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Willie and Joe
Willie and Joe are stock characters representing US infantry soldiers, drawn by Bill Mauldin from 1940 until 1946, with occasional infrequent drawings until 1998.
==History==
Mauldin was an 18 year old soldier training with the 45th Infantry Division in 1940. He cartooned part-time for the camp newspaper. Near the end of 1941 the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred and the USA was brought into World War II. Mauldin was sent off to combat, influencing his cartoons, which gradually became darker and more realistic in their depiction of the weariness of the enduring miseries of war.〔http://fantagraphics.com/flog/willie-joe-the-wwii-years-by-bill-mauldin/〕 The bristles on their faces grew and the eyes - "too old for those young bodies", as Mauldin put it 〔http://fantagraphics.com/flog/willie-joe-the-wwii-years-by-bill-mauldin/〕- showed how much Willie and Joe suffered. In most cartoons they were shown in rain, mud and dire conditions, while they contemplated the whole situation.
While Mauldin was praised for his realistic depictions of what most soldiers felt during war-time, he was less popular with some officers. General George S. Patton, Jr. in particular felt offended by the cartoons. 〔http://fantagraphics.com/flog/willie-joe-the-wwii-years-by-bill-mauldin/〕 Mauldin was ordered to meet him in March 1945 in Patton's quarters in Luxembourg, where Patton complained about the scruffiness of the characters and blamed Mauldin for disrespecting the army and "trying to incite a mutiny". 〔http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/mauldin/mauldin-atwar.html〕 But Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander European Theater, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone, because he felt that Mauldin's cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. Mauldin told an interviewer later, "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes."〔Bill Mauldin, ''The Brass Ring'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972〕 Still, The War Department supported their syndication,〔Bill Mauldin, edited by Todd DePastino, ''Willie & Joe: The War Years'' p 13 ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1〕 not only because they helped publicize the ground forces but also to show the grim and bitter side of war, which helped show that victory would not be easy.〔Bill Mauldin, edited by Todd DePastino, ''Willie & Joe: The War Years'' p 15 ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1〕 Stephen Ambrose, author of ''Band of Brothers'', praised Mauldin's work: "More than anyone else, save only Ernie Pyle, he caught the trials and travails of the GI. For anyone who wants to know what it was like to be an infantryman in World War II, this is the place to start — and finish."
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