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Archive Home > 2006 > November > 11 > Drawn from experience

Drawn from experience

WWII soldier sent home cartoons instead of letters, later collected them

By Julie Johnson / The Bulletin
November 11, 2006

ick Mackey wasn't much of a writer.

As a young man shipping off to World War II, Mackey, a combat engineer with the 406th Infantry Regiment, chose instead to draw.

Now, after Mackey's death in October at age 81, a collection of his cartoons from his service during the war is all son Neil Mackey,....

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