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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...
...carry the dirtiest, heaviest burden of any war. They are the heroes whom the Army this week honors on Infantry Day (June 15)-the anniversary of the day that George Washington was named commander in chief of the Continental Army. Through Willie and Joe, Soldier-Artist Bill Mauldin has honored them...
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...