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The Sad Sack (comic strip)  

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  • The Sad Sack was an enormously popular, humorous comic strip that appeared in the Army's Yank magazine between 1942 and 1945. The Sad Sack captured the plight of the American citizen–soldier, drafted into an armed forces with a culture he could not master or even understand. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Sad Sack, The]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GBMBKHT7-W

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