The new stamp, issued on March 31, shows a smiling, young Mauldin with his two creations just behind him. He participated in the Sicily and Italy invasions in 1943 all the while drawing his cartoons of two unkempt, bearded dogface soldiers going by the names, Willie and Joe. In 1940 he enlisted in the US Army and remained an enlisted man for the duration of the war lasting from Decemto Septem(formal surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri). His interest in art prompted him to take a correspondence course in cartooning and then to enter the Academy of Fine Art in Chicago. William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was born in Mountain Park, New Mexico on October 29, 1921. For the second time the United States Post Office issued a stamp honoring the most famous front-line artist of WWII.
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