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...Portrait of G.I.s At the end of World War II, TIME did a cover story on Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin and the fellow soldiers he depicted for American military newspapers [June 18, 1945]. Private Mauldin's famous drawings showed folks at home what it was like to be in the trenches. Some of the descriptions applied to Mauldin's 45th Infantry Division soldiers, Willie and Joe, would also fit the experiences of the American service members chosen as TIME's 2003 Person of the Year...
...Willie and Joe, cartoonist BILL MAULDIN, who died last week at 81, created an unlikely and imperishable pair of American icons. These unshaven, hollow-eyed, grimy World War II infantry dogfaces appeared in the pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled...
...DIED. BILL MAULDIN, 81, American army sergeant turned Pulitzer prizewinning cartoonist; in Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime...