YANK Magazine The Army Weekly

Picnic at Sansapor

2009-08-28T19:33:00.000-07:00

It wasn't all war and destruction. Sometimes it was just a picnic. The GIs were ready to fight but no one came out to fight.

Read Sgt. Charles Pearson's story of the Picnic at Sansapor.

Read the full article HERE

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Battle Score

2009-08-28T19:29:00.000-07:00

Tadji, New Guinea

Three Nips killed and one GI shirt lost was S/Sgt. Gordon Clapshaw's battle score.

YANK 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

The Morning After

2009-08-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

Tadji, New Guinea

The morning after they had mowed down a whole column of Japs, S/Sgt. John B. Dicken, Pvt. Paul E. Troutman and Pfc. Joe A. Angel take a cautious look around their foxhole.

YANK 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

It's Hotter'n Hell at Andimeshk

2009-08-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

Read Sgt. Burtt Evans amusing tale of putting up with the heat for our GIs serving in Iran. Yes I said Iran.

Read the full Article HERE

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Persistent Moser

2009-08-28T14:18:00.000-07:00

Australia

2nd Lt. Ernest Moser of Sagiknaw, Mich., is a persistent guy, which is an understatement if you ever saw one. Moser joined the Army twice and applied 8 times to become a pilot in the Army. Even then, with his ten years of flying experience in civilian life, it took two Generals, Kenny and Arnold to push through waivers to get the job done. For a while he was the only flying T/Sgt. rated as a service pilot.

YANK 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Marie McDonald

2009-08-28T14:09:00.000-07:00

Marie McDonald was the Pin-up Girl for YANK for 25 Aug 1944.

Marie appeared in about 24 Hollywood productions. Her nickname for a while was "the body."

Unfortunately she died of an overdose in 1965 at the age of 42. She was about 21 when this picture was taken.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Sgt. Pete Paris

2009-08-27T16:13:00.000-07:00

Sgt. Pete Paris the first enlisted man to report for duty on the editorial staff of YANK when it was activated in 1942, was killed in action June 6 on the Normandy beachhead while he was covering the D-Day landings of the 1st Division for this magazine.

Pete was an illistrator and photographer. He took some award winning photos during the African campain.

Pete Paris was 30 years old.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

The Battle of Belvedere

2009-08-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

Read the action packed story by Sgt. James P. O'Neill about the 100th and 442nd fight one day in Italy. These are our proud "most decorated" Japanese-American soldiers who gave there all in WWII.

Read the full story of "The Battle of Belvedere" HERE

YANK 25 Aug 1944

YANK Cover 27 Aug 1944 British Edition

2009-08-27T12:24:00.000-07:00

"KAMERAD!" The jig is up for this Nazi officer, and a couple of MPs intend to see it stays that way.

YANK 27 Aug 1944 British Edition

Sad Sack "Information"

2009-08-26T12:35:00.000-07:00

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Rookie Veteran

2009-08-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

Lois Konantz of St. Paul, Minn., joins the WAC in London as a Pfc. Reason: she transferred from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force of the RAF where she'd been serving for almost three years.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

BAR man in Italy

2009-08-26T12:26:00.000-07:00

Pfc. Nakana cleaning his favorite weapon, a BAR.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Buffalo blasts away

2009-08-26T12:23:00.000-07:00

A buffalo goes into action on the beach at Numfor. The crew directs fire on Jap defenders who have dug themselves into the blasted rubble beyond the beach.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Pvt. Henry (Slim) Nakamora

2009-08-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Pvt. Henry (Slim) Nakamora smiles happily as he rests his hands on his hard-working bazooka. With this bazooka, operating the two-man weapon by himself, Slim was able to knock out a German Pz Kw IV tank.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

There will be a ......

2009-08-25T14:46:00.000-07:00

Listen to Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters sing "Hot Time"

when those YANKs go marching in

Taking off with the Tanks

2009-08-25T14:35:00.001-07:00

Read this great eye witness report from Sgt. Walter Peters when he went out with the tanks, on road against the Germans in France.

Read the full article HERE

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Cover 25 Aug 1944

2009-08-25T11:20:00.001-07:00

The man at rest is Cpl. Thomas O'Neal, 2nd Marine Division. He is sitting in front of his M4 tank in the town of Garapan on the island of Saipan after the Japs had been wiped out. Tin roofs and signs provide some makeshift camouflage for the tank.

