Bill Mauldin and hot coffee

I remember one where Willie & Joe were about to capture a staggering, drunk German soldier who was carrying a bottle of booze..."Don't startle him Willie, he might drop it."

There was a Pulitzer Prize winner, about Willie & Joe escorting prisoners to the rear in a rainstorm, with all looking identically war-weary..."Fresh, spirited troops, flushed with victory..."

Mauldin, I believe, also drew cartoons about the Korean War.

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"Our most pressing problems...are at their core moral, not material, problems." Richard Nixon
"We should not substitute the state for the parents or the family." Lee Kwan Yew
 
Willie and Joe standing behind an interrogator who is sitting at a desk, a German prisoner in front of the desk...

Interrogator says to W&J, "I'll let you know if I find the one that invented the 88."
 
Willie & Joe looting the schnapps rack, prominently posted "Fur Offizieren", startled by the enlisted German guard who reassures them "Nein, nein, I would not think of interfering..."

Willie & Joe in a trench at night, playing harmonica. Willie asks Joe "The krauts ain't followin' ya too good tonight on 'Lilli Marlene'. Ya reckon sumthin' happened to their tenor?"

The odd bits of humanity that bubble to the surface and make war such a fascinating phenomenon...

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Tamara's House o' Weapons: If we can't kill it, it's immortal.
10mm: It's not the size of the Dawg in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!
 
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