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For the young'uns:
Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin in Chicago Sun-Times on 23rd November, 1963.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)mobeau69
(11,131 posts)One of my treasures.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)great read, and of course all of the cartoons.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)I took it from my parents' bookcase when they were clearing out some stuff.
mobeau69
(11,131 posts)Dad would never talk about his time in N Africa and Europe much. Some of the guys that never shipped out were the only ones who liked to talk about it.
BTW, I also have the complete Sun Times that has Mauldins Lincoln. Never thought it could get worse than 63. Wrong!
Have a good holiday, MM.
MineralMan
(146,248 posts)My father didn't talk about the war, either, so I had to learn about it from books. Decades later, he would tell some stories about the war, but not a lot. It was such a different time. At 19-20 years of age, he was a first pilot in a B-17. One of the very youngest. There are photos of him and his crew, along with photos of he and my mom, who married him just before he shipped out. I was born a week before the Hiroshima bomb, so that gives you an idea of the time period when he was flying bombing missions. If I remember correctly, he flew 13 bombing missions near the end of the war in Europe, including a mission to Ploesti.
After the war in Europe ended, he flew people here and there in the B-17, operating out of North Africa and Italy. Then, about three months after I was born, he flew his B-17 back to the US, via Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Florida, where he was mustered out of the service and took a train to Arizona where my mom and I were waiting for him. From there, they moved to a small town in California where I grew up.
When I was 20, I was in the USAF myself. I carried my father's B-4 bag along all throughout my service as my suitcase, along with the standard blue duffel bag.
rzemanfl
(29,554 posts)Aristus
(66,275 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,789 posts)Brave soldier.
Great human being.
Mister Ed
(5,921 posts)I was a just a young boy during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960's, but I do remember seeing this one while browsing through a copy of "I've Decided I Want My Seat Back".
I remind myself of this whenever my privileged self feels tempted to preach incrementalism to African-Americans, or any other group fighting for their rights.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)My dad bought a couple from the Sun-Times in 63. He gave them to my brother and me. Mine is framed not sure what my brother did with his.