Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam staring at a map of Italian islands where a U.S. soldier is stepping. He says to wait for the bombers to "soften it up."
Published in the Chicago Tribune in 1943.
Pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper affixed to board.
Original in University of Missouri Special Collections, John Tinney McCutcheon Collection.
Digitized on February 2018. Equipment: Zeutschel OS 15000. Scanning software: Omniscan v.12.8 SR2 (2689). Image specifications: 400 dpi, color. Access copies: tiffs with LZW compression, rotated and cropped.
Title from caption.
