He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for a cartoon showing battle-weary troops quite the opposite of the description given in the caption: “Fresh American troops flushed with victory. His cartoons of that period have appeared in several collections, the best known being Up Front (1945), which also contained a prose description of his experiences. He covered the fighting in Sicily, at Salerno (where he was wounded), and at other locations in Italy, France, and Germany. In 1943 he shipped with his division to Sicily, where he joined the Mediterranean edition of the U.S. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for infantry training.

SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!īill Mauldin, byname of William Henry Mauldin, (born October 29, 1921, Mountain Park, New Mexico, U.S.-died January 22, 2003, Newport Beach, California), American cartoonist who gained initial fame for his sardonic drawings of the life of the World War II combat soldier and who later became well known for editorial cartoons dealing with a wide range of political and social issues.Īfter studying cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Mauldin returned to the Southwest, where he worked as a cartoonist before enlisting in the U.S.

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