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magazine depicting "strafing targets as they appear to the fighter pilot through the transparent rectangle of his reflector gunsight."
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During the New Deal, Billings created a number of murals on commissions overseen by the
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His painting style shows an interest in the mechanical and machinery, as well as an attraction to surrealism.
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Billings attended St. Paul's School in
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