Roy Lichtenstein

My father and Roy Lichtenstein were teamed together during WWII as they were members of the 69th Infantry Division Engineer Battalion. They worked together on maps, scale models and art services for the division.
The 69th is a famous combat division that traveled all throughout Europe during the war on the front lines. The 69th met up with Russian troops for the first time at the Remagen Bridge. Roy Lichtenstein after leaving the service developed several years later his famous career as a pop artist and my father went to work for Ford Motor Company in their Dream Room as an advanced stylist illustrator and designer. My father was responsible for designing prototypes and auto show cars.
Many of his design elements were later used in actual full line production automobiles. For more info google "Roy Lichtenstein 69th Division". There were a few artists in the 69th division and Roy at the time was still very much a student. He is now considered one of the greatest contemporary artists of all time and history was made. I have a great affection for the work of the contemporary master because of my dad's connection to him and growing up hearing stories of good times and also the toughest of times of surviving war. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the generation that fought the war and protected our freedom. We often do not think of great artists as soldiers and here was a man who was just a young guy drafted into the army to serve his country. He did and as well my father did and all those brave young soldiers that went day to day.