In Italy, the gallant T-5 Sal Cannizzo helps French ambulance driver Nanou Calas with her knitting.When the going is tough, French Ambulance Girls in Italy dream of Paris Days. Read this little story by Sgt. Ralph G. Martin.
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YANK 31 March 1944
This is the cover shot of the YANK 31 March 1944. The story is "Surprise Party at Eniwetok" by Sgt. Merle Miller. The eight photographs shot for this article were taken by Sgt. John A. Bushemi who lost his life in this fight. The following is an excerpt:
Gimme candy, Sad Sack!
Gloria Anderson was the YANK Pin-up Girl for 31 March 1944 (American Edition).
Pvt. Donald R. Hargrove trained at Camp Callan, Calif., for 12 weeks before confessing he was 13 years old. He will be discharged. The other Hargrove shaves every day.
Less glamorous perhaps, but she likes it. WAC Pvt. Dorothy Hamilton was a night-club dancer, now she drives and repair4s tanks at Newport News, Va.
Just check the lines and find any spot you want. Pin-up girls are now making map reading more exciting for trainees in the 22d Air Base Squadron at Lowry Field, Colo. 1st Sgt. Richard P. Bates, overseas veteran of both World Wars, is demonstrating this "visual aid" to willing students.
Do what you like, I'm staying! Caliche, a baby wildcat adopted by the 61st Aviation Squadron at Moore Field, Tex., is disputing William S. Rice's claim to be first sergeant.
Priscilla Cranstoun of New York recieves congratulations from Lt. Comdr. Howard Prentice in Boston, Mass., as the first SPAR chief petty officer. She enlisted in the Coast Guard a year ago. They certainly can pick 'em.
These holes which T-5 Vaugh Chadbourne of Camp Adair, Oreg., is fingering were made by a .30-caliber bullet from a captured U. S. rifle fired at him by a Jap on Attu.
Yes you. It's a terrible thing to face eight first sergeants. They are all in the 260th QM Railhead Co., Camp Beale, Calif. Pointing at T-5 J.DeVito, (L to R) H. L. Montgomery, J. C. Bosch, Harold Kays, Harry Barker, William E . Baularige, A. J. Caiaccid, J. A. Wingard and William J. Lynch.
Saturday Evening Post Cover for 20 March 1943
Don't cry, little kraut! These three plump Germans were careless; they got captured (near Anzio).
Little Joe with his "Guardian," T-5 Joe Fillippo. After his father and mother were killed by bombs near Anzio, he was adopted by a Yank artillery outfit.
Nurses Victoria Hansen (left) and Carrie Sheetz inspect a German pillbox in the Anzio-Nettuno area of combat. It never fired.
A tank destroyer on the alert, camouflaged with hay.
These soldiers near the front in Italy have burrowed caves into a haystack.
Photo by Sgt. George Aarons
YANK 31 March 1944
After 23 days and nights of fighting in the dark jungles of New Britain, these marines are going to get a rest. Waiting at Cape Gloucester for all the men of their unit to climb aboard the trucks that will carry them to the rear, they have the marks of front-line fighters bitten deep in their faces.
The landing craft coxswain was the symbol and fiber of the amphibious force. Exposed to enemy fire as he steered his craft to shore, the lives of thirty-six infantrymen in his small LCVP were his responsibility. If he failed in his mission of landing these troops, the strategy of admirals went for naught; the bombardment of a naval force alone could never gain a foothold on the hostile and contested shore. Prairie boy or city lad, the coxswain became a paragon of courageous determination and seamanship.Dwight C. Shepler painted and recorded the Navy’s warfare ranging from the Guadalcanal to the D-Day invasion. He was awarded the Bronze Star medal for his work as a combat artist. Shepler painted more than 300 combat scenes compiling a dramatic history of the war. After the war, Shepler continued his career as a pioneer water colorist of the high ski country and served as president of the Guild of Boston Artists.
Read this entire issue of YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition HERE
Read about The Army's Gypsy-Builders in this article by Sgt. Saul Levitt. Armies can not move without the "Engineers."
Discover the art work of Jack Coggins, YANK artist working from the British Edition field office at this web site
Three raids in 24 hours kept everybody at this Marauder base busy. Read about the crew of the "Sad Sack, Jr." Pictured are Lt. Phillip G Haglund, Cpl. Edward F Anderson, and T/Sgt. James R. Jordan.
YANK Pin Up Girl for 17 March 1944 British Edition - Ann Savage
Sad Sack - First Come-First Served By Sgt. George BakerYANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
Cheta the Chimp kisses Nancy Kelly while a couple of Joes look on. Cheta (he's 4-F, and over the age limit anyway) and Nancy are to star in a forthcoming movie.YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
He knows his babes like you know your rifle. Alberto Varga, the "Esquire" artist, scktches some lovelies for a mural to adorn the top of a Manhattan theater.YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
"At first I had a devil of a time getting used to driving on the left side."
W.H. Hill SF2c, of Montgomery, Ala., cuts in on his son, M/Sgt. W. L. Hill, of ditto, during a dance which both attended during a two-man family reunion in London. The young lady in question is Wac Sgt. Geraldine Brennan, of Glens Falls, N. Y.
Read this entire issue of YANK Magazine: HERE
Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force leave vapor "tracks" behind. The curved trails shooting upward were made by accompanying fighter planes.
Read about one of the first raids on the Marshall Islands. Cpl. Larry McManus was one of first correspondents to fly in an attack on the Jap bases in the Marshalls. He tells how his B-25 blasted the enemy with its 75-mm gun.
During the long days of searching Jap sea lanes, submariners off duty kill time, reading, writing, and listening to the radio.
Fleetfoot messenger at Arawe. War cancelled the 1940 Olympic track hopes of Pfc. Wallace Grant, Pima Indian of Laveen, Ariz.
Good Noncom Material is Angelo Micciulla, who keeps his family of 10 children in line and at the same time makes a living driving a truck. Despite his 10 deferments, Micciulla has been classified 1-A.
I wish the CO wasn't such a bug on tight formation.YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Sgt. Joe Louis, on Jan. 13, the first day of his third year in the Army. Louis told GIs at Camp Wheeler, Ga., where he's stationed, that he wanted (1) a furlough, which he got; )2) overseas duty, which he'll get; (3) another bout with Conn.
The Poets CorneredI know a little native gal
From down Moresby way
She coudln't hold a candle
To the babes way up by Lae
She's homely and she's ugly
With a ring through her nose
But she's the one I love
Because she washes all my clothes!
By Cpl. Gene Schneider
Chili Williams, YANK Pin Up Girl for 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition.
FireWomen. They've got to revise the one about "Fireman, Save My Child!" in Laurel, Md. Mrs. G Beall (left) and Mrs. G. Hofmann have replaced two male "firemen."
Tall, brunette Dorothy Williams takes over the controls of a subway-elevated train in Philadelphia and becomes the city's first El motorwoman.
