Prepping a Rogers' Raider

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's a lot different from his Army studies in engineering at Purdue ASTP.

Photo by Sgt. Reg Kenny

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

The Noise

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

Photo by Sgt. Reg Kenny

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Portrait of a Tired Soldier

An army advances because the individual doughs in the line advance.  Most of them keep movig; some of them fall; others, like Pfc. Joseph F. Leradi of Philadelphia, Pa., do their job until weariness is etched in every line of their bodies.  YANK's Pfc. Pat Coffey made this photo at the 80th Division field hospital on the Third Army front.

YANK  11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Cover 11 Mar 1945 Continental Edition

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.

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Schweinfurt Raid

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

Read the article HERE

Thoughts on the Huertgen Forest

...The infantry, free from the claustrophobia of the Huertgen Forest, went on, but behind them they left their dead, and the forest will stink with deadness long after the last body is removed. The forest will bear the scars of our advance long after our own scars have healed, and the Infantry has scars that will never heal.

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...

--Sgt. Mack Morriss

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GI Washing Machine

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

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

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

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

The Army's Gypsy-Builders

Read about The Army's Gypsy-Builders in this article by Sgt. Saul Levitt. Armies can not move without the "Engineers."

Artwork by Sgt. John Scott.

Read the article over these 3 pages. Page 4, Page 5, and Page 6.

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YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

Triple Duty

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.

Interesting side note... the former post about Ann Savage has a link to this post. You will read where a ground crew member kept trying to see a movie called "Dangerous Blonde(s)," which was interupted over and over again to prepare for these missions. Ann Savage was one of the stars in that movie. Ironically on the same day that I posted the pin up shot, Turner Classic Movies showed "Dangerous Blondes" for the first time on TV. Things are funny that way sometimes.

View the entire article "Triple Duty" by Pfc. Bill Hennerfrund HERE.

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