Saturday, August 18, 2012

22 April 1959 Afterburner

There were three new graphics in the 22 April 1959 Afterburner: Two from AFPS by Jack Lebo, and one locally drawn but unsigned portrait. Enjoy!
Sketch of the outgoing 6102d Air Base Wing commander from Yokota Air Base, Col James E. Johnston. Too bad it wasn't signed, though I would guess it was by the newspaper's staff artist Mr. Manabe Hideo.
The AFPS SOPs by Jack Lebo just keep coming. This one's good, but really dated since USO dances no longer occur, but were apparently still a part of military life in 1959. Also, do people still ask for dances (that's the joke of course -- instead of saying "May I have the next dance?", he's asking for the intermssion for some unspecified reason that we're supposed to guess). 
Now this is new. Here we have AFPS' Jack Lebo doing a sports-page portrait of an athlete from Alaska that was distributed to US military papers around the world. Very nice, and it shows Lebo's depth of ability. 

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