Photo by YANK photographer Sgt. Bill Young.

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Cover 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

2009-08-25T11:12:00.000-07:00

The well worn, expressive GI shoes were painted by Sgt. George E. Porter Jr., who is with the 5th Photographic Technical Squadron in New Guinea. Sgt. Porter spent six pre-induction years in New York City doing commercial art work with one of the larger advertising agencies. In addition to this, his paintings in the field of fine arts have been exhibited in the 57th Street Galleries in New York and in Florida. The sergeant didn't say whether his own (or somebody else's) brogans served as the models for this painting.

YANK 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Update on David Green

2009-08-25T09:50:00.000-07:00

The following was a comment left by a relative:

David had 12 children, now there are 88 offspring! All in Westminster, Maryland. My grandmother gave me one of these photos. People all over the country sent them to "Parents of CPL. David Green", Westminster, MD.

See more of them on www.ww2dday.com

Thanks for these wonderful comments and updates -- YANK

GI Washing Machine

2009-08-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

Flyers working out of African desert airfields improvise a wash tub by lighting a fire under a British petrol tin so they can do their laundry.

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Golly What Gams!

2009-08-24T19:06:00.000-07:00

Radio City Music Hall Rockettes with plaque made for them from bits of a South Pacific flyers who've picked theses gals as "ideal."

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

German Bazooka

2009-08-21T11:47:00.000-07:00

Sgt. R. D. Shelton, of New Castle, PA., demonstrates the German version of a bazooka, which he found in a slit trench. It's larger than ours, he tells the other three GIs, but not quite as effective.

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Global Outlook

2009-08-20T17:34:00.001-07:00

Read Sgt. Samuel W. Taylor's amusing little article about Mud, Booze. and Babes.

Read the full article HERE

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Cartoon

2009-08-20T16:45:00.000-07:00

"Anything new on my transfer, sir?"

Cartoon by Pvt. Tom Flannery

After the war, Thomas Flannery worked as a free-lance cartoonist in New York, where his work regularly appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, Look, Colliers, Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan.
In 1948 he joined the staff of the Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun where he served as a cartoonist for nine years. He moved to Baltimore and became the first editorial cartoonist for The Evening Sun in 1957. He was the cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun from 1972 until his retirement in 1988.
During his 31-year career, it is estimated that Thomas produced some 7,200 drawings for The Evening Sun and The Sun, many of which were subsequently deposited at the Johns Hopkins University's Eisenhower Library.
Tom died in 1999. Well done Tom.

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

The Road Back

2009-08-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

The road back--and forward. It's all over now for these dejected heinie PWs, but for the Yanks on the right there's a long way ahead just around that turn.

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Deadstock

2009-08-20T16:20:00.000-07:00

"Lying all over the orchards and the roads between them were dead cows and horses--so many that you no longer paid much attention to them."

An account from the upcoming article "Taking off with the Tanks."

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

YANK Cover 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

2009-08-20T14:18:00.000-07:00

Fight's finish...for two groups of men. Casualties are brought aboard an LST on the French coast while in the background, a file of Nazi prisoners plods further from the Fatherland.

YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition

Pvt. Pitts

2009-08-20T09:09:00.000-07:00

Second Air Force, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Leota Lane Pitts, of the famed Lane Sisters, has joined the WACs. The tinsel life of Hollywood and the stage is well behind her now. She still sings like an angel but admits she can't do a single push up.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Weapons Wizard

2009-08-20T09:03:00.000-07:00

M/Sgt. John (Jazz) Magoni of Fort Benning, Ga., recently coped the Legion of Merit for 24 years as weapons instructor in the Infantry School. He's been assistant to the chief of the Weapons Section since 1940.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Wave Winner

2009-08-20T08:56:00.000-07:00

Frances Doyle SK2c has been elected "Miss Air Wave" by her admiring shipmates in a contest held at Floyd Bennett Field, New York.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Cartoon

2009-08-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

"What's so funny about this Sad Sack cartoon?"

Cartoon by Sgt. Syd Landi

Yank 18 Aug 1944

Yaks

2009-08-20T08:35:00.000-07:00

Russian GIS pose with Yak 9s, Red Army fighter planes. These Yaks, manned by Russian pilots, protect U. S. shuttle-bombers as they near Soviet bases.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Security Mission

2009-08-19T19:35:00.000-07:00

Read the exciting story submitted by Pvt. Justin Gray about a harrowing day in the Italian War.

