![]() ![]() ![]() 45 caliber pistol to the engine, preparing to put it out of its misery. In what Mauldin described as his favorite cartoon, a cavalry sergeant whose beloved jeep had a broken axle covers his eyes as he holds his. "Aim between the eyes, Willie," Joe advised. But one such night, Willie and Joe came face to face with a large rat. "It's almost full."Ī good night would be when they got to sleep in a barn, especially if it had dry, warm straw inside. "Don't startle 'im, Joe," Willie implored. Once, while hidden in bushes, they spied a tipsy German soldier carrying a bottle of liquor. ![]() "Is there one for enlisted men?")Ī good day for Willie and Joe was when they stumbled across a bottle of cognac and could get happily tight. "Beautiful sunrise," a major remarks to a captain. ![]() (In one cartoon, two officers are admiring a brilliant sky at dawn. They resented the privileges and entitlement that officers enjoyed. They hated the Army and they hated the war. They had slept too many nights in rain-filled foxholes they had been given too many orders by fresh-faced second lieutenants who had no combat experience. Willie and Joe were not Hollywood heroes. His single-frame cartoons appeared in military newspapers, including Stars and Stripes. Mauldin was the soldier-cartoonist who created Willie and Joe, a pair of bedraggled dogfaces who slogged across Europe, dodging bullets, shrapnel and regimental regulations. named Bill Mauldin continues to make news. As the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, a little G.I. ![]()
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