i need info on charles m shulz

[Leatherface]

hey guys i need some info on charles m shulz. the creator of charlie brown. i need to know if he was ever stationed in aresnal claifornia during 1944. becuase my grandpa believed that he met him there. and i would like to know if it was the same guy.

[Drayton Sawyer]

After his mother died in February 1943, he was drafted into the United States Army and was sent to Fort Campbell in Kentucky. He was shipped to Europe two years later, departing Boston on February 5 and arrving in Le Havre, France on February 18, 1945 to fight in World War II with the U.S. 20th Armored Division. The unit spent its first month in unit training. It saw combat at the very end of the war. Elements of the 20th Division participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Schulz's unit was near but did not actually enter the camp.[6] Schulz attained the rank of Staff Sergeant and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB). Years later he would say his proudest possession was his CIB and when speaking of his wartime service he would simply say, "I was a foot soldier."[7]

Schulz served at various camps in the United States in late 1945 and was home in time for Thanksgiving, but was not formally discharged until January 1946.[8] After leaving the army in 1945, he returned to Minneapolis where he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction, Inc. — he had taken correspondence courses before he was drafted. Schulz, before having his comics published, began doing lettering work for a Catholic comic magazine titled Timeless Topix, where he would rush back and forth from dropping off his lettering work and teaching at Art Instruction Schools, Inc.


According to this he served at various camps through 1945. Maybe he was stationed at the one in California during that time?

[Leatherface]

not funny abraxas. and i checked. it wa sthe same charles shulz that created charlie brown. that my grandpa served with.

[Drayton Sawyer]

That's pretty cool. Were they friends?

[Leatherface]

they were buddies but lost contact after the war. my grandpa died when i was very young so i can't ask him about it lol. my mom said taht he often joked about how rich he couldve beenbecause when my grandpa was writing a letter home to his sisters back in WW2 charles asked if he could draw on the back and my grandpa let him. he drew a few of the chracaters and initaled them. after the war my grandpas sisters threw the letters which ha dthe drawings away. he wans't mad at them though.

[Zombified Jeremy]

I will never get bored of the Peanuts specials or the comics.

[Leatherface]

i'm not into the peanuts that much. i wonder how much those drawings wouldve been ten years ago back when the economy was good.

[fridayfan1979]

I've always been a huge fan of the Peanuts. It was a sad day for me when they stopped appearing in the newpaper comics.

[Leatherface]

ah that sucks friday fan. i wish my family still had the letters that had the drawings on them

[fridayfan1979]

Yeah, that would be really cool to see.