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Gilbert Bundy

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22: 138:, when a Japanese shell exploded, leaving him trapped under four dead Marines. The wrecked craft drifted onto a coral reef that was within range of Japanese gunners on the island, so Bundy had to hide beneath the bodies for the remainder of a long day, as enemy bullets and shells hit the craft or landed nearby. Once night fell, he swam away through shark-infested waters, and as Hearst newspapers reported, "He was believed dead for three days. His reappearance startled his Marine mates." 106:
magazine", which began publishing in 1933. According to Martin Plimmer, "Bundy's work was painstakingly researched, the result of numerous life studies, the final version being drawn from memory to add spontaneity."
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Bundy's career started in Kansas City, working for an engraving company, and then he moved to New York City in 1929, to draw cartoons for
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Bundy was sent home to the US to recuperate, and returned to painting illustrations for "light-hearted romantic stories" for
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On November 21, 1955, on the anniversary of his Tarawa trauma, he killed himself in his apartment in New York City's
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magazines. He killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a deeply traumatic experience as a war artist in the
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Biographical sketches of cartoonists & illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress
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and other magazines, but he "remained haunted by his wartime experience."
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magazines. Bundy's "stylish character studies helped establish
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Illustration for Sanfordized in the Ladies' Home Journal
Sanforized
Esquire
Life
Judge
The Saturday Evening Post
Battle of Tarawa
Centralia, Illinois
Winfield, Kansas
Life
Judge
Esquire
war artist
Hearst newspapers
King Features Syndicate
landing craft
Battle of Tarawa
The Saturday Evening Post
Hotel Le Marquis



"Gilbert Bundy"




Biographical sketches of cartoonists & illustrators in the Swann Collection of the Library of Congress
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