Read the full article HERE

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Sieg Heil!!

2009-08-19T18:02:00.000-07:00

A wounded German officer, his game leg in the air, his other on a pillow, is hauled through the streets of Cherbourg in a cart by two captured German enlisted men.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Prostitutes Charged

2009-08-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

Two French prostitutes climb into a jeep after having been nabbed by U. S. MPs. They were charged with signaling to Germans with a flashlight from their hotel window.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

News From Home

2009-08-19T15:28:00.000-07:00

Read all the news from home wild, wacky, crazy and sometimes dull but always interesting.

Read Maryland to North Dakota HERE

Read Ohio to Wyoming HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Winged Wedding

2009-08-19T13:47:00.000-07:00

Miami, Fla.

S/Sgt. Walt R Johnson of Chicago, Ill., was at the alter getting married here after a long hitch at a bomber base in Greenland where GIs use interphone language all day long.

The chaplain asked him the fateful question: "Do you, Walter take the woman, Helen, to be your lawful wedded Wife?"

Walt nodded nervously.

"Roger," he said.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Hoist

2009-08-19T13:44:00.000-07:00

A U. S. MP applies a dorsal hoist to a lagging German prisoner.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Grateful Civilians

2009-08-19T13:41:00.000-07:00

Grateful civilians dishing out a potful of food to a GI as the U. S. Army returned Cherbourg to it's French Mayor following withdrawal of Nazi troops.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Dog Robber and his Officer

2009-08-19T13:35:00.000-07:00

The arrogant and well-dressed Joe in front is a captured Nazi officer. The gloom-faced character beside him is his dog robber.

A "dog robber" is a term for a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. It is also sometimes refered to as a "batman or batwoman."

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Boys Meet Girls

2009-08-19T13:32:00.000-07:00

Boys meet girls. Shapely Carole Landis and laughing Martha Tilton (who warbled with Benny Goodman's band) pose with Gis in New Guinea.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

YANK 18 Aug 1944

.45 at the ready

2009-08-19T13:29:00.000-07:00

A GI holds his .45 at the ready while German prisoners, their arms above their heads, file by to an American command post.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Sniper Killer

2009-08-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

Read the interesting article by Sgt. Walter Peters about T/Sgt. Frank Kwiatek and his talent for taking out Nazi snipers.

Read the article HERE

Art work by Sgt. Brodie

YANK 18 Aug 1944

German Pointers

2009-08-18T16:49:00.000-07:00

An American soldier stands guard at a Cherbourg crossroads still lousy with lettered pointers left by the retreating Germans.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

VERY VERY

2009-08-18T16:46:00.000-07:00

CHINA

Back in Oklahoma I knew a boy who used to say everything twice. Ask Hazlitt how he was feeling, and he'd say; "I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling line."

Ask him whether it would rain, and he'd say: "If it don't rain, it'll be a long dry spell. Yes sir, if it don't rain, it'll be a long dry spell.”

"Everything Hazlitt says," Eller Ardrey used to remark, "he makes a carbon copy of it." And Ben Holland thought Hazlitt would be a successful advertising man, "because he believes in repetition.”

The other day I ran across Hazlitt out here (in China). "Hazlitt," I asked, "how are you doing?" And he said: "I am doing all right. I am doing all right.”

"Are you getting plenty to eat?" "Plenty to eat. Plenty to eat."

"How do you feel about water-buffalo meat?"

"I like it." His face blanched. His cheeks expanded. He almost exploded. But even Hazlitt couldn't say that twice.

--Pvt. Cal Tinney

YANK Field Correspondent

YANK 18 Aug 1944

New From Home Maryland-North Dakota

2009-08-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

Read clips from "News from Home" Maryland to North Dakota 11 Aug 1944

Read all the news HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Motorcycle Half-track?

