German Bazooka

Sgt. R. D. Shelton, of New Castle, PA., demonstrates the German version of a bazooka, which he found in a slit trench. It's larger than ours, he tells the other three GIs, but not quite as effective.

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Global Outlook

Read Sgt. Samuel W. Taylor's amusing little article about Mud, Booze. and Babes.

Read the full article HERE

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Cartoon

"Anything new on my transfer, sir?"

Cartoon by Pvt. Tom Flannery

After the war, Thomas Flannery worked as a free-lance cartoonist in New York, where his work regularly appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, Look, Colliers, Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan.

In 1948 he joined the staff of the Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun where he served as a cartoonist for nine years. He moved to Baltimore and became the first editorial cartoonist for The Evening Sun in 1957. He was the cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun from 1972 until his retirement in 1988.

During his 31-year career, it is estimated that Thomas produced some 7,200 drawings for The Evening Sun and The Sun, many of which were subsequently deposited at the Johns Hopkins University's Eisenhower Library.

Tom died in 1999. Well done Tom.

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The Road Back

The road back--and forward. It's all over now for these dejected heinie PWs, but for the Yanks on the right there's a long way ahead just around that turn.

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Deadstock

"Lying all over the orchards and the roads between them were dead cows and horses--so many that you no longer paid much attention to them."

An account from the upcoming article "Taking off with the Tanks."

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Fight's finish...for two groups of men. Casualties are brought aboard an LST on the French coast while in the background, a file of Nazi prisoners plods further from the Fatherland.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cartoon

"What's so funny about this Sad Sack cartoon?"

Cartoon by Sgt. Syd Landi

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Yaks

Russian GIS pose with Yak 9s, Red Army fighter planes. These Yaks, manned by Russian pilots, protect U. S. shuttle-bombers as they near Soviet bases.

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Security Mission

Read the exciting story submitted by Pvt. Justin Gray about a harrowing day in the Italian War.

Read the full article HERE

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Sieg Heil!!

A wounded German officer, his game leg in the air, his other on a pillow, is hauled through the streets of Cherbourg in a cart by two captured German enlisted men.

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Prostitutes Charged

Two French prostitutes climb into a jeep after having been nabbed by U. S. MPs. They were charged with signaling to Germans with a flashlight from their hotel window.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

News From Home

Read all the news from home wild, wacky, crazy and sometimes dull but always interesting.

Read Maryland to North Dakota HERE

Read Ohio to Wyoming HERE

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Winged Wedding

Miami, Fla.

S/Sgt. Walt R Johnson of Chicago, Ill., was at the alter getting married here after a long hitch at a bomber base in Greenland where GIs use interphone language all day long.

The chaplain asked him the fateful question: "Do you, Walter take the woman, Helen, to be your lawful wedded Wife?"

Walt nodded nervously.

"Roger," he said.

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Hoist

A U. S. MP applies a dorsal hoist to a lagging German prisoner.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

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Grateful Civilians

Grateful civilians dishing out a potful of food to a GI as the U. S. Army returned Cherbourg to it's French Mayor following withdrawal of Nazi troops.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

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Dog Robber and his Officer

The arrogant and well-dressed Joe in front is a captured Nazi officer. The gloom-faced character beside him is his dog robber.

A "dog robber" is a term for a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. It is also sometimes refered to as a "batman or batwoman."

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

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Boys Meet Girls

Boys meet girls. Shapely Carole Landis and laughing Martha Tilton (who warbled with Benny Goodman's band) pose with Gis in New Guinea.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

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.45 at the ready

A GI holds his .45 at the ready while German prisoners, their arms above their heads, file by to an American command post.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

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Sniper Killer

Read the interesting article by Sgt. Walter Peters about T/Sgt. Frank Kwiatek and his talent for taking out Nazi snipers.

Read the article HERE

Art work by Sgt. Brodie

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German Pointers

An American soldier stands guard at a Cherbourg crossroads still lousy with lettered pointers left by the retreating Germans.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

YANK 18 Aug 1944

VERY VERY

CHINA

Back in Oklahoma I knew a boy who used to say everything twice. Ask Hazlitt how he was feeling, and he'd say; "I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling line."

Ask him whether it would rain, and he'd say: "If it don't rain, it'll be a long dry spell. Yes sir, if it don't rain, it'll be a long dry spell.”

"Everything Hazlitt says," Eller Ardrey used to remark, "he makes a carbon copy of it." And Ben Holland thought Hazlitt would be a successful advertising man, "because he believes in repetition.”

The other day I ran across Hazlitt out here (in China). "Hazlitt," I asked, "how are you doing?" And he said: "I am doing all right. I am doing all right.”

"Are you getting plenty to eat?" "Plenty to eat. Plenty to eat."

"How do you feel about water-buffalo meat?"

"I like it." His face blanched. His cheeks expanded. He almost exploded. But even Hazlitt couldn't say that twice.

--Pvt. Cal Tinney

YANK Field Correspondent

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New From Home Maryland-North Dakota

Read clips from "News from Home" Maryland to North Dakota 11 Aug 1944

Read all the news HERE

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Motorcycle Half-track?

