After The Battle At Kwajalein

The walls of this power plant on Ennubirr Island were two feet thick byt that wasn't thick enough to take the Navy's shelling.

Read the full story by Sgt. Merle Miller: HERE

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

While supplies are unloaded at Ennubirr Island, result of Navy bombardment can be seen in the sky.

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

En route to the Marshalls, Sgt. Charles Blair of Vero Beach, Fla., sharpens edge of his combat knife.

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

Blasted pillbox is inspected by a Leatherneck whose fifle is ready should a "dead" Jap prove to be alive.

YANK 10 Mar 1944

Berchtesgaden

GIs who captured Hitler's mountain hideaway found rubble and magnificence. Amid the ruins there was still plenty of evidence of the high style in which the Nazi Fuehrer used to live.

YANK 22 June 1945

Read the full story: HERE

Vicious Cycle

The Sad Sack - Vicious Cycle - by George Baker

YANK 22 June 1945

Yank Cover 22 June 1945

Where Adolf Hitler and his gang once sat at Berchtesgaden, these soldiers of the 3d Infantry Division take a deserved break with a little wine for company.

YANK 22 June 1945

Yank Cover 4 Feb 1945

YANK Cover for 4 Feb 1945 Continental Edition. When this picture was taken by YANK's Sgt. Kenny, S/Sgt. Joseph Arnaldo of New Bedford, Mass., had just come off the line after 10 successive days of fighting. His hood and face covered with snow, Arnaldo had recovered from a temporary blindness when an 88 mounted on a jerry tank was fired a few yards from him.

Second Battle of Bougainville

Isolated and facing starvation, the Jap forces launched a desperate assault against two seasoned U. S. divisions. When the battle was over, 7,000 of the Japs were dead.

by Sgt. Garrett McGurn

Read the full story: HERE

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Mail call

Sgt. Alva Shipman of Robinson, Ill., keeps watch while Pfc. Herman Tarlton of Herod, Ill. reads mail.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Samurai prize

Samurai sword is the prize that Sgt. Warren Schultz of Madison, Wis., has taken from a slain Jap officer.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Sweet Memories

At Harlingen Army Air Field, Tex., Pfc. Charles R. Saggau, aerial gunnery student, shows more than ordinary interest in YANK pin-up Jeanne Crain. Pfc. Saggau acted in several movies with Jeanne in civilian life.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

The Reising gun

A Reising gun comes in handy if you're 150 yards from your lines, like Sgt. Oron Banks of Shaw, Ill.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

BAR to the rescue

With a BAR, Pvt. Raymond Vozelli of Philadelphia, Pa., disposed of 30 Japs found near his pillbox.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Chow on their tank

Using their tank as a table, Sgts. Elmore Sackett and Arnold Parillo sampler chow brought up from the rear.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

OP on Bougainville

Less than 100 yards from the enemy's position, Pfc. Leonard Cooper of Altoona, Pa., and S/Sgt. Michael Pistner of Du Bois, Pa., nonchalantly sit in a Boougainville OP and radio back directioons to our artillery.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Hawaiian Honey

Usually people in far-away lands don’t check with the ideas you get in the movies. Hawaii’s May Moniz is a lovely exception.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Veteran Chef

Paul Vallee, 70, working in the Metz mess of S/Sgt. Louis Bruno, cooked for Gen. Pershing in the last war.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Would-Be WACS

In Puerto Rico, smiling Wac Sgt. Mary Lou Hayes passes out test papers to these four attractive young senoritas who have just volunteered to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Tokyo Milestone

This is the volcano Fujiyama as seen through the nose of a B-29 Superfort on its way to bomb Tokyo. Superfort crews make use of the volcano as a guide to the Jap capital.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Field Promotions

Fifth Army noncoms are awarded commissions in Italy. In the rear are Lt. Donald R. Sprow, Lt. DeWitt H. French and Lt. Peter DeAugustine

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Trick Dog

Irving Chornus holds a hoop for Hi-Ki, a Doberman pinscher in the K-9 Corps, New Caledonia.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Fake Tank

A Yank in France examines one of the dummy wooden tanks erected by the Germans near Metz. It’s a wooden frame with a drain-pipe gun mounted on a cart. From a distance it looks realistic.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Pacific McCarthy

S/Sgt Alex P. Smallwood sits on the knee of his friend, Sgt. Bob Mundstedt, in Dutch New Guinea. A couple of Javanese boys impressed by his patter.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Moving Day

When the PX at Southeast Asia Command HQ got a new 2,600-pound refrigerator, the problem was: How to move it? A local elephant helped the PX boys turn the trick.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Liberation Bob

Filipino Blas Sypaco of Tacloban gets his first haircut in three year. He let his hair grow throughout the Japanese occupation.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Rocket Landing

An LCI in the first assault wave on Mindoro, the Philippines, lays down a rocket barrage on the shore.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Iron Man Battalion

Iron Man Battalion

By Sgt. JOE MCCARTHY

The old-timers of this 34th Division outfit have sweated it out longer than any other infantrymen in Europe—three years overseas with 350 days spent in the front lines of Tunisia and Italy.