2009-08-18T12:30:00.000-07:00

Moving up the lead (in the war in France) a trio is on a captured German NSU half-track motorcycle.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Camping in Russia

2009-08-18T12:28:00.000-07:00

Men of the Eastern Command, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, bunk in a tent in Russia.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

Jack Benny

2009-08-18T12:13:00.000-07:00

Jack Benny makes music for a New Guinea native while fellow members of a USO troupe look and listen.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

YANK 18 Aug 1944

YANK Cover 18 Aug 1944

2009-08-17T22:07:00.000-07:00

At one of our new shuttle-bombing airbases in Russia, S/Sgt. R. E. Robinson of Huntington, W. Va., examines the starred rank insignia of a Red Army woman lieutenant.

Thanks to Pvt. Richard B. Bishop for purchasing this YANK

YANK 18 Aug 1944

FBI Stats Aug 1944

2009-08-16T16:17:00.000-07:00

Read the FBI stats for Aug 1944 HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Makes 88 1/2 Yards with a grenade

2009-08-15T20:06:00.001-07:00

Camp Blanding, Fla

Cpl. Michael Rizzo tossed a grenade 88 1/2 yards to set the new Army record. After reading in YANK that the last pineapple tossing champ was Pvt. Al Blozis with his toss of 65 yards, Michael felt he coud eaisly best that. And he did. He consistantly throws grenades with accuracy 80 yards or better.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

Decorated WAC

2009-08-15T19:56:00.001-07:00

Camp McCoy, Wis.

For her heroic efforts to save the life of a drowning soldier (Pfc. Falvius M Hopkins) Pfc. Mary Jane Ford, 23, has been awarded the Soldier's Medal. Mary is only the second WAC to be decorated with this medal and the only one in the USA.

Unfortunately, even with Mary's heroic attempt Pfc. Hopkins didn't survive.

Mary is the daughter of Maj. Byington Ford, Executive officer of Dayton Army Air Field.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

News From Home

2009-08-15T16:42:00.000-07:00

Veiw our new blog about "News From Home"

This is facinating stuff. This segment is the shorts from the "States" Alabama to Maine.

Read all the News From Home - HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Rockets Aweigh

2009-08-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

Beaufighters of RAF Coastal Command now carry rocket projectiles. Here two streak out, while their gas starts toblanket the plane's tail.

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Halts Runaway Truck

2009-08-15T13:31:00.000-07:00

Sedalia Army Air Field, Mo.

Pvt. Dot Roberts, on her way with two Wac companions to the bus station in a nearby town, suddenly broke away from them and dashed down the street. Civilians who saw her remarked at this unladylike behavior until they saw what she sas up to.

A big empty truck was rolling backward toward a heavy traffic intersection. Dot ran after it and won the race, but not until she'd missed the running board in her first attempt to get aboard and caused bystanders to gasp. She managed to scramble inside the cab and apply the brake, which halted the truck just inches from the nearest civilian automobile.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

Pvt. Arthur Landbish

2009-08-15T13:25:00.000-07:00

Pvt. Arthur Landbish, of New York, member of an MP unit about to enter St. Lo.

(probably to have a discussion with those GIs with all those wine bottles)

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

Squashed six-by-six

2009-08-15T13:18:00.000-07:00

This was a six-by-six, one of our biggest trucks, before it fell into a shellhole on the beach and was ground to wreckage by an LCT. It's crew, left to right: Sgt. Joseph Jojczyk, of Cleveland, o.; S/Sgt. Michael Struyznsk, of Pittsburgh; Sgt. Mike Wonner, of Alliance, o.; Sgt. Chester Kobylinski, of Erie, Pa.; and Lt. John M. Reid, of Worchester, Mass.

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

2009-08-15T13:13:00.000-07:00

Retreating Germans left behind large stores of fine wines, which doesn't annoy Yanks one bit. Connoisseurs can pick out several bottles of Martell's fine old brandy.

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

Don't rest in this grass

2009-08-15T13:10:00.000-07:00

Cpl. Leland Larmon examining a German anti-personnell mine which he has just removed with his bayonet from the tall grass adjoining a road on the outskirts of St. Lo.

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

Cpl. David Green

2009-08-15T10:42:00.000-07:00

Here Cpl. David Green, of Westminster, Md., has dug himself in at a St. Lo cemetery, which came in for a good share of the shelling.

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

YANK Cover 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

2009-08-15T10:37:00.000-07:00

Tanks storming St. Lo.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 13 Aug 1944 British Edition

Windy City Kitty

2009-08-15T10:34:00.000-07:00

"Ever since his return from Guinea he thinks of nothing but new tactics for advances!"

