Richard M. Gibney
	Gibney grew up in Saratoga Springs, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University before being drafted into the Marines at the start of the war. Originally trained as a demolitions engineer and later part of the Marine Art Program, Gibney saw and painted combat in many battles in the South Pacific. He took part in five "D-Day" landing, including Tarawa and Saipan, and was a survivor of the "Westlock Tragedy" in which the ship he was on was heavily damaged in an explosion. He returned to the U.S. after the war and continued his art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then in Europe as part of a travel scholarship. Moved by his European study of stained glass and frescoes, Givney designed and created the stunning stained glass windows for the Marines Parris Island chapel. He also created 20 public murals in the United States. In 1993 he completed what he calls The Oddyssey -- a semi-autobiographical series of 52 paintings that detail the saga of a young marine in WWII. He now resides in Rockport, Maryland. Richard Gibney has his own Web site: <http://www.richardmgibney.com/>.
Paintings Leaving Home Assault Engineers On Deck Sketch of Dead Soldiers Landing on Tarawa Down the Nets The Last Full Measure

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