![]() ![]() ![]() in that foxhole," Ambrose explained, "was letting his buddies down. Kanfer notes that historian Stephen Ambrose described the soldiers of the Battle of the Bulge in much the same way. But they stay in their wet holes and fight, and then they climb out and crawl through minefields and fight some more." Mauldin wrote about Willie and Joe saying: "Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other. I wanna see a critter I kin feel sorry fer." I already got a Purple Heart." In another, Joe, peeking out from his tent at a puppy shivering in the rain, says: "Let 'em in. In one, Willie remarks to a medic: "Just give me the aspirin. ![]() His drawings depicted, writes Kanfer, "two 'dogfaces,' unshaven battle-weary men known only as Willie and Joe." Willie's and Joe's remarks vividly illustrated the lives of the common soldier. Soon his cartoons appeared in Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper. Having learned to draw from a correspondence course and later at the Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, he began contributing cartoons to the 45th Division newspaper. You may, however, remember his drawing of the Lincoln Memorial statue with its head in its hands, an act of mourning the day after John F. Willie and Joe In a recent City Journal retrospective of three American cartoonists, Stefan Kanfer recalled one whose name might not be familiar: Bill Mauldin. ![]()
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