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May 29, 1944 – May 29, 2024
Today marks the 80th anniversary of Gregor Duncan’s passing near Anzio, when the Jeep his was traveling in was struck by a German 88 shell. Duncan and Sgt. Jack Raymond were sent to Anzio, to gather material for a new series of drawings on the former beachhead. Raymond survived, but Duncan died due to injuries suffered from shell fragments. Please take a moment to think about Gregor Duncan, and all that might have been had he not been killed. Bill Mauldin summed up Duncan’s death well in his book, The Brass Ring: “I’ve lost friends who were ordinary people and just wanted to live and raise a family and pay…