Three of the soldiers signed their names next to Dube’s: Kenneth Reid, Joseph Joner Kratky and Joe Orbe, who added his nickname, “Solid Jackson.” On all the drawings, Dube put the month, year and his signature in the lower right corner. Dube drew no backgrounds and barely sketched out his subjects’ shoulders, but he took care to capture his subjects’ eyes and faces. The sure-handed sketches mostly show young men looking pensively into the distance, though a few crack a smile. Stan Dube, who died in 2009, was drafted into the Army while studying architecture at Syracuse University, and he put his drawing skills to use by sketching pencil- and charcoal-on-paper portraits of his fellow soldiers while the 27th Division was stationed in Hawaii in 1943. Dube found the signed sketches in the attic of his sister’s home in Mississippi early last year while they were going through their father’s belongings.
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