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Up front by bill mauldin 19455/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But it was because of Willie and Joe that he was remembered so fondly.Īlmost every Veterans Day, the late Charles Schulz would honor Mauldin by having Snoopy, as the World War I flying ace, toast the cartoonist with a mug of root beer. It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln, his hands covering his face, at the Lincoln Memorial. Many Americans remember Mauldin's cartoon in the Chicago Sun-Times, published after President Kennedy's assassination. What endeared Mauldin to the soldiers is that he was one of them, spending most of his time with the 45th Division. ![]() From 1940 to 1945, the unshaven, slump-shouldered soldiers mucked their way through Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while mocking everything from their orders to their equipment. Published in Stars and Stripes and other military newspapers, they kept his fellow soldiers entertained and turned Mauldin into an icon. ![]() Mauldin made Willie and Joe the voice of the World War II infantryman. While Mauldin's entire body of work is impressive, it's his earliest work - the drawings of GIs Willie and Joe - that earned him the highest praise. Another significant part of the World War II generation is gone now that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin is dead at the age of 81. ![]()
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