Read the full story:

HERE

First man in the ETO

Pfc. Milburn H. Henke of Hutchinson, Minn., walked down the gangplank at Belfast, Northern Ireland, in a 1918 helmet, blouse, necktie, full field pack, M1, gas mask and canvas leggings, and posed on the dock, smiling, for pictures that later appeared in practically every newspaper in the States. That was Jan. 26, 1942. Henke was the center of all that attention because he was the first American soldier in this war to set foot in the European theater.

Infantry Battle in New Georgia

Read the story of some of the harrowing battles fought by American Soldiers on New Georgia as told by Sgt. Mack Morriss.

Read the full story:

HERE

Pullam's Pillbox

By Sgt. EARL ANDERSON

The troop shelter was concrete, reinforced and four feet thick. The GI who blew it open picked up an unexpected decoration.

View full story:

HERE

Homage to Bataan

We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan, no mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam. No aunts, no uncles, no nephews, no nieces, no pills, no planes, no artillery pieces, and nobody gives a damn.

Read the full story:

HERE

Tank Drive in France

Tank Drive in France

by Sgt.Walter Peters

The battalion was weary but it slugged one of the holes in the German lines that opened up the way for the push into Brittany.

Read the full story:

HERE

Earthquake Express!

Earthquake Express!

As soon as her giant craw is filled with gasoline from one of Boeing's International tank trucks, this new Flying Fortress will be roaring into the blue, headed for induction into the Army Air Forces. She's ready for battle ... ready to drop tons and tons of earthquakes on enemy targets with bull's-eye precision.
International Trucks—a large fleet of them—are helping to speed the production of Flying Fortresses ... rushing light and heavy loads from place to place in Boeing's short-flow multiple-line production system ... fueling the big bombers by the tank-car load. All over America pre-war Internationals — the largest selling heavy-duty truck on the market when civilian trucks were still being made—are hauling vital materials for war factories, rushing food and supplies to military bases and industrial centers.
New Trucks Now . . . But Don't Wait: Trucks do a gigantic job in keeping the wheels of war industry turning ... a job so essential that the government has authorized the manufacture of a limited quantity of new heavy-duty trucks for civilians in essential occupations. A good share of these new trucks will be Internationals.
If you need a new truck, don't fail to get in touch with your International Branch or Dealer right away for valuable help in making out your application. And don't delay!
Preventive Maintenance for Victory: Those trucks you now have ... for the sake of Victory keep 'em rolling! Let the truck specialists at your International Branch or Dealer keep them in tiptop shape. Take advantage of the experience, the skills, the facilities of the largest Company-owned truck service organization in the world. Pledge your trucks to Victory.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER

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Life Magazine 6 Sept 1943

De Soto Products Are In Action

De Soto Products Are In Action

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Life Magazine 6 Sept 1943

Meet MRS. Casey Jones

Meet MRS. Casey Jones

CASEY'S gone to war... so Mrs. Jones is "working on the railroad!"

She is putting in a big day's work oiling and swabbing down giant engines, cleaning and vacuuming cars, handling baggage, selling tickets, moving through the aisles as a trainman.
In fact, she is doing scores of different jobs on the Pennsylvania Railroad — and doing them well. So the men in the armed forces whom she has replaced can take comfort in the fact Mrs. Casey Jones is “carrying on” in fine style. Since the war began, Pennsylvania Railroad has welcomed thousands of women into its ranks of loyal, busy and able workers. They are taking a real part in the railroad's big two-fold job of moving troops and supplies and serving essential civilian needs during the war emergency. You will find these women, not merely in expected places, such as offices, telephone exchanges and ticket windows . . . you will find them out where "man-size" jobs have to be done: in the round house, in the shops, in the yards, in the terminals, in the cars. We feel sure the American public will take pride in the way American womanhood has pitched in to keep the Victory trains rolling!


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Life Magazine 6 Sept 1943

Rommel Count Your Men!

Rommel Count Your Men!

by Sgt. Bill Davidson

. . . And when Rommel counted, he was short a whole tank full of Nazis, for this crack 155-mm. howitzer outfit dropped a shell marked "From Harlem to Hitler" neatly through the turret of a German tank nine miles away. They have thrown more than 10,000 rounds against the Aryan Superman myth.

Artwork by Jack Coggins.

YANK 3 Sept 1944 British Edition

Read the entire article: HERE

Maedchen In Uniform

Maedchen In Uniform

by Sgt. George Barrett

The girls who served in Adolf's army are a sorry, slovenly looking lot. In a PW camp near Florence they spill their gripes to GI guards.

YANK 21 Sept 1945

Read the full article:

HERE

YANK Cover 21 Sept 1945

A farmer hauls a reaper and binder behind a new civilian jeep. That is only one of the uses to which this GI wagon can be put.

YANK 21 Sept 1945

Precious Hides

These GI's working on a road detail on a Western Pacific Base Island are taking no chances with passing mortorists interfering with their future. There's too much as stake. Left to right: Pfc. Larry Rudowitz, T-5 Murray Goldman, Sgt. Stanley Pudelek and Sgt. Charles Gurrell.

