tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335080142024-03-13T20:26:53.523-07:00YANK Magazine-The Army WeeklyExcerpts and pictures from the soldier's "Yank" Magazine as well as other references of the life and times of the World War II era.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-71903793150567973142015-05-02T13:21:00.001-07:002015-05-02T13:21:44.303-07:00Yank Magazine 12 Aug 1942<iframe frameborder="0" height="430px" src="https://archive.org/stream/YankMagazine12Aug42/Yank Magazine 12 Aug 42?ui=embed#mode/2up" width="480px"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-47106476149983857612015-05-02T13:19:00.002-07:002015-05-02T13:19:57.238-07:00Yank Magazine 5 Aug 1942<iframe frameborder="0" height="430px" src="https://archive.org/stream/YankMagazine5Aug42/Yank Magazine 5 Aug 42?ui=embed#mode/2up" width="480px"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-57227939214009771602015-05-02T13:17:00.002-07:002015-05-02T13:17:42.483-07:00Yank Magazine 29 July 1942<iframe frameborder="0" height="430px" src="https://archive.org/stream/YANK29July42Small/YANK 29 July 42-small?ui=embed#mode/2up" width="480px"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-29344656817942231062015-04-27T17:59:00.000-07:002015-04-27T17:59:02.062-07:00YANK Magazine 17 June 1942<iframe frameborder="0" height="430px" src="https://archive.org/stream/Yank17June42_201504/Yank 17 June 42?ui=embed#mode/2up" width="480px"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-76621835642730382692013-03-09T09:37:00.000-08:002013-03-09T09:37:26.540-08:00Chow Champ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sgt. Herbert P. Allensbach,</span></strong> Forest Hills, N.Y., who was voted best cook in the Ninth Air Force. He's a whizz with powdered eggs. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-91373934071264869562013-03-08T10:13:00.001-08:002013-03-08T10:13:28.488-08:00Jungle Latrine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Howard Brodie's</span></strong> amazing sketches. From the Library of Congress. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-73713809731777018372013-03-08T09:43:00.000-08:002013-03-08T09:50:50.329-08:00Update-John J. Wilpers Jr. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">John J. Wilpers Jr</span></strong>., the Army intelligence officer who helped arrest Hideki Tojo in 1945, dies.<br />
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Read the Washington post article <strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-j-wilpers-jr-army-intelligence-officer-who-helped-arrest-hideki-tojo-in-1945-dies/2013/03/05/6b7d2c96-85a9-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html">HERE</a></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>S/Sgt. J. O. Clayton</strong></span> (right) in Noumea, New Caledonia, woke up two Medic Captains, <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">R. O. Moore</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">H. R. Willard</span></strong>, to cure his dog's convulsions one night. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-86660533034147383882013-03-05T12:52:00.001-08:002013-03-05T13:01:20.332-08:00Prepping a Rogers' Raider<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not a minstrel show but a night patrol across the Roer impels <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Pvt. Ed Diamond</strong></span> of <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Rogers' Raiders</span></strong> to put on lamp-blacking. This job's a lot different from his Army studies in engineering at Purdue ASTP.<br />
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Photo by <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sgt. Reg Kenny</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-47927999469437915502013-03-05T12:46:00.002-08:002013-03-05T13:01:41.843-08:00The Noise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the fight for Duren a mortar burst temporarily deafened <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">T/Sgt. John Demeduk</span></strong>, platoon sergeant, at the Roer crossing. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-81854613933859421302013-03-04T11:24:00.000-08:002013-03-04T11:24:28.019-08:00Portrait of a Tired Soldier<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An army advances because the individual doughs in the line advance. Most of them keep movig; some of them fall; others, like <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pfc. Joseph F. Leradi</span></strong> of Philadelphia, Pa., do their job until weariness is etched in every line of their bodies. <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK's Pfc. Pat Coffey</span></strong> made this photo at the 80th Division field hospital on the Third Army front. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental Edition</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-72337609142568805352013-03-04T11:02:00.001-08:002013-03-04T11:02:47.354-08:00Cover 11 Mar 1945 Continental Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These tank destroyers accompanying the Eighth Infantry Division, First Army, down the main street of Duren, Germany, are the first U. S. armored vehicles to enter the ruined queen city of the Roer. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 11 March 1945 Continental EditionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-6288861747651851462013-03-02T20:39:00.004-08:002013-03-04T10:47:24.558-08:00Schweinfurt Raid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the story about the Schweinfurt Raid in the B-17 Flying Fortress named <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>YANK. </strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">By</span> </span><strong>Sgt. Walter Peters</strong></span></span><br />
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YANK Pin Up girl for 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition. <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Patricia Dane</span></strong>. She was a young starlet in the 40's. She acted in about 16 movies. She was noted for telling off an MGM studio exec which probably tanked her career. She was married to <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tommy Dorsey</span></strong> for about 4 years in the 1940's. Her birth name was <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Thelma Pippen</strong></span>. She was about 25 when this picture was taken. She died in Florida in 1995. <br />
