Battlefield artists are quickly fading in relevance as digital cameras become smaller, more accurate, and cost effective.
Old hand-crafted, battlefield art, though, often characterizes best the antiquated past of armed conflict — war has since become a speedy affair, quick as the shutter of a photographer's camera.
Check out this blast from the past art, as a time machine to the way war used to be waged ...
Until the arrival of dedicated units like the US Army Air Corps "Burma Bridge Busters," low level attacks on Japanese supply lines were carried out by Royal Air Force Hurricane fighter-bombers like the ones shown taking out a bridge here.
Outraged when his guns jammed and determined to take down his foe, Parker Dupouy slammed his fighter into the Japanese plane to take it down.
Way less precise, way more aggressive.
The US was caught so off-guard by the attack on Pearl Harbor that few pilots made it into the air: Lt. Joe Moore was one of them.
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