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Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. One of the best known war babiesis Sergeant Bill Mauldin's Stars and Stripescartoon, Üp Front With Mauldin, in which the 23-year-old artist dopicts the adventures of unshaven front-line soldiers. The Mauldin cartoons, of which this is typical, are syndicated around the world and enjoy considerable popularity with civilians as well as soldiers.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Eager soldiers pull copies of Stars and Stripesfrom the press of the Londen Times at 9 P.M. May 7, 1945, when an extra was put out to announce the news of Germany's total collapse. This paper was the first to hit London streets with the full story of the German surrender.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. As Lieutenant Long, in charge of the Pfungstadt edition of Stars and Stripes, looks on, Arthur Force, member of the editorial staff, tries his hand on a captured German linetype machine. The presses had been set up by the Frankfurt-on-Maine Zeitung as auxiliary presses in the event the Allied bombed out their main presses. However, they never had a chance ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. U.S. soldiers liberated from a German prison in Halle, Germany, eagerly read a copy of Stars and Stripes.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Corporal Luke Doheny, commercial artist from Chicago, keeps battle positions up to date with a map just before the end of the war in Europe. The type of map depended on the top war story of the day. When the lead stiry warranted a map for illustration purposes, Doheny checked with foreign editor Taylor for the latest advances of armies and drew a new map. ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Assistant Managing Editor Jim Russell (right) of New York's PM supervises the makeup of a page-size galley. Stars and Stripesnewsman, used to the fast, nimble fingers of U.S. makeupmen, find British hands much slower, more methodical. Where American makeup men put together pages in a complete form, Britens make up a page in a page-size galley (tray), such ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. The managing editor of the London edition, Sergeant Pete Lisagor (left), formerly of the Chicago Daily News, comfers with Coast Guardsman Bill McElvain of Decatur, Illinois, on a story describing the work o f the Navy in the ETO for a proposed special edition. While Stars and Stripesfound most its readers in foxholes and in fighter plpanes and bombers, ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Corporal Cecil Suiter of Spohane, Washington, sends a story from London to Paris over a direct teletype circuit. Into the London wire room of Stars and Stripescome thousands of words daily from correspondents on the Continent. These correspondents covered nearly every big story during the war in Europe from the first bombing of Berlin to the surrender at ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Sergeant Andy Watts, formerly with United Press in Florida, edits copy for the B-Bagcolumn, which contains letter to the editors. No matter how good his assignment, a soldier is always complaining. He considers it the one privilage left hin when he gave up the status of a civilian for the reregimentation of the Army. B-Bagwas originated for the purpose ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. The mailing room of The London Times, from which Stars and Stripesis sent out. Almost as complex as the composition of the paper itself is its distribution, which requires counting, sorting, bundling, getting the right number of copies to the proper place at the scheduled time, meeting trucks and trains. The Times circulation department handles this job. ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Sergeant George Maskin, formerly with The Detroit (Michigan) Times, edits cables from New York supplying home newsfrom the states for the column Äround the 48 Yesterday. News for this feature is briefed from press agency output and material received from America. Starved for local news of their home towns, GI's always scan through this column. They find ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Segeant Dick Wingert of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, draws his famous cartoon character, Hubert. This pudgy little soldier is one of the most beloved wrong-footed GI of the U.S. Army. Hubert, who has been everything from an officer to a hapless sad sackand has been in every branch of the Army but the WAG, is as popular with ETO soldiers as are Sergeant Bill Mauldin's ...