Cartoon by Sgt. Jack Crowe

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Contrast

2009-08-15T10:29:00.001-07:00

Pvt. Buck Goodwin pauses for his partner, Mrs. Kettleson, to get an eyeful of jitterbugging. They're at a sourdough dance in a log-cabin recreation building made from local material on aan island off Alaska. It took nine long months to build the place, but it's worth it.

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Ocean survival with a twist

2009-08-15T09:52:00.000-07:00

I was a Jap aviator swimming frantically toward them. "We didn't know what to do," Platz says. "We could see his slanted eyes. He was waving a pistol in one hand."

Read "Arm's Length From A Jap

Battleship" HERE

Artwork by Sgt. Ruge

YANK 11 Aug 1944

Arm's Length From A Jap Battleship

2009-08-14T18:11:00.001-07:00

Read this amazing story about George H. (Pluto) Platz AMM1c. He bailed out of his aircraft right into the Japanese fleet and lived to tell about it.

"I was close enough to touch a large cable trailing from the battleship."

Photo by Pfc. George Burns

Artwork by Sgt. Ruge

Read the full story HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944

VJ Day 14 Aug 1945

2009-08-14T08:24:00.000-07:00

YANK 7 Sept 1945

Call Ripley

2009-08-13T16:39:00.000-07:00

Call Ripley--Believe it or not, Earl N. Phillips, seaman from Radford, Va., fell off a ship in mid-Atlantic. About half an hour later a Coast Guard DE happened along. Result: an invigorating dip for Earl.

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Burma Girls

2009-08-13T16:24:00.000-07:00

First Red Cross girls in Burma: Maxine Robertson, Portland, Oreg.; Mary Rogan, Glendale, Ohio; Judy Fitch, Hudson, Ohio; Star Giddy, New Your City.

Photo by Ted Frutkoff

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Cartoon

2009-08-13T16:19:00.000-07:00

"I suppose youv'e got me on detail again today."

Cartoon by Pvt. Frederick Wildfoerster

YANK exclaimes on this issue that they "are sick of desert island cartoons, too. These are the last ones we'll ever publish."

YANK 11 Aug 1944

YANK Cover 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

2009-08-13T16:07:00.000-07:00

Service with a smile, says Cpl. Louis (Gunga Din) Cziperle, as he totes a bunch of water-filled canteens to his thirsty comrades on Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea. Louis would perfer the kind of water they have to drink back in his home town, East Chicago, Ind.--but there's a war in the way.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Janet Blair

2009-08-13T13:32:00.000-07:00

Janet Blair YANK Pin-up Girl for 11 Aug 1944. Janet was a Hollywood actress who was born as Martha Jane Lafferty. Her stage name was taken from the Pennsylvania county (Blair) where she grew up. Janet appeared in about 54 films and televisions shows from 1941 to 1991. She also was the lead in "South Pacific" for about 1200 performances.

She died in 2007 at age of 85. She was about 23 when this picture was taken.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

No Traveler

2009-08-13T13:24:00.000-07:00

In 18 years of Army duty, S/Sgt George Wallace of Camp Lee, Va., has had a total of two furloghs. Don't let your top kick see this item.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

Pistol Packers

2009-08-13T13:19:00.001-07:00

Two Marines at U. S. Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla., Pfc. June Higdon and Cpl. Anna Ward, squeeze six-guns on the pistol range.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

YANK Cover 11 Aug 1944

2009-08-13T12:56:00.000-07:00

During the campaign on Wakde, Netherlands New Guinea, YANK's Sgt. Dick Hanley made this unusual close-up. One look at the soldier's face, the way he hugs his hole and grips his tommy gun, tells you the picture was made up front. To make things tougher, he carries heavy radio equipment.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

The Battle for St. Lo - Part 3

2009-08-12T17:36:00.000-07:00

Read the battle for St. Lo by YANK's third correspondent on the scene.

...and then St. Lo was freed

By Sgt. Walter Peters

Read the full story HERE

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

The 29th's Flag over St. Lo

2009-08-12T17:31:00.000-07:00

"Brother, isn't that a pretty sight!" The 29th's flag (above the tank) flies over the fiercely contested town of St. Lo, meaning that the Yanks have arrived.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Flag Draped Buddy

2009-08-12T17:26:00.000-07:00

On the ruins of a St. Lo church lies the flag-draped body of an American major, who vowed he'd reach the town but was killed leading his battalion through the outskirts of St. Lo. His men brought him in to the town to fulfill his promise.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Battle for St. Lo - Part 2

2009-08-11T17:19:00.000-07:00

Read the very interesting report from St. Lo in this second of three parts.

