In fact, many combat veterans said they couldn’t have made it through the hell without a daily chuckle from the famous anti-heroes. Not surprisingly, the biting and honest humour was a huge hit with the rank-and-file and helped keep soldiers’ spirits up during some of the conflict’s darkest days. The popular single-panel cartoon focused on the trials and tribulations of a pair of bearded and beat up riflemen as they survived life on the front lines. was the creative genius behind Willie and Joe, perhaps the best-loved comic strip to come out of World War Two. The baby-faced infantryman from Phoenix, Ariz. That was a just one of the many fictional yet real-world-inspired wartime moments that were amusingly immortalized by William Henry “Bill” Mauldlin, history’s most famous ‘fighting cartoonist.’ “Yesterday, you saved my life and I swore I’d pay you back,” one says to the other. PICTURE TWO SOAKING AND EXHAUSTED GIs squatting in a mud-filled ditch. was the creative genius behind Willie and Joe, perhaps the best-loved comic strip to come out of World War Two.” (Image by Bill Maudlin) “A baby-faced infantryman from Phoenix, Ariz. Just about every American soldier in the European Theater read the popular Stars and Stripes comic strip “Willie and Joe”.
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