![]() ![]() ![]() George Patton, who threatened to throw Mauldin in jail for his characters’ indolence. Willie and Joe became soldiers’ heroes and anathema to brass such as Gen. , Mauldin created his signature characters, the weary and disheveled infantrymen Willie and Joe. In 1944, while on staff at the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes Deployed to North Africa in 1943, Mauldin participated in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Mauldin then became the 45th Division News After studying at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for one year, he joined the newly mobilized 45th Infantry Division of the Arizona National Guard. Mauldin (1921–2003) grew up in Depression-era New Mexico in a dysfunctional family. ) eloquently memorializes cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who won fame as “the leading spokesman for the American combat soldier” during World War II, in this authoritative biography. ![]()
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