New York Artist is Coast Guard Invasion Veteran. Coast Guard Combat Artist H. B. Vestal of New York City served on an infantry landing craft in the liberation landings on the Normandy coast. Sketching the events of battle as he saw them under fire, Coast Guardsman Vestal, now a Chief Specialist, has produced some of the outstanding art of amphibious warfare. For three weeks, he was with the Coast Guard-manned LCI (L) flotilla off the battle-torn French Coast. Before the war, Vestal studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts, the National Academy, and Pratt Institute. He had served three and a hal
New York Artist is Coast Guard Invasion Veteran. Coast Guard Combat Artist H. B. Vestal of New York City served on an infantry landing craft in the liberation landings on the Normandy coast. Sketching the events of battle as he saw them under fire, Coast Guardsman Vestal, now a Chief Specialist, has produced some of the outstanding art of amphibious warfare. For three weeks, he was with the Coast Guard-manned LCI (L) flotilla off the battle-torn French Coast. Before the war, Vestal studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts, the National Academy, and Pratt Institute. He had served three and a half years in the merchant marine. His wife lives at 29 W. 12th Street in New York.
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