62 WORLD WAR II
“WE GET BORED
AS HELL” between
battles, Cook wrote.
At right he captured a
quiet moment: two men
in camp headquarters,
one writing a letter,
the other hunched
over a typewriter.
Cook scrawled
reference notes for
color in the margins
in case he later chose
to work these images
into a painting.COOK SKETCHED
PXOWLSOH6RXWK3DFLÞF
islands; the ink-and-
paper work below is
of navy ships off New
Georgia in the Solomon
Islands. Other far-flung
destinations Cook
visited include the
New Hebrides (now
Vanuatu) and Phoenix
islands.BRUSH WITH DEATH