Cheta and Nancy

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.

Read more about Nancy Kelly: HERE

YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

Alberto Varga(s)

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.

Read more about Alberto Vargas: HERE

YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

Excuse Me Son!

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.

YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

Air Portrait

Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force leave vapor "tracks" behind. The curved trails shooting upward were made by accompanying fighter planes.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Fleetfoot

Fleetfoot messenger at Arawe. War cancelled the 1940 Olympic track hopes of Pfc. Wallace Grant, Pima Indian of Laveen, Ariz.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Good NonCom Material

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.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Yanks for Sale

Pfc. Oscar Spielberg, who used to pedal "Duh Joinal" in the Bronx, not peddles "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" at an 8th Air Force Fighter Station in the ETO.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Interesting we think of something quite different when we combine the words Oscar and Spielberg today.

Jeep Bus

22-passenger Jeep (or did we miss one?) makes a handy portable classroom for a batch of English schoolboys out to learn how the Yanks do things.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Claire Luce Decorated

Decorated. Actress Claire Luce returns to America from England, loaded with insignia from soldiers she'd been entertaining.

Claire made about 12 movies from 1930 to 1955. She was about 39 when this picture was taken. She passed away in New York in 1989.

YANK 29 Nov 1942

Soft Pinch

If only all MPs were like Republic's movie starlet Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were line Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were like Helen Talbot.

Helen was a Hollywood actress from Kansas who was credited with making at least 18 movies from 1943 to 1946. She left Hollywood behind when she married an ex navy pilot in 1946. She was about 20 when this picture was taken.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Mess Trench

To protect themselves from strafing by the Luftwaffe, Ninth Air Force GIs in France get their chow served from a tent-covered underground kitchen and form their chow line in a trench.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Persian Posters

Railroading GIs bunking at Camp Atterbury, Iran, have this homey baseball scoreboard. PX gripes get taken for a ride in the cigarette and razor-blade ads.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Irish

Three times 1st Sgt. Thomas E. Valentine refused to go to OCS. He feared he'd be shifted from the 27th Division, New York's Fighting Irish. His obstinacy paid off and, in the hospital with wounds received fighting at Saipan, he got a direct commission as a second lieutenant with his beloved 27th.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Fisherman in France

Sgt. "Hooks" Hill, a Fort Worth (Tex.) boy came to France on a tour conducted by the 3d infantry Division, pauses to drop a line in the Doube River near Avanne for old times' sake.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Hawaiian Honey

Usually people in far-away lands don’t check with the ideas you get in the movies. Hawaii’s May Moniz is a lovely exception.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Veteran Chef

Paul Vallee, 70, working in the Metz mess of S/Sgt. Louis Bruno, cooked for Gen. Pershing in the last war.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Would-Be WACS

In Puerto Rico, smiling Wac Sgt. Mary Lou Hayes passes out test papers to these four attractive young senoritas who have just volunteered to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Tokyo Milestone

This is the volcano Fujiyama as seen through the nose of a B-29 Superfort on its way to bomb Tokyo. Superfort crews make use of the volcano as a guide to the Jap capital.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Field Promotions

Fifth Army noncoms are awarded commissions in Italy. In the rear are Lt. Donald R. Sprow, Lt. DeWitt H. French and Lt. Peter DeAugustine

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Trick Dog

Irving Chornus holds a hoop for Hi-Ki, a Doberman pinscher in the K-9 Corps, New Caledonia.

YANK 2 Feb 1945