American Doughboy" statue. Mr. Gikas, founder and president of Venus Bronze Works, Inc., Center for Conservation of Detroit, is in his studio in Detroit, Michigan conserving E. M. Viquesney's "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statue that resides in Swanton, Ohio. The sculpture was one of several donated as a gift by France to U.S. cities that had lost many soldiers during World War I.
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