Part Two is titled simply:

Meanwhile, Outside St. Lo...

By Sgt Bill Davidson

Read the full story HERE

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Crawling in St. Lo

2009-08-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

The Yanks have arrived--but they've still got plenty to do before they can rest or celebrate. Here's the position from which many Joes found it safest to see the sights of St. Lo for some time after the town had officially changed hands.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

The Battle for St. Lo

2009-08-08T16:23:00.000-07:00

In other summers, back home, hedgerows were something poets wrote about and orchards were where apples came from. This summer, in Normandy, hedgerows and orchards--in seemingly endless number--form the grim setting for a unique kind of warfare in which many a GI has staked his life. On the following pages, three YANK correspondents give a panoramic account of what life has been like for the men who have been struggling forward on the American front--south of La Haye du Puits and on the way to St. Lo.

Read Part 1 written by Sgt. Saul Levitt, "South through the Hedgerows."

Read the full story HERE

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Dirty Work

2009-08-08T14:49:00.001-07:00

In more ways than one. A couple of steel-nerved Yanks get down to the unpleasant business of removing teller mines from this bridge on a road to La Haye du Puits.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

News from Home

2009-08-07T20:21:00.000-07:00

New York

Twelve women electricians and welders became the first of their sex to hold jobs in the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn.

Four hundred German prisoners of war, the first of a contingent of 1,000, arrived at Fort Niagara for assignment to farms and food-processing plaants in the area.

Ohio

Cincinnati has women street cleaners and a woman elevator operator in City Hall, all because of the manpower shortage.

An 11-day strike of bakery drivers in six major Toledo plants over wages and overtime provisions ended when drivers finally obeyed a National War Labor Board back-to-work order.

South Carolina

Moses Nevins strangled to death a wildcat that attacked him at night while he was walking along Highway No. 1 south of Cheraw.

Texas

Mrs. Lester Renfrow of Dallas announced that her baby daughter born on D Day would be named Invasia.

The Harrison Cunty Jail in Marshall was empty for the first time in 17 years.

Virginia

Moonshining was staging a come-back in the Old Dominion State; Federal agents confiscated 57 stills in May, the largest number in a single month in 2 1/2 years.

Pedesrians who walk against a red light in Richmond, may be fined 50 cents to $5 under a new ordinance.

Washington

Castor oil was prescribed for Tacoma school children by a jokester who represented himself as a school physician when he telephoned their parents.

Hoquiam's City Council passed an ordinance providing for fines and jail sentences for proprietors of establishments who permit minors to play pinball machines.

Wisconsin

Air-conditioning equipment in 50 percent of Milwaukee's bars, restaurants, stores and other establishments will not operate this summer because freon, the refrigerant in small cooling systems, is being used almost exclusively by the armed forces.

The state announced that mororists must get along next year with the same license plates they have used since 1942.

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Japanese comment

2009-08-07T17:28:00.000-07:00

A high Japanese military spokesman recently made a rather plaintive remark. "Our island air bases in the Pacific are unsinkable," he said dolefully, "but they are not very maneuverable."

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Windy City Kitty

2009-08-07T17:20:00.000-07:00

"Thank heaven you didn't drop in five minutes ago--I didn't have a bit of makeup on."

Cartoon by Sgt. Jack Crowe

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Cape Gloucester

2009-08-07T17:07:00.000-07:00

At Cape Gloucester with the Marines, Sgt. Dick Hanley got this YANK shot of a MG position from between the lines.

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

News from Home

2009-08-07T16:04:00.000-07:00

Arkansas

Dr. Walter Allison, 75-year-old Hope physician who was to face a grand jury on charges of violating the Federal narcotics law, was shot to death in his office after he had attempted to shoot two Federal agents who had gone there to question him.

California

San Francisco's Police Chief Dullea authorized employment of women traffic cops as a means of solving the department's manpower shortage.

California was reported by the Selective Service in Washington to have more draft dodgers than any other state--5,000 of the nations's 30,000.

