“I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains.”

— Bill Mauldin

Up Front (1945)

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American editorial cartoonist 1921–2003

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