Group,
 Frank's artistic talents were first identified back in high school.  He won an 
art contest in the Allentown school district, and he was intending to go to art 
school after he graduated.  He started working at Mack Trucks to make money to 
pay for art school.  When the war started he joined the Navy.  When the Navy 
found out he could weld, a skill he learned at Mack, they made him a SeaBee.  
Frank's art talents were evident in his modeling beyond the painting of the 
backdrops.  I always said that Frank knew what to put in to a model so that it 
appeared more detailed than it was.  This skill is evident in all great artists.
 Jamie Bothwell
 

 

---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote:

 Further to Frank Titman's experience on Iwo Jima, I recall from a video 
interview Ken Zieska and I did with Frank a few years ago that he was also a 
the battalion's newspaper illustrator - using humor to bring a comical eye to 
every day drudgery on Sulphur Island. It was a skill he later brought to early 
S Scale magazines and even in helping design the NASG "couplers" logo.  
 Steve Doyle
 Twin Cities



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