Some wounded are evacuated. Sgt D.S. Jackson (left) killed five Japs before he was hit. Sgt. E.B. Lovett's helmet was creased by a bullet. 
A light machine gunner peers through the sun-flecked jungle, trying to locate a target, but the Japs, only some 50 yards away, are quiet.
Two infantrymen, Cpl. Lewis Niovich of Seanor, Pa., and S/Sgt. Anthony Cavallero of Woodbridge, N.J., lie behind a log awaiting developments.
Two gunners get their light machine gun into place behind a fallen tree and wait to open up at the first sign of Japs in front of them.
Men who call themselves "seagoing engineers" pilot small flat-bottomed boats through the island channels, carrying men and supplies.
Pfc. Oscar Spielberg, who used to pedal "Duh Joinal" in the Bronx, not peddles "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" at an 8th Air Force Fighter Station in the ETO.
The "Sukiyaki Maru" meets a bomb socially in Wewak harbor. Another tem minutes and she will meet the bottom, making that tender beside her feel very foolish.
22-passenger Jeep (or did we miss one?) makes a handy portable classroom for a batch of English schoolboys out to learn how the Yanks do things.
The drawing is by Sgt. John Scott for an article in YANK titled The Marauders.
Round One. Original sketch by Cpl Fred Ray AAF.
Troops of a U. S. Army task force check their equipment en route from New Caledonia to the Solomans.
Art. This gallery of shapely gams is being played over with a paint-spray gun to create the illusion of stockings. No more runs for the duration for this war-wise octet of Hollywood chorus cuties.
U.S. soldiers in the Caribbean area peg down their shelter halves. Wet heat and armies of bugs make sleeping tough, but they go through it, to keep that frontier safe.
A Marine eats a speedy meal on Guadalcanal. Sitting on top of a trench, he can't afford to linger over lunch.
With one hand ready to grab his pistol belt and holster, Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce takes a short rest on an operational flight somewhere over the South Seas area. War in the Pacific means constant readiness. Generals can't afford to sleep long.
In a six-week maintenance course at the Ordance Automotive School, Camp Holabird, Md., WAACs are taught, among other things, to drive vehicles under what must be considered unpleasant conditions. Here, Lt. Jessie Hogan does quite all right at the wheel of a heavy-weapon carrier.
Decorated. Actress Claire Luce returns to America from England, loaded with insignia from soldiers she'd been entertaining.
In Australia, two master sergeants, Charles Reeves, Bakersfield, Calif., and Roland Boone, Hemet, Calif., man the machine guns of a Flying Fortress.
By nature friendly guys, the Americans lose no time making friends. Here they chat, in who knows what language, to a trio of Arabs.
Yanks en route to Africa, an Army band plays to the troops as they stand on the decks of a British transport.
Jane Nigh was a Hollywood actress who was discovered in a defense plant during WWII. She played roles for Fox Studios as a redheaded sweetheart or as a spicy lady. She acted from 1944 until 1961. Her birth name was Bonnie Lenora Nigh. She died in Kern County California in 1993 of a stroke. She was about 19 when this picture was taken.
Men of a Mexican fighter squadron get radio pointers from 1st Lt. Franklin A. Hopkins of Scott Field.
Moving up on Germany, soldiers rest in the hollow of a grainfield in France and some catch up on their mail.
An Air Forces photographer acts as infantryman, medic and aerial gunner in getting his pictures of the fighting in the Pacific. Sgt. Henry B. Krush.
Returning from a bombing mission, the China Clipper still had one hour's flying time to go when the gas gauges read "empty." Clipper Crew. Front row, L to R: S/Sgt Winston Siebert, S/Sgt Robert Sanschagain, T/Sgt Arsenio Stabile, S/Sgt William Croner, S/Sgt Walter Salzmann, in the rear: T/Sgt Charles Barber, Lt. Frank Ciesla Jr., Lt. Robert Nolan, Lt. Charles Melville and Lt. John Charleton. YANK 3 Nov 1944
This nice Howard Brodie sketch is in a article about Home Towns in Wartime. It shows GIs in San Francisco.
The weather ws like Indian summer back home. Troops could ford the Moselle River at some points.
The mouth of a Nazi pillbox gapes like an empty cave opening. Two of it's late occupants sprawl dead before it.
During a pause in the advance toward Berlin, Pfc. Edward L. Schronce of Belmont, N.C. cleans up at a hydrant in Villedieu, France. Schronce is a member of an antitank unit.
This is a photographic presentation we created for a relative of a GI's story in YANK magazine. This image mounts into a 16x20 frame. The cover shot is to the exact size of the original YANK cover.
Deanna Durbin
After the Fourth Armored Division broke through to the Bastogne pocket, many German prosoners were taken. Here Pvt. Frank Kelly an MP of the Fourth, leads a group of PWs to the rear as U.S. halftracks move forward.
Sights like these were common during the now historic siege of Bastogne. Here three men of the 101st Airborne Division guard an outpost.
If only all MPs were like Republic's movie starlet Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were line Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were like Helen Talbot.
To protect themselves from strafing by the Luftwaffe, Ninth Air Force GIs in France get their chow served from a tent-covered underground kitchen and form their chow line in a trench.
Railroading GIs bunking at Camp Atterbury, Iran, have this homey baseball scoreboard. PX gripes get taken for a ride in the cigarette and razor-blade ads.
Three times 1st Sgt. Thomas E. Valentine refused to go to OCS. He feared he'd be shifted from the 27th Division, New York's Fighting Irish. His obstinacy paid off and, in the hospital with wounds received fighting at Saipan, he got a direct commission as a second lieutenant with his beloved 27th.
Sgt. "Hooks" Hill, a Fort Worth (Tex.) boy came to France on a tour conducted by the 3d infantry Division, pauses to drop a line in the Doube River near Avanne for old times' sake.
