At Recons request posting a pic for him.
Son of Francis "Combat" Stephens- Co. C 36th Combat Engineer Regiment
Thanks for doing that. Can never get enough of his drawings.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Thanks Joe, for posting the cartoon. I have three books of Mauldin's WWII
cartoons, but this one is my favorite. It's a side of War you don't hear much about. The rations were nourishing, but they were cold, relatively tasteless and worst of all, monotonous, as I'm sure you remember. (Day after day, week after week and month after month). And to drink, we had a canteen of luke warm (body temperature) water!
And try to refill your canteen from a 5 gallone can of water with a 3 or 4 inch diameter spout!
Bill Mauldin had a good understanding of the infantryman's lot and his cartoons struck home then and still do!
Russ Cloer - 3_7_I_Recon
Russ Cloer, WWII Captain, 7th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division.