YANK 21 Sept 1945

In The Family

A year ago Anita Mathews of Houston, Tex., and her daughter Maurine Wilson both decided to join the Wacs. Now they are stationed together as privates at Orlando Army Air Base, AAF Tactical Center, where they are both doing statistical work.

YANK 21 Sept 1945

SAILJER

Look at S/Sgt. Larry Ohman and you'll see that the army and the navy can be combined. This hybrid serviceman is an AAF mechanic assigned to a Navy ship reparing airplane parts in the Pacific.

From YANK 21 Sept 1945

The Sad Sack 21 Sept 1945

The Sad Sack by George Baker

Note he is in the Philippines.

From YANK 21 Sept 1945

Yank Cover 14 Sept 1945

YANK Cover for 14 Sept 1945

Veteran of Attu, Kwajalein, Leyte and Okinawa, S/Sgt. Grayson Wilkins qualifies as a symbol of The GI's War against Japan. The 27-year-old rifleman, who comes from Nelson, Va., was photographed on Okinawa by YANK's Cpl. George Burns. Those scars on the stock of his M-l are the result of hits from shell fragments.

Cartoon by Cpl. E. Maxwell

Cartoon by Cpl. E. Maxwell

appeared in YANK 5 Sept 1943

Cartoon by Pvt. Robert Bugg

Cartoon by Pvt. Robert Bugg
appeared in YANK 5 Sept 1943

Contact Information

The Spam is horrific. The requests are impossible. And I am just one guy with a large Yank collection.

I appologize if some of you thought this was an "official" working newspaper. Yank went out of business in 1945.

Most requests are far too vague to be of any help. Yank published in 21 different versions and just that; they were all different. Your grandfather's appearence in one may not have guaranteed he was in the other 20 versions.

If you have very specific information where I can be helpful then try us out at:

yanktoday@gmail.com

And be very very patient.

Thanks. And we love all the vets and their gallent service.

Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop

YANK Pin-up Girl

1 Sept 1944

Head Hunters Boogie Woogie

Head Hunters Drop War Drums For Boogie Woogie as GI Band Jumps

by Sgt. Ed Cunningham

GI Band in India calls itself the "V-Boys"

YANK 5 Sept 1943

Read full story:

HERE

Gun

Gun

by Sgt. Walter Bernstein

The story of a 105-mm howitzer, serial number 1008, and the men who fired it in Texas and Pine Camp and then for keeps in Sicily.

YANK 5 Sept 1943

Read the full story :

HERE

Cartoon by Sgt. Dyer

Cartoon by Sgt. Dyer.

It appeared in YANK in 5 Sept 1943.

1945 Jukebox

Music has been moved to the side bar at the top of the page.

Beach Vigil

Cover for the 1 Sept 1944 issue of YANK

Down Under edition

New Flight Nurses

Cartoon by MSgt. Ted Miller

Appeared in 1 Sept 1944 issue of YANK

On Leave

On Leave by Norman Rockwell

This was a cover of The Saturday Evening Post of 15 Sept 1945.

The very day this magazine hit the stands the Japanese were signing the surrender aboard the USS Missouri. For this sailor, leave would no doubt turn into release to civilian life.

Signal Corpsmen During Battle

Signal Corpsmen During Battle by Mead Schaeffer

This was a cover from Saturday Evening Post of 9 Sept 1944.

Like so many contributions to the WWII era, we could not have won the war without Signal Corpsmen. Their job was vital in and around combat. Many were close in to the action and countless died in the performance of their duty. It was not unknown to the enemy that if you shot the guy with the radio, artillery and air support may not be brought against you.

Signal Corpsmen had to lug around huge radio sets that didn't work all that well. They operated in the heart of stress trying to get things done that would help bring the situation under control. Without their efforts and contribution unknown numbers of Americans may have died due to the chaos of war.

Rosie to the Rescue

Rosie to the Rescue by Norman Rockwell

This Saturday Evening Post cover of 4 Sept 1943, shows what we might call today as recycling. However during World War II it was critical to the war effort. There were constant "material" drives to collect all sorts of things to be remanufactured into war products. Kids in communities across America would pull their wagons around neighborhoods collecting things for these drives. If you had two shovels you were expected to give up one for the war effort. The metal in that shovel might contribute to the hull of an aircraft carrier. Which in turn might save the lives of the sons and husbands of America.

Paratrooper

Paratrooper by Mead Schaeffer

This cover for Saturday Evening Post of 12 Sept 1942, shows one of the many moments of truth that brave men faced in WWII. Keep in mind that not all paratroopers survived the jump. Two years later in Normandy an incredible number of paratroopers were injured or killed in the night jump into France. This was purely from the jump into the treacherous darkness and not combat.

Dutch Treat

Dutch Treat by John Hyde

This Saturday Evening Post Cover for 6 Sept 1941
shows America slowly gearing up for war. The poor kid on Army wages can't afford to pay for his girls meal so it's Dutch Treat.