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The last issue of the WWI Stars and Stripes on June 13, 1919 July 19, 1918 -- A Stars and Stripes illustration by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. During World War I, the staff, roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporters or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years.
Bill Mauldin. / 38.880°N 77.070°W / 38.880; -77.070. William Henry Mauldin ( / ˈmɔːldən /; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters ...
Guy Thomas Viskniskki (April 28, 1876 – September 5, 1949) was a career newspaper editor and news executive who founded the historic World War I edition of The Stars and Stripes newspaper while serving as a U.S. Army officer in France with the American Expeditionary Force. Viskniskki established the tradition of The Stars and Stripes as an ...
Photos: Stars and Stripes Picnic fireworks at National WWI Museum and Memorial. The Kansas City Star. July 3, 2022 at 2:40 AM. Kansas City got an early start celebrating the 246th anniversary of ...
Ernie Pyle. Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper ...
Memorial service held by soldiers of the "Fighting 69th" for 19 men lost in the 7 March 1918 Rouge Bouquet bombardment. "Rouge Bouquet" or "The Wood Called Rouge Bouquet" is a lyric poem written in 1918 by American poet, essayist, critic and soldier Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918). The poem commemorates an intense German artillery bombardment of an ...
The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
Willie and Joe are stock characters representing United States infantry soldiers during World War II. They were created and drawn by American cartoonist Bill Mauldin from 1940 to 1948, with additional drawings later. They were published in a gag cartoon format, first in the 45th Division News, then Stars and Stripes, and starting in 1944, a ...