![]() In deference to Bill Mauldin’s fame and age (he was 43), battalion commander Lt. Now, Bruce was a helicopter pilot with the 52nd Aviation Battalion at Pleiku. Mauldin was in the Army with the 45th Division in Sicily. He wanted to visit his oldest son, Bruce, who had been born in 1943 while Sgt. On February 7, after a few days taking notes and making sketches in and around Saigon, Mauldin hitched a helicopter ride north to Camp Holloway near Pleiku in the Central Highlands. No one, including Mauldin, could have guessed just how ferocious his flashback to war would be. In anticipation, 275 newspapers in the Sun-Times’ syndicate ran old Willie and Joe cartoons from 19. Headlines and billboards trumpeted the news: “Bill Mauldin Invades Vietnam!” and “Bill Mauldin Goes Up Front Again!” ![]() ![]() When famed World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin took off for Vietnam in early 1965, the Chicago Sun-Times pulled out all the stops in promoting its two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s return to war. BY TODD DePASTINO, IMAGES COURTESY OF THE PRITZKER MILITARY MUSEUM & LIBRARY ![]()
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