But very few have chronicled war for the people doing the fighting. Bill Mauldin, World War II's most famous cartoonist, is one of them. In 1943, when he was 21, Mauldin's division shipped ...

Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were “terribly grim and real . . . abou ...

Will Mauldin covered the State Department and foreign policy for The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. He has reported from 40 countries, frequently traveling with the U.S. secretary of state ...