Willie and Joe
#1

Al Kincer will be sending me some Bill Mauldin cartoons from the war. Here's the first in the line:

 

:pdt12:

 

Nonsense. S-2 reported that machine gun silenced hours ago. Stop wiggling your fingers at me.

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#2

Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?

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#3

Awright, awright, it's a general. You wanna pass in review?

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#4

I guess maybe we better wake him!

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#5

It's best not to ask paratroopers about saluting. They always ask where you got your boots.

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#6

Anyone wanna trade a cocoa for two lemonades?

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#7

I don't sign NOTHIN' without reading it first!

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#8

Rain on the roof?

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#9

These are great, Marion. I always did like Bill Mauldin's cartoons. If you look closely at the one referencing the general, you'll see a close resemblance to George Patton. There was no love lost between those two. Patton wanted to court-martial Mauldin. Ike said to leave him alone, he was good for the troops. Ike won.

 

Marilyn

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#10

One of my dear vet friends, Dick Feitz, has offered to send me his copy of Mauldin's "Sicily Sketch Book". I am very excited about adding it to my ever-growing collection.

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
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