Willie and joe by bill mauldin6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() It's almost full." And in another, Willie tells a medic: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. In another, the two are about to jump a down-in-the-mouth German soldier walking by with a bottle of liquor. ![]() In one drawing, soldiers are marching, bone-weary. From 1940 to 1945, the laconic pair of unshaven, slump-shouldered soldiers slogged their way through battle-scarred Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while sarcastically mocking everything from their orders to their equipment and even their allies. With Willie and Joe, Mauldin became the voice of the World War II infantryman. It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln, his hands covering his face, at the Lincoln Memorial. It was at the Chicago Sun-Times where Mauldin drew one of his most famous cartoons, published after President Kennedy's assassination. Mauldin was one of the pre-eminent editorial cartoonists of the 20th century, writing and drawing 16 books. "It's really good that he's not suffering anymore," he said. Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, said Andy Mauldin, one of his seven sons. ![]()
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