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Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Historical image related to Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. from October 4, 1941

Willie Gillis

Fictional character by Norman Rockwell

Willie Gillis, Jr. is a fictional character created by Norman Rockwell for a series of World War II paintings that appeared on the covers of 11 issues of The Saturday Evening Post between 1941 and 1946. Gillis was an everyman with the rank of private whose career was tracked on…
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The Saturday Evening Post

Leading 19th- and 20th-century American mainstream weekly magazine

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year. It was published weekly from 1897 until 1963, and then every other week until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines among the American…
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