European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse A u Idin continued spirited american troops flashed with Victory Are bringing in thousands of hungry ragged Battle weary prisoners. News item a do face gets just As tired advancing As he. Does retreating and he gets shot at. Both ways. After a few Days of Battle the victorious yank who has been sweeping ahead does t look any prettier than the sullen Superman he he thinks the food Over there was swell. He s glad to he Home but he misses the thrill and excitement of Battle. You May quote. I think i would have sworn to having h and a steady diet of ice Cream and Steak if it would have helped my prospects of getting a discharge ". The major went in with me to meet the re porters and he hovered nearby to help Tell the truth in Case i should forget a would t git so tired if a did t carry extra stuff. Throw the joker outta yer Decka look everything Over and try to find some thing else you can throw away to make the Load on the Blister a Little Ligh Ter. You chuckle As you remember the and you saw in the tattered Magazine showing the infantryman going into. Battle1 with a Gas mask and full Field pack.". He s right Joe. When we. Ain t fighting we should ack like Sowers. No Button or Shoelace escaped the eyes of the maps arid officers in Naples the Doggie was snapped up the instant he stepped off the boat coming Back from Anzio. One Soldier. Had been arrested and jailed for wearing his com Bat infantry badge. The maps did t know whar it was.". Via Allez How the hell do a say it in the poverty stricken kids in America Are in rather better shape than european Chil Dren who have been robbed of every vestige of their innocence and naivete by the s things outside Hoys am t still a Zvy hero or a Drain on the taxpayer the Gap Between citizen and Veteran has widened in Many ways. Demagogues have winning ways especially with the Man Olio has no one else to whom he can turn in his troubles Early Back Home work paralleled 6up front Willie and Joe and the brass from Looten its to generals All experienced letdown setbacks surprises sometimes with a Little bitterness \. Cartoons and accompanying text on this and following Pajes from up front and Back the cartoon in the upper left hand Corner of this Page won Bill Maul Din the pulitzer prize. It along wit the Many others in up front earned him a sizeable Fortune and reputation at the time up front came out Maul Din was an infantryman by vocation and a cartoonist by avocation his pre War years All eighteen of them had been spent except for a Brief whirl at j Art school in Chicago in new Mexico and Arizona. He signed up in the new Mexico National guard in 1940 and the next Day his. Outfit was called up for Federal duty becoming a part of the forty fifth division. Mauldin became a private in a Rifle company but when Hewan t polishing his my or the Barrack floor he kept at his cartooning. he efforts found their Way into his 12 outfit s paper the 45th division news and by the time the forty fifth went overseas he was assigned to the cartoons on life at the front in Sicily and Italy where the forty fifth played a prominent part attracted at Tention outside the division and before lung his work was being reprinted in the e Mediterranean stars and was loaned to. The stripes in Early 1944 and soon his cartoons were being reprinted j n stateside , wide Appeal of his work at that time Lias always rather baffled Mauldin h and been particularly surprised when the drawings seemed to meet with avs to a reception he wrote because i had not drawn pictures about the army in general with an Eye to pleasing everybody but had drawn for and about weekend March 13. 194s i of
