During WW2, all sorts of guys went into the military, even cartoonists, and some were put to work on all the many publications and booklets in the training department, and

Except, the facts above are wrong. The comics were Smilin' Jack and Sparky Watts. The above Lt had the first name Gordon, and was known as Boody.

Rogers was Zack Mosley's assistant on The Adventures of Smilin' Jack when he sold his own strip, Sparky Watts, to the Frank Jay Markey Syndicate, which distributed such strips as Ed Wheelan's Big Top and Rube Goldberg's Lala Palooza. Sparky Watts debuted Monday, April 29, 1940 in some 40 newspapers. The strip ended when Rogers was drafted. During World War II he gave chalk talks to servicemen. His World War II experiences are detailed in his autobiography, Homeless Bound (1984).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boody_Rogers