Rookie Veteran

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

Pvt. Pitts

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

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

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

Makes 88 1/2 Yards with a grenade

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

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

Halts Runaway Truck

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

Contrast

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

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

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

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

Back For More

Camp Claiborne, La. - T-5 Sam Kellman, a member of the 780th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Co., EUTC, was a lance corporal in the Royal Canadian forces during the first World War. Kellman enlisted at Montreal in 1914 at the age of 14, after an attempt to enter the U. S. Army (had failed).

He fought for two years on the Meuse front and near Metz, where he recieved a leg wound. Later he was gassed on the Gaza front in Egypt where he was captured by the Germans and held a prisoner for two years. He wears the Victory Cross and King George Medal, awarded to him for saving the life of a major during an artillery barrage.

YANK 31 March 1944

See Here!

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.

YANK 31 March 1944

Male Pin-Ups

Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. - Navy airmen came out on the short end of the pin-up contest here recently when a group of Waves polled their choices. On a slate nominated entirely by the Navy women, three AAF officers took the top three places.

YANK 31 March 1944

New Job

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.

YANK 31 March 1944

Sweet Girlfriend

Camp Crowder, Mo. - Pvt. Francis Tann got a letter from his girl telling him that she had herself a new boy friend. Then Tann learned that the ex-sweetheart had used his car, which he had lent her for the duration, on dates with the new boy friend. Tann found out also that the War Bonds he had bought and put in her name were to be used to underwrite the honeymoon (of the new couple).

Not all the members of the greatest generation were great.

YANK 31 March 1944

Easy Reading

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.

YANK 31 March 1944

Book Boomerang

Camp Van Dorn, Miss. - Pvt. Harvey B. Vogel of the 255th Infantry loaned a book to a friend 17 years ago in Jersey City. The other day, while going through a shipment of old books sent by the USO for company day rooms, Vogel found the book again.

YANK 31 March 1944

Rivalry

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.

YANK 31 March 1944