Word: mauldin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie was born into the 45th Infantry Division, where his creator, Private Bill Mauldin, also served. Willie had a sidekick, Joe. Together Willie and Joe slogged from Italy to Germany...
General Eisenhower had effectively ended the coddling of distinguished German captives by susceptible U.S. generals (TIME, May 27). But an eloquent sermon on the subject by famed G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was still news when it was syndicated in the U.S. last week...
Victory in Europe did something to two untidy G.I.s that morale officers or spit-&-polish generals could never do. Last week Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed Willie and Joe washed their dirty faces. (Joe, on being scoured up, proved to look startlingly like button-nosed Mauldin himself...
...future of Joe and Willie presumably depends on their creator's future. The Mediterranean Stars & Stripes, which runs Mauldin's cartoons days before they reach the 129 U.S. newspapers which reprint them, changed the standing head from "Up Front" to "Sweating It Out." If Mauldin gets his way, the caption will shortly be changed again, first to "Going Home," then to "Back Home." With a wife & child, five battle-stars and a Purple Heart, Cartoonist Mauldin has 127 points-far more than the 85 he needs to get his Army discharge. In Rome last week, after five years...
...45th slogged north through the Apennines for four months, with virtually no rest. Its infantrymen were the men Sergeant Bill Mauldin, himself a 45th Division soldier, drew in his cartoons-unshaven, unkempt, unbeatable. They were pulled out of the line only after they had cleared the approaches to Cassino, given a few days rest. Then they were sent into the smoky, battered beachhead at Anzio. A headquarters commandant grimly noted: "In the last months I have seen six battalion commanders come...