Bill Mauldin once said, “Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”
Few of the 16 million who served during World War II are still living. At least a half-dozen wars have occurred since Japan surrendered in 1945, but some surviving veterans recall details as if they happened yesterday. Among the highlights and horrors of the World War II experience, Bill Mauldin’s cartoons are remembered by many.