Trivia / Willie and Joe

• What Could Have Been: Mauldin considered his final "Willie and Joe" strip ending with both guys getting killed on the final day of the war. He realized that would have been too horrific, even after a real-life bloody war. Instead he ended it with Willie and Joe fainting when told they're shipping out for home. He actually ended up getting a fair amount of mileage out of the interminable waiting for a place to actually get home, as well as their readjustment to civilian life.