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Title: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: W7LPNRICK on February 08, 2012, 09:18:52 PM

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Title: Re: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: eagl on February 08, 2012, 10:15:40 PM

I had a book collection of Mauldin's comics when I was growing up.  It was loosely organized by date and theater, with some historical background blurbs accompanying some of the comics.  Great stuff, funny as hell even to civilians but even better to anyone who's been there done that, shot the rat between the eyes with a .45 (still one of my favorites but now I imagine the rat is a huge camel spider and the .45 is a 9mm beretta).

Title: Re: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: Rino on February 09, 2012, 10:01:52 AM

     My favorite Mauldin cartoon is one of an old cavalry Sgt with a jeep with a broken axle holding a .45 to the hood
getting ready to put it out of it's misery  :D

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v7Nd6pidYeQ/S_SD3ZONm5I/AAAAAAAAC8w/js-B9tzxYxA/s400/wj3.JPG)

Title: Re: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: oakranger on February 09, 2012, 11:14:32 AM

Is that a P-51 with four 20mm?

Title: Re: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: Maverick on February 09, 2012, 11:45:55 AM

Mauldins work and the Sad Sack 'toons were some of the things I grew up reading. One of the bennies of growing up in a just post WW2 time.

(http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/-images/2009/08/20/48606/size0-army.mil-48606-2009-08-21-070832.jpg)

Title: Re: WWII Willie & Joe Cartoonist
Post by: Ack-Ack on February 09, 2012, 02:55:18 PM

Wasn't there a WW2 movie based on his cartoons?


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