Connecticut

Dr. William Wrang, who had arranged a golf exhibition match at the Edgewood Country Club in Middletown featuring Gene Sarazen, was called away to perform an appendectomy; he returned before the end of the match with the appendix in a vial.

Henry Rosenstock, known to Yale students as Henry of Mory's died in a New Haven hospital after serving students in the famous eating place for 32 years.

District of Columbia

The Maritime Commission announced that a Liberty ship will be named for Edward Savoy, a Negro who before his death at the age of 88 last summer had served as messenger to 22 U.S. Secretaries of State over a period of 64 years.

Florida

Because of a shortage of towels, Jacksonville swimmers who use the municipal pools were asked to bring their own.

Illinois

With the death of Francis Waterman of Rockford and Frank Hocking of Fairfield, both 99 years old, only 15 survivors of the Civil War were left in Illinois.

Iowa

A house-to-house canvas of Cedar Rapids by the Junior Chamber of Commerce disclosed 124 persons available for work in war industries.

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Sad Sack Beer Party

2009-08-07T15:26:00.000-07:00

Sad Sack for YANK's 1 year anniversary Down Under Edition.

Cartoon by Sgt. George Baker

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Scoreboard

2009-08-07T15:22:00.001-07:00

Pvt. James O'Banner of Memphis, Tenn., first Negro infantryman to kill a Jap, notches his carbine. He scored the kill on a patrol at Bougainville, where the 93rd Division saw its first action.

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Diana Lewis

2009-08-07T15:16:00.001-07:00

Diana Lewis appeared in about 19 films. She was married to William Powell until his death in 1984. Diana died in 1997 of cancer. She was about 25 in this picture.

YANK Pin-up Girl 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

The Old Rangers Come Home

2009-08-07T13:42:00.001-07:00

The Rangers come home and bring stories of their though campaigns in Africa and Europe.

Story by Sgt. Mack Morriss YANK Staff Writer

Read the full story HERE.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

No Birdie

2009-08-07T13:38:00.001-07:00

No birdie is necessary at Buckingham Army Air Field, Fla., with Pvt. Miriam Lenig behind the camera. What GI wouldn't look, and without coaxing?

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Residue

2009-08-07T11:44:00.000-07:00

Residue of the battle for St. Lo, flanked by a typical hedgerow. Tanks in the background are ready to move.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Paulette Goddard

2009-08-06T21:38:00.000-07:00

Now Come See Us! Paulette Goddard, back home agter a 38,000-mile trip entertaining GIs in China-India-Burma Theater. That's a memento giver her by Gen. Joe Stilwell.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the age of 13. She made about 59 films in hollywood from 1929 to 1972. She was also married to Charlie Chapman and Burgess Meredith. She died in 1990 of a heart attack. She was about 34 when this picture was taken.

GOOD LUCK

2009-08-06T14:25:00.000-07:00

Cpl. Bertha Santos, USMC, helps launch the destroyer, "Hanna," named for her late sweetheart, William Hanna, of Carlson's Raiders. Hanna's mother watches.

YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

William T. Hanna was a Marine private who fought heroically on Guadalcanal. "Fighting desperately in hand-to-hand combat against overwhelming hostile forces, Private Hanna refused to be dislodged from his position and after exacting a tremendous toll of the enemy, heroically died at his post."

USS Hanna served the Navy from 1944 until 1959.

Paper Chase

2009-08-06T14:14:00.000-07:00

Pvt. Thomas F. Wilson's mail in the ETO was light since his outfit was always on the move. Now, at Fort Benning, GA., 220 letters catch up with him.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Cover 6 Aug 1944

2009-08-06T12:55:00.001-07:00

Cover for YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Diana Mumby YANK Pin-up Girl

2009-08-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

Diana Mumby appeared in about 30 Hollywood movies from 1940 to 1956. She died in 1974.

YANK Pin-up Girl for 4 Aug 1944

Sad Sack - The Victor

2009-08-05T16:49:00.000-07:00

Cartoon by Sgt. George Baker

Click on picture for larger view.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Great shot

2009-08-05T16:22:00.001-07:00

Cpl. Robert M. Bevan of Estherville, Iowa, a sniper throughout the North African campaigns, knocked out an Italian machine-gun position at 1350 - yard range.

Photo by Sgt. Ben Schnall

YANK 4 Aug 1944