Fat officer and driver standing outside his jeep admiring a mountain scenic spot:
"Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men? "
Dad had that book and I picked it up about a year ago, always loved it. Mauldin drew the Brooklyn Dodgers “Bum” on a lot of their programs.
My Dad was a good artist and at Pearl Harbor that Dec day.
In the folks 1st home after the war in 1945 he painted a mural size of a Mauldin page on the cellar wall, 6 feet high at the bottom of the stairs.
It read, Don’t startle him Joe, its almost full”.
We had the book Wille and Joe it was taken from around the house and none of us know what happened to it ? It would be a collectors item these days.
Mauldin always was about provoking class warfare between enlisted soldiers and officers.
Ernie Pyle he wasn’t. Pyle saluted all ranks in the combat theaters.
After WWII Mauldin boasted that he did so depict a general officer favorably in one of his cartoons. It was retired Gen. Omar Bradley as the civilian head of the VA. Whoop ti doo.