![]() ![]() The solders' stand-ins, Mauldin's everyman heroes, were a couple of long-suffering, wisecracking infantrymen named Willie and Joe. with Mauldin." (In person, Patton once chewed out the cartoonist so severely that Eisenhower, a fan, had to intervene.) But enlisted men adored his portrayal of soldiers as unshaven grunts stuck in an apocalypse. Generals raged against the artist's irreverent daily Stars & Stripes strip, "Up Front. "He's lookin' fer a fight."īorn poor and part-Apache in New Mexico, Mauldin joined the 45th Infantry in 1940 and won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945, at age 23. "That can't be no combat man," one of his characters says, watching a cocky GI pass by. This image of the slouched, tired "dogface" comes in part from the pen of cartoonist Bill Mauldin. We honor them because they slogged through mud and took care of their buddies in a conflict that - despite their fierce dedication - they didn't relish. ![]() We don't picture World War II soldiers as ramrod-straight, clean and bright-eyed. ![]() The image of the slouched, tired "dogface" comes in part from the pen of cartoonist Bill Mauldin. ![]()
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