YANK Magazine-The Army Weekly

Sgt. Herbert P. Allensbach, Forest Hills, N.Y., who was voted best cook in the Ninth Air Force.  He's a whizz with powdered eggs. ...

One of Howard Brodie's amazing sketches.  From the Library of Congress.

John J. Wilpers Jr ., the Army intelligence officer who helped arrest Hideki Tojo in 1945, dies. Read the Washington post article HERE ...

Read the story of The Five Day Attack on Hastings Ridge by Sgt. Mack Morris Read the story HERE

S/Sgt. J. O. Clayton (right) in Noumea, New Caledonia, woke up two Medic Captains, R. O. Moore and H. R. Willard , to cure his dog's...

Not a minstrel show but a night patrol across the Roer impels Pvt. Ed Diamond of Rogers' Raiders to put on lamp-blacking.  This job...

In the fight for Duren a mortar burst temporarily deafened T/Sgt. John Demeduk , platoon sergeant, at the Roer crossing. Photo by Sgt. R...

An army advances because the individual doughs in the line advance.  Most of them keep movig; some of them fall; others, like Pfc. Joseph ...

These tank destroyers accompanying the Eighth Infantry Division, First Army, down the main street of Duren, Germany, are the first U. S. a...

Read the story about the Schweinfurt Raid in the B-17 Flying Fortress named YANK.  By Sgt. Walter Peters Read the article HERE

YANK Pin Up girl for 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition.  Patricia Dane .  She was a young starlet in the 40's.  She acted in about 16 mo...

...The infantry, free from the claustrophobia of the Huertgen Forest, went on, but behind them they left their dead, and the forest will st...

Read the short article about one amazing LST and it's hard working crew.  The article was written by    Cpl. OZZIE ST. GEORGE YANK ...

Read some of the interesting and wacky news stories from home; taken from the 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition. Read HERE

Sgt. Stanley V. Sowa , with an aircraft-warning outfit in Panama, saved his fellow GIs from almost starving when he took over the mess ca...

Read "Jungle War" in YANK Stories.  This was an article taken from a wounded soldier's intelligence report of the fight in New...

The weary tank commander catching fourty winks is Sgt. Westly E. Stewart of Los Angeles.  With the rest of the First Armored Division, h...

The Jap 75mm antiaircraft gun of 1928 vintage was captured in New Guinea and sent by Ordnance Intelligence men to an information and t...

GOODENOUGH ISLAND—(Papua New Guinea) That peculiarly loathsome detail, hauling sand, has suddenly taken on quite an allure for the enlist...

Read the short article on Bloody Basin in the war in Italy in 1944 by Sgt. Burgess Scott Read it HERE YANK 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Editi...

Read the excerpt from "The Best of Yank" introduction; a book put together by the editors of YANK magazine in 1944.  Read it HERE ...

Read the funny story about the Stolen Stripper . http://yankstories.blogspot.com/2013/02/stolen-stripper.html  

  Update on Audrey McClure.  Click HERE  or http://yankupdates.blogspot.com/2013/02/update-for-audrey-mcclure.html

This weeks cover is Audrey McClure , wife of M/Sgt. James H. McClure of Chevy Chase, Md. Her beauty and "All-American" charm w...

M/Sgt. Clifford Stoner and his lucky .50-cal.  A ground man in New Guinea, he brought down a Zero first time he ever fired a machine gun....

His carbine resting within easy grabbing distance, Pfc. Russell Smith of my Monona, Iowa, toys with a light lunch of K rations in his fox...

These are Germans evacuating Rome. Before any Allied troops entered the capital city, and Italian took these pictures of the withdrawing...

These German paratroopers are young and have not fought long. Now they are prisoners, captured after fierce action outside Velletri, bel...

German sniper has grandstand seat in a jeep procession in France. Vehicle mounts two machine guns, one .50 caliber and one. 30 light.

Rangers climbed up this rope ladder to surprise and silence a Jerry gun crew at the cliff's top.  Part of D-Day operations. YANK 7 ...

When in Rome, hold a Roman baby and be popular with the populace, says Pvt. Ben Pollack who was among the first American soldiers to ente...

Pvt. James O'Banner of Memphis Tennessee, first Negro infantryman to kill a Jap, notches his carbine. He scored the kill on a patrol at...

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 ...

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 Ed...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia 2nd Lt. Ernest Moser of Sagiknaw, Mich., is a persistent guy, which is an understatement if you ever saw one. Moser joined the A...

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 w...

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 acti...

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...

"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 E...

YANK 25 Aug 1944

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...

Pfc. Nakana cleaning his favorite weapon, a BAR. YANK 25 Aug 1944

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 b...

Pvt. Henry (Slim) Nakamora smiles happily as he rests his hands on his hard-working bazooka. With this bazooka, operating the two-man weap...

Listen to Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters sing "Hot Time" when those YANKs go marching in

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 th...

The man at rest is Cpl. Thomas O'Neal , 2 nd Marine Division. He is sitting in front of his M4 tank in the town of Garapan on the isl...

The well worn, expressive GI shoes were painted by Sgt. George E. Porter Jr. , who is with the 5th Photographic Technical Squadron in New G...

The following was a comment left by a relative : David had 12 children, now there are 88 offspring! All in Westminster, Maryland. My grandmo...

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 laund...

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