When we did not have these smartphones with their special cameras, the possibility of being able to safeguard a specific moment was through the talent of a cartoonist or painter. Photography has also been able to capture those moments, but in certain moments, such as World War II, a pencil and a notebook can be the two best tools to capture those moments lived.
This is what Victor Lundy, an architecture student who enlisted in the military during World War II, thought. Instead of abandoning his more creative side, the young soldier decided to document their experiences on the battlefield through a series of notebooks. In them, he recorded everything from soldiers killed in combat, air strikes and everything we know from documentaries of that war.
Not only did he stay in the most warlike of those moments lived, but he knew how to bring to the present memory what they are soldiers resting or playing to games during their free time.
His drawings, created between May and November 1944, show us a more personal and intimate touch of one of the wars bloodiest in history. Lundy, in 2009, and at the age of 92, donated his notebooks to the Library of Congress. All the eight notebooks have been digitally scanned since then and, that is why we can access them today to view them online.
It is the great wonder that the network of networks means, that we can access from the palm of our hand, from a mobile device, to those moments lived for that soldier who wanted to transcribe them so that in the future, anyone, now thousands of people, will be witnesses to that cruel and bloody war.
You can find more information from Library of Congress to access the rest of his drawings and memory.
We leave you with the sketches of Oscar de la Renta.