Wednesday, January 08, 2025

World War II cartoons from Naval Hospital Long Beach, CA newspaper

Scans of 'The Aorta,' the Naval Hospital Long Beach, CA newspaper are going into the Medical Heritage Library. Runs of the newspaper are in the National Library of Medicine and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery's history office archive (which is scanning them). It's likely that no one has really seen these cartoons since they were published 80 years ago.


 October 1944
 
November 1944

Fall 1944 issues had "Our Little Helper" comic panel by Lloyd Hawthorne. December 1944 featured a cartoon by, and picture of, William Abshire.
 
 
In 1945, the comic panel shifts to being "Roughly Speaking" by A. G. Santomauro. These are from January.
 


 
I don't know if any of these men continued as cartoonists after the war.

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