YANK Magazine-The Army Weekly

Gun by Sgt. Walter Bernstein The story of a 105-mm howitzer, serial number 1008, and the men who fired it in Texas and Pine Camp and then fo...

Cartoon by Sgt. Dyer. It appeared in YANK in 5 Sept 1943.

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Cover for the 1 Sept 1944 issue of YANK Down Under edition

Cartoon by MSgt. Ted Miller Appeared in 1 Sept 1944 issue of YANK

On Leave by Norman Rockwell This was a cover of The Saturday Evening Post of 15 Sept 1945. The very day this magazine hit the stands the Jap...

Signal Corpsmen During Battle by Mead Schaeffer This was a cover from Saturday Evening Post of 9 Sept 1944. Like so many contributions to t...

Rosie to the Rescue by Norman Rockwell This Saturday Evening Post cover of 4 Sept 1943, shows what we might call today as recycling. However...

Paratrooper by Mead Schaeffer This cover for Saturday Evening Post of 12 Sept 1942, shows one of the many moments of truth that brave men f...

Dutch Treat by John Hyde This Saturday Evening Post Cover for 6 Sept 1941 shows America slowly gearing up for war. The poor kid on Army wage...

This ad appeared in The Saturday Evening Post 21 April 1945. Deep in German mud, this M-24 has left its imprint of Cadillac power. For, like...

This ad appeared in The Saturday Evening Post 21 April 1945. HOME ON LEAVE ... but they haven't forgotten her... the first lady of our f...

This ad appeared in The Saturday Evening Post 21 April 1945. A sailor wrote this in a letter to us after coming off a night watch at sea in ...

This ad appeared in The Saturday Evening Post 21 April 1945. RIGHT NOW the world's best gasoline —millions of gallons of it—is being shi...

This Saturday Evening Post cover from 19 Feb 1944 looks cute enough. If you didn't know any better you would think this puppy just made ...

Combat Artists of World War II Back in 1999 PBS aired a documentary about the unsung "combat artists" of WWII. This is an amazing ...

Saved from the sea after their planes crashed during the attack on Truk. These 11 crewmen stroll on the grounds of Honolulu's Royal Haw...

Rescue At Truk By Sgt. Larry McManus IN the meantime Lt. Burns, worried by the delay in the Tang's arrival, had landed his Kingfisher ag...

Rescue At Truk By Sgt. Larry McManus MEANWHILE the Tang's crew had seen a TBF crash near Ollan and throw up a column of thick smoke. Fol...

Rescue At Truk By Sgt. Larry McManus EARLY the next morning the Tang spotted a Jap sub escaping from Truk through the South Pass. The Tang d...

Rescue At Truk By Sgt. Larry McManus PEARL HARBOR—A submarine, many people believe, is a sleek, stealthy craft devoted to the science of de...

Cartoon by Pvt. Thomas Flannery. If you have knowledge of Pvt. Thomas Flannery please leave a comment in this post.

Cover for the 1 Sept 1944 issue of Yank. His carbine resting within easy grabbing distance, Pfc. Russell Smith of Monona, Iowa, toys with a...

The following was published in the 1 Sept 1944 issue of Yank under the section "The Poets Cornered." ...

Jeanne Crain . YANK Pin Up Girl for 16 July 1944.

Cherbourg.. Our engineers clearing away the wreckage of a bridge on one of the main streets of the city which had been blown up by the Ger...

This was Valognes. It's all like this. At the right is the Cathedral of St. Malo. The houses at the left were almost medieval with a str...

Here the engineers are well on the way to clearing up the mess of the railroad station at Carentan. Two days earlier this was a shambles, a...

This is a fire control post for a battery of 75-mm. howitzers, part of our airborne • artillery. I ran into them on June 20 outside of Caren...

The hedgerow where we bivouacked just outside of Isigny the first night we were ashore. This is a typical scene beside a typical French hed...

One of the GIs of the airborne artillery near their shelter in a ditch just behind a hedgerow that helped shield their gun emplacement. Pvt...

ENGINEERS removing an 88-mm. gun and cleaning out ammunition from an enemy flak ship which was sunk in the harbor of Isigny. It was heavily...

This is a typical field hospital operating room, just off the beach, set up by an amphibious section surgical team. These medics told me th...

The beachhead on June 16. In the foreground is a burned-out LCI beached by the tide. It was hit by 88-mm. shellfire. Crushed against it is ...

SGT. JOHN SCOTT was in the backwash of battle from the beachhead to Cherbourg. He went over with a regiment of engineers, arriving at the be...

Yank Magazine was the common soldiers publication. It was published by the "men," for the "men." Men, refers to enlisted...