Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Is Nimby May to 194? the stars and stripes Pali selected Best of the year a Don t get combat pay Catoc a Don t fight.0 fresh spirited american troops flushed with Victory bringing in thousands of hungry ragged Battle Roeary prisoners news item they must have infiltrated during the night Wiiilie a no Joe put Mauldin in top spot the cartoon which the pulitzer prize committee selected As top award for 1944 was Bill Mauldin s ironic fresh spirited american troops flushed with Victory bringing in thousands of hungry. Ragged Battle weary prisoners the text of a news item. Mauldin joined the stars and stripes nov. 1943 in Naples after a couple of years in the states North Africa Sicily and Italy with his Oklahoma bred 45th inf. Div. The late Ernie Pyle who was quite fond of the 24-year-old cartoonist called him the Best in this or any other War and helped him get his stuff syndicated at Home. Mauldin a Reserve and modesty Are shown in the title of his cartoons. Quot up front with Mauldin some of his advisors thought the cartoon Quot radio the old Man Well be late on account of a thousand mile Detour should be entitled Quot up front by Mauldin Quot but the oklahoman walked at the change in preposition on the grounds that he was Only a time to of course the prize winning up front with Mauldin cartoon gets top Billing on this Page but the stars and stripes thinks All of Mauldin a stuff should win a prize so Here Are some of his other drawings. Time visitor not a steady Cus Tomer at the front. Before he was Well know Mauldin was the butt of a letter from a fellow Soldier who recommended that the cartoonist get up to the front he capitalized on. The stars and stripes published the letter in full with the editor s note that Mauldin was acquainted with the front and had been wounded while with the very com Pany k of the45th dives 180th regt.1 from which the letter had originated