Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Willie, Joe, and Bill in WWII

(You'll Need Kleenex or a Handkerchief! I Did... Don D.)

Damn You 'Elwood' Why Didn't You Warn Me To Have a Handkerchief... Don D.

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Nutter Loc: Fly Over Zone

My dad was a veteran in the Italian Front had a paper back copy of Willie and Joe cartoons.

Willie and Joe, totally dirty, unshaven, sunken-eyed, wearing wh**ever they've picked up, sitting in a bunker smoking, playing cards, and drinking liberated booze with an equally wretched-looking lieutenant. Willie says, "So Lieutenant, what were some of those changes you were gonna make when you took over last month?"

Joe is staring vacantly at a single pane of intact glass in a windowframe in a piece of wall. Otherwise, all else around him is waist-deep rubble. Willie comes up to him and says "Go ahead and break it, Joe. Otherwise it'll keep you awake all night."

A corporal in a dimly lit arty FDC. He's got a radio handset jammed in one ear, a grease pencil behind the other, and is working furiously over the map with dividers and another grease pencil. From across the room, a fat major looks up from reading a comic book and says, "I'll talk to the colonel. You're not paid to think."

Willie and Joe enter a building in an Italian village. Inside are the smashed remains of several huge wine barrels, their contents puddling on the floor. "Them Kraut bastards! Them dirty atrocity commitin' skunks!"

A tank commander leans down from his turret and informs a grunt in a nearby foxhole, "We'll be moving along now. Jerry's found our range."

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

One of my uncles was in France after D-Day (he came in the three wave he says), anyway he told me what made Willie & Joe so great was they told the t***h from the point of view of the privates & corporals... Don D.

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Sons of Liberty Loc: look behind you!

bahmer

Very good thank you.

BigJim

I had his book "Back Home" published after the war about veterans and life in the US. A few I remember:
A little boy talking to another: "I can't see you anymore. You got minorities or something"
Workman are building a gallows. Passerby: "Must be e******n time. They're building the opposition party's platform."
Two soldiers still in Europe: "I don't remember any delays getting us out here"
In Europe: "In times like this the pessimist cuts off the slack end of his belt, the optimist just punches another hole."
Veteran holding up newspaper, visible headline "Veteran Kicks Aunt" : "There's a little item here on page 32 about a triple ax murder. No veterans involved"
Man being held up by masked gunman: "Have you tried getting one of those veteran's loans?