No Traveler

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Cartoon by Sgt. George Baker

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Scoreboard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cover for YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition

Diana Mumby YANK Pin-up Girl

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

Cartoon by Sgt. George Baker

Click on picture for larger view.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Great shot

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

Lucky Marine

On Siapan, a Jap bullet passed through the helmet that this Marine, patched up by medics, hangs onto as a lucky piece.

Photo by Ken Harris CphoM, USCG

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Sgt. Sherman Legg

Sgt. Sherman Legg of Handley, W. Va., pulled one out of the hat when he shot down a strafing Messerschmitt-110 with his BAR on the beach at Gela, Sicily.

Photo by Sgt. Ben Schnell

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Kilt Inspection

This Italian girl seems a little uncertain about the whole thing as she gives a once-over to the pleated kilts of the Highland pipe major in Rome.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Double Smacker

Double Smacker. Pvt. Warren Runyan, A Vancouver (Wash.) boy in France, is a bit shy as two enthusiastic Frenchmen embrace him in celebration of the fall of Cherbourg.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Taste of their own medicine

On Saipan, Jap GIs got a taste of their own medicine when Marines captured this 70-mm infantry howitzer and put it to use firing against its former owners. Built for a short soldier, it can still throw a 14-lb. projectile 7,600 yards to enemy lines.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Cover 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

This is the "one year" anniversary issue for YANK Down Under Edition.

YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Cover 4 Aug 1944

Cover showing T/Sgt. Francis P. Padrucco of Miami, Gls., a member of the 1st Ranger Battalion. He's just as tough a fighter as he looks in this photograph by YANK's Sgt. Ben Schnall.

This issue was purchased by S/Sgt. Wilbur E Riley of New Carlisle, Ohio.

YANK 4 Aug 1944

Sgt. Lewis Siegel

Sgt. Lewis Siegel, commander of D Battery's Gun No. 3, keeps in touch by phone with his CP and calls the orders which enable "Ike" to get in her lethal jabs at enemy planes.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

GUN NO.3

Ike and her crew didn't come ashore on D-Day, but when they did they played their part well, protecting a vital airstrip on one side of them and a couple of divisions of infantry on the other; they fought enemy snipers hidden in the hedgerows, captured prisoners, and destroyed an unknown number of enemy aircraft. This is a story of only one ack-ack crew, but it is typical of many others.

Read the full story HERE

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Nazi Nurses

Nazi nurses, captured during Yank advance in Normandy, await repatriation.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Marjory Munn

Marjory Munn dies at 88. Thanks for your service Marj.

Hot Spot

A GI fires his BAR as two Italian partisans lie low behind a pile of debris. The Italians came along to guide the patrol to the concealed German positions.

The Nemi Vally, near Rome, is a pleasent center of the wine-grape business. Or was before the war moved in. Into this valley went a scouting patrol of American infantrymen, guided by Italian partisans. With them went Sgt. George Aarons, YANK photographer. The patrol found German strength much greater than expected. Its members had to fight their way out, through clearings raked by German machine-gun fire, to return to their base of operations.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Cartoon

"...and we should do it this summer...for soon we shall have to contend with the adverse weather conditions of winter..."

by Pvt Tom Flannery

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

50,000th shell

In France, Pvt. Tony Adenucio, of Pueblo, Colo., who fired one of the first rounds against the Afrika Korps at El Guettar, loads the 50,000th round his unit has sent against the Nazis.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

War Bakery

GI bakers toil in first Army mobile kitchen in Normandy, turning out 27,500 pounds of bread every 24 hours.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Prisoner

Sgt. Lloyd Ackerman, of Fairlee, Vt., the gent with the rifle in the foreground, is taking no chances while "escorting" his Nazi captive to the rear lines in Normandy.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Taking La Haye du Puits - part 2

Read the second part of the Taking of La Haye du Puits by Sgt. Saul Levitt

Read it HERE

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Taking La Haye du Puits - part 1

Sgt. Walter Peters wrote a story for YANK which appeared in the 30 July 1944 British Edition.

Read this story HERE

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Hedgerow after hedgerow

Hedgerow by hedgerow and ditch by ditch, Yank infantrymen have been wresting Normandy from invading Nazis and restoring it to it's rightful owners. Here some of the hardfighting boys take cover under fire as a Sherman tank rumbles past.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Dead Nazi

Yank infantrymen press on past a dead Nazi parptrooper near La Haye du Puits.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition.

Bazooka Ed

Pvt. Ed Cross, infantryman from Indianapolis, guards a railroad track near the French town (La Haye du Puits) with his bazooka.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition.

YANK Cover

This is the cover for YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Form Fitting Foxhole

This form-fitting foxhole is home to a weary GI in Normandy.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

Angela Greene

This is Angela Greene. She was the YANK Pin-up Girl for 30 July 1944 British Editiion.

She was a Hollywood movie star. She appeared in 83 movies or television shows. The last being Beretta in 1976. She was rumored to be one of JFK's girlfriends.

She died in 1978 of a stroke.

YANK 30 July 1944 British Edition

WWII Poster

Sorry. Along with a computer crash, we lost our web site. Any older posts from this point, that advise you to go "HERE" or view a PDF file have been lost. The newer posts above are now stored on Goggle sites which should last forever. We will try to repost some of the older posts again using Goggle sites or blogs so you can once again read them. Thank you for your understanding.

New Comments

After more than a year we recieved two comments in one week.

One notes a of a picture on this blog about hero Dewitt H. French not only from WWII but the Korean Conflict as well; from his adoring daughter Betty.

http://yankmagazine.blogspot.com/2006/09/field-promotions.html

A comment was left from a fan (Alex) of Deanna Durbin's (a Yank Girl) among many other accomplishments. Alex has set up a web site honoring her.

http://deannadurbindevotees.com/general-f6/military-t192.htm#2446

Yank Cover

Thirsty Pfc. Grant Crawford of Moline, Ill., found the going cooler and smoother in Germany after he drank beer out of a German stein. He is an engineer with the 26th Infantry Division.

YANK 25 May 1945

Yank Cover

YANK Cover for 30 Nov 1945

Cartoon

This cartoon appeared in the very last issue of Yank, 28 Dec 1945, in a two page spread of cartoons wraping up the magazine.

This cartoon is by Sgt. Frank Brandt