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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
John Joseph Floherty Jr.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

John Joseph Floherty Jr.

American, 1907 - 1977
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Floherty studied at Columbia University, the Art Students League, and the Grand Central School of Art and worked as a painter, commercial artist, and cartoonist. During the war, he served as an officer in the Coast Guard. He created recruitment posters, illustrated Coast Guard publications, and was a combat artist at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.