Portraits rom NAS Bunker HIll, 1945

This is an attempt to resurrect a fellow who may or may not be alive today. We are pretty sure the guy who drew the original pencil portrait at Naval Air Station Bunker Hill in Spring of 1944. It was in a sheaf of drawings he did of someof the young men who were preparing to invade Japan, the nation that had struck the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor only three years before.

Vic has been playing with these along with the AI prgram ChatGPT. Some of the drawing were smudged a bit from being manhandled across a dozen or more offices in our or five states. He asked the machine to simply clean up the image, going rom smudged white to color. It is interesting to see the faces come alive again.

This is “Pop” Bullard as Vic’s Dad knew him in 1945, some 81 years ago.