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<p>For Huertgen was agony, and there was no glory in it except the glory of courageous men--the MP whose testicles were hit by shrapnel and who said, "okay, Doc, I can take it"; the man who walked forward firing Tommy guns with both hands until his arm was blown off and then kept firing the other Tommy gun until he disappeared in a mortar burst...</p>
<p><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0f00">--Sgt. Mack Morriss</font></strong></p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;" id="blogsy_footer"><a href="http://blogsyapp.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://blogsyapp.com/images/blogsy_footer_icon.png" alt="Posted with Blogsy" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" width="20" height="20" />Posted with Blogsy</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-74019558303685390862013-02-23T17:02:00.000-08:002013-02-23T17:02:29.081-08:00Sad Sack - Rough Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Read the short article about one amazing LST and it's hard working crew. The article was written by <span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Cpl. OZZIE
ST. GEORGE</strong></span> YANK Staff Correspondent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Read the article<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://yankstories.blogspot.com/2013/02/five-rising-suns.html"> HERE</a></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">YANK</span></strong> 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-43260752475366192642013-02-23T13:14:00.002-08:002013-02-23T13:22:17.321-08:00News from HomeRead some of the interesting and wacky news stories from home; taken from the 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition.<br />
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Read<span style="font-size: large;"> <strong><a href="http://yankhomefront.blogspot.com/2013/02/25-feb-1945-down-under-edition.html">HERE</a></strong></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-64404422118402160552013-02-23T13:07:00.001-08:002013-02-23T13:10:05.508-08:00A Little Music<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="http://pl.st/e/1/23846866699/455/375/na/red" width="470"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-90854009318082670062013-02-21T12:34:00.000-08:002013-02-21T12:34:37.829-08:00Panama Chow Line<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sgt. Stanley V. Sowa</span></strong>, with an aircraft-warning outfit in Panama, saved his fellow GIs from almost starving when he took over the mess call for these honey bears (<em>coatimundi</em>). Before the Sergeant began feeding them each day at about 1100 and 1600, they were invading the kitchens any time they could for anything they could find. The honey bear gang is led by a lively monkey by the name of Jocko.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-22244032111988741112013-02-21T12:13:00.003-08:002013-02-21T12:13:39.503-08:00Jungle WarRead "Jungle War" in YANK Stories. This was an article taken from a wounded soldier's intelligence report of the fight in New Guinea><br />
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Read the article <strong><a href="http://yankstories.blogspot.com/2013/02/jungle-war.html">HERE</a></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33508014.post-15108716478508198892013-02-18T13:57:00.000-08:002013-02-18T13:58:24.567-08:00Cover 4 May 1945 Mediterranean Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weary tank commander catching fourty winks is <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sgt. Westly E. Stewart</span></strong> of Los Angeles. With the rest of the First Armored Division, he had just taken Vergato in the power drive of the Fifth Army's "big push" on the Bologna front in Italy.</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The above precious little piece of YANK was no doubt a family treasure for the past 68 years of Stewart Family. Westly's son contacted us on the Twitter site to see if we could locate a copy. If anyone knows where he can get this edition let us know. </td></tr>
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The Jap 75mm antiaircraft gun of 1928 vintage was captured in New Guinea and sent by Ordnance Intelligence men to an information and testing lab in Australia. <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">T-4 Newton W. Smith</span></strong> of East Orwell, Ohio, and <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>T/Sgt. Charles L. Merrill</strong></span> of New Berry, S. C., are shown learning the gun's operation. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">GOODENOUGH ISLAND—(Papua New Guinea) That peculiarly loathsome detail,
hauling sand, has suddenly taken on quite an allure for the enlisted men of one
general hospital in this area. Their gravel pit, you see, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is loaded with diamonds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Scarcely of a size or nature that will lead to any
of the enlisted men's retiring after the war, the stones are nevertheless worth
looking for. Varying in size from pinheads to peas, some are worth as much as a
quid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Pvt. Arnold L. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anderson</strong></span> of Lomita, Calif., recently found one
worth three quid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This find,
incidentally, led to the next few gravel trucks being filled in record time
that the detail might knock off and crawl through the pit on their hands and
knees,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hoping<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for some<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">—<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pvt. RAY CHRISTIANSEN</span></strong> YANK Field Correspondent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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