Moving up the lead (in the war in France) a trio is on a captured German NSU half-track motorcycle.

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Camping in Russia

Men of the Eastern Command, U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, bunk in a tent in Russia.

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny makes music for a New Guinea native while fellow members of a USO troupe look and listen.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

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At one of our new shuttle-bombing airbases in Russia, S/Sgt. R. E. Robinson of Huntington, W. Va., examines the starred rank insignia of a Red Army woman lieutenant.

Thanks to Pvt. Richard B. Bishop for purchasing this YANK

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FBI Stats Aug 1944

Read the FBI stats for Aug 1944 HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

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.

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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.

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News From Home

Veiw our new blog about "News From Home"

This is facinating stuff. This segment is the shorts from the "States" Alabama to Maine.

Read all the News From Home - HERE

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Rockets Aweigh

Beaufighters of RAF Coastal Command now carry rocket projectiles. Here two streak out, while their gas starts toblanket the plane's tail.

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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.

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Pvt. Arthur Landbish

Pvt. Arthur Landbish, of New York, member of an MP unit about to enter St. Lo.

(probably to have a discussion with those GIs with all those wine bottles)

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Squashed six-by-six

This was a six-by-six, one of our biggest trucks, before it fell into a shellhole on the beach and was ground to wreckage by an LCT. It's crew, left to right: Sgt. Joseph Jojczyk, of Cleveland, o.; S/Sgt. Michael Struyznsk, of Pittsburgh; Sgt. Mike Wonner, of Alliance, o.; Sgt. Chester Kobylinski, of Erie, Pa.; and Lt. John M. Reid, of Worchester, Mass.

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Retreating Germans left behind large stores of fine wines, which doesn't annoy Yanks one bit. Connoisseurs can pick out several bottles of Martell's fine old brandy.

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Don't rest in this grass

Cpl. Leland Larmon examining a German anti-personnell mine which he has just removed with his bayonet from the tall grass adjoining a road on the outskirts of St. Lo.

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Cpl. David Green

Here Cpl. David Green, of Westminster, Md., has dug himself in at a St. Lo cemetery, which came in for a good share of the shelling.

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Tanks storming St. Lo.

Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham

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Windy City Kitty

"Ever since his return from Guinea he thinks of nothing but new tactics for advances!"

Cartoon by Sgt. Jack Crowe

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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.

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Ocean survival with a twist

I was a Jap aviator swimming frantically toward them. "We didn't know what to do," Platz says. "We could see his slanted eyes. He was waving a pistol in one hand."

Read "Arm's Length From A Jap

Battleship" HERE

Artwork by Sgt. Ruge

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Arm's Length From A Jap Battleship

Read this amazing story about George H. (Pluto) Platz AMM1c. He bailed out of his aircraft right into the Japanese fleet and lived to tell about it.

"I was close enough to touch a large cable trailing from the battleship."

Photo by Pfc. George Burns

Artwork by Sgt. Ruge

Read the full story HERE

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VJ Day 14 Aug 1945

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Call Ripley

Call Ripley--Believe it or not, Earl N. Phillips, seaman from Radford, Va., fell off a ship in mid-Atlantic. About half an hour later a Coast Guard DE happened along. Result: an invigorating dip for Earl.

YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition

Burma Girls

First Red Cross girls in Burma: Maxine Robertson, Portland, Oreg.; Mary Rogan, Glendale, Ohio; Judy Fitch, Hudson, Ohio; Star Giddy, New Your City.

Photo by Ted Frutkoff

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Cartoon

"I suppose youv'e got me on detail again today."

Cartoon by Pvt. Frederick Wildfoerster

YANK exclaimes on this issue that they "are sick of desert island cartoons, too. These are the last ones we'll ever publish."

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Service with a smile, says Cpl. Louis (Gunga Din) Cziperle, as he totes a bunch of water-filled canteens to his thirsty comrades on Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea. Louis would perfer the kind of water they have to drink back in his home town, East Chicago, Ind.--but there's a war in the way.

Photo by Sgt. Dick Hanley

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Janet Blair

Janet Blair YANK Pin-up Girl for 11 Aug 1944. Janet was a Hollywood actress who was born as Martha Jane Lafferty. Her stage name was taken from the Pennsylvania county (Blair) where she grew up. Janet appeared in about 54 films and televisions shows from 1941 to 1991. She also was the lead in "South Pacific" for about 1200 performances.

She died in 2007 at age of 85. She was about 23 when this picture was taken.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

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.

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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.

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During the campaign on Wakde, Netherlands New Guinea, YANK's Sgt. Dick Hanley made this unusual close-up. One look at the soldier's face, the way he hugs his hole and grips his tommy gun, tells you the picture was made up front. To make things tougher, he carries heavy radio equipment.

YANK 11 Aug 1944

The Battle for St. Lo - Part 3

Read the battle for St. Lo by YANK's third correspondent on the scene.

...and then St. Lo was freed

By Sgt. Walter Peters

Read the full story HERE

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The 29th's Flag over St. Lo

"Brother, isn't that a pretty sight!" The 29th's flag (above the tank) flies over the fiercely contested town of St. Lo, meaning that the Yanks have arrived.

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