![]() ![]() "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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