During World War I, the U.S. Government’s Committee for Public Information employed artists, who followed troops into France with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war. Commissioned as officers in the Corps of Engineers, the artists were assigned to create artwork in a variety of media to show the war to Americans back home.
Official American military artist Capt. Harvey Dunn made this drawing. It was selected for publication in the New York Tribune in March 1919.
The original description reads: A hand grenade is thrown through the doorway of a dugout into the midst of a group of German soldiers. This is one in many incidents in the cleaning out of the Germans in captured territory.
