Dog Fight Over the Trenches, by Horace Pippin, 1935.


A white mud trench in the foreground houses two figures. A black cross stands symbolic in front of the trench. In the sky are fighter planes, some falling to the earth in flames. Many more trenches are visible in the background.
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Dog Fight Over the Trenches, by Horace Pippin, 1935. Pippin wrote about the front-line trenches, "I will say this much, I say no man can do it again. He may have the will but his body cannot stand it. I could tell a new man every time I seen him, for he would duck every time a shell came over. He would be ducking all day long until he would get used to it." PMA