Selected strips from Stars and Stripes. I scanned these from the book Up Front by Bill Maudlin (1945, Henry Holt and Co. The drawings are copyright United Feature Syndicate, if it matters). The strips mainly feature two GIs named Willie and Joe that the author affectionately refers to as "dogfaces", which is just another name for the common infantryman. Of course some of the strips deal with other groups of our fighting men, and naturally there are a few jokes at officers' expense. The text deals with Maudlin's experience traveling with the boys at the front and the cartoons are interspersed throughout the book, sometimes with the author giving the inspiration for the cartoon. Well anyway, on to the strips.
