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Like other G.I.s, famed Soldier Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has found the transition to civilian life hard. So have his once begrimed subjects, Willie and Joe. In uniform, their moods and deeds had authority because thousands shared them. In civvies, they were on their...
...highest praise to Mauldin, one of the great reporters of this war, whose efforts may conceivably help stave off future conflict...
Along with Mauldin [TiME, June 18], I have chased the war from Sicily to Germany, and every mile has been the lighter because of him. But you have missed the reason why G.I.s are so fanatically for him. I bitch and the other tired old men around me bitch, but we feel that none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base...
...Bill Mauldin, too, hoped to settle down as a civilian, some day to be the same carefree guy he was a few years ago. But, like Willie and Joe, he never really would be quite the same...
...Bruce Bairnsfather's "Old Bill," best-known cartoon soldier of World War I ("Well, if yer knows of a better 'ole, go to it"), is the spiritual uncle of Mauldin's Willie...