YANK Magazine-The Army Weekly

During the operation against Buka the only casualty for the entire Task Force was this sailor's burned finger. He points to the ship...

During the bombardment of Buka in the northern Solomons, this cruiser's portside guns light up the night. Photo by Sgt. Dillon Ferris ...

The feet are the most depended on for transportation in Italy. This group of Yanks are packing a lot of bozookas. YANK 17 March 1944 Dow...

The Fifth Army keeps advancing through Italy. In the picture, Yanks using a pontoon as a raft to pull themselves across the Volturno River....

Sad Sack - Hungry YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition By Sgt. George Baker Read more about George Baker : HERE

Read an article in TIME about Chester Nimitz from 26 Feb 45. Read it: HERE

These amazing envelopes were created by William Schmitt to mail home letters in during WWII. See more: HERE

The exploits of the courageous officers and men of the Navy's PT Boat Squadrons will endure as one of the most inspiring chapters in al...

March 1945. Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the afte...

Betty Sullivan , a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just...

March 1945, Iwo Jima. At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 a flight nurse talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Su...

Read about this 17 year old kid, Constantin Kostantinov, who mowed down 74 Germans and thwarted an attack in Russia on the same day Pearl H...

Saturday Evening Post cover for 2 March 1942. "Anti Aircraft" by Stevan Dohanos Read more about Stevan Dohanos: Here

General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong , World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin after awarding him the Congressio...

This very sad poster depicts the gold star flag which families hung in their windows signifying a loss of a loved one to the war. The i...

Maria Montez was the YANK Pin Up Girl for 29 Nov 1942. She was a popular actress in Hollywood during WWII. She was of Spanish decent born ...

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Desk men in MacArthur's GHQ won stripes the hard way-under fire. Read about the early days of action General MacArthur's own staff...

This rough, tough and heavily burdeded soldier is Pvt. Richard M. Moore of Baltimore, Md. attached to a Parachute Infantry regiment in New...

Some wounded are evacuated. Sgt D.S. Jackson (left) killed five Japs before he was hit. Sgt. E.B. Lovett's helmet was creased by a ...

A light machine gunner peers through the sun-flecked jungle, trying to locate a target, but the Japs, only some 50 yards away, are quiet. Y...

Two infantrymen, Cpl. Lewis Niovich of Seanor, Pa., and S/Sgt. Anthony Cavallero of Woodbridge, N.J., lie behind a log awaiting developme...

Two gunners get their light machine gun into place behind a fallen tree and wait to open up at the first sign of Japs in front of them. YAN...

Men who call themselves "seagoing engineers" pilot small flat-bottomed boats through the island channels, carrying men and suppli...

Pfc. Oscar Spielberg, who used to pedal "Duh Joinal" in the Bronx, not peddles "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank...

The "Sukiyaki Maru" meets a bomb socially in Wewak harbor. Another tem minutes and she will meet the bottom, making that tender ...

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 th...

The drawing is by Sgt. John Scott for an article in YANK titled The Marauders. YANK 28 Nov 1943

Round One. Original sketch by Cpl Fred Ray AAF. This image depicts the early victories in Africa in 1942 with a very long way to go. YANK ...

Shots The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker YANK 29 Nov 