dark missions

17:19 Oct 17, 2016 

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12:01 Oct 17, 2016 

hone her techniques

10:07 Oct 17, 2016 

... she was accepted and assigned to "Dark Ships": transports that ran with all lights off between Australia and England carrying war goods and soldiers one way, and wounded soldiers and trade goods on the return voyage. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kenny

10:02 Oct 17, 2016 

“It becomes this heritage not only for its prose. Its drawings contain, above all others done by Americans in war, the philosophy of conflict. Thomason draws his war at the point of the individual resolve to kill or be killed, and every line of the bodies that he depicts is agonized with this resolve. The pictures are inextricably woven into the text in a wonderful stroke of two talents of the artist found within the gift of one man, and that man a soldier first of all. A professional soldier, enamored of his calling of death, and yet more frank in his delineation of the faults of his mistress than a thousand enemies of her, but unwavering in his devotion to the men that serve her dark missions of waste and destruction.” - https://goo.gl/74LnIR