1943.04.03 "The Pig has Drunk all the Boobytraps" by Cecil Keeling

1943.04.03 “The Pig has Drunk all the Boobytraps”
by Cecil Keeling (1912-1976)
9 x 8 in., pen and ink on art board
Coppola Collection

Cecil Keeling was an English designer and illustrator. He produced a varied range of work, including political and editorial cartoons, scraperboard, lithography, linocuts, and wood engravings.

April 2, 1943 (CBS Report)

Horrific Booby Traps Left Behind in Nazi Retreat

Right now, the big events in Russia are occurring behind, and not at, the front. The Red Army the other day turned up something new in booby traps. They entered one recaptured village and found that every house had been mined.

Nazi bombs were disguised as everyday objects that were packed with hidden explosive devices: chocolate bars, thermos flasks, cans of motor oil, canned peas, cough drops, lumps of coal, a shoe bomb, a tin of Smedley’s English red dessert plums.

Another cartoon stabbing at the inept members of the German Army.