Pulling them all together

Juneau artist Daniel DeRoux has a favorite piece of public art that he tries to visit whenever he is in Fairbanks. It’s the Lend-Lease Memorial in Griffin Park, a pair of bronze statues depicting World War II-era pilots, one Russian and one American, who delivered airplanes to European fronts in the years before the United States officially entered the war. The bronze men stand on a pedestal bundled in vintage flight suits with their eyes to the horizon. One has an outstretched arm. He’s pointing as if he just caught a glimpse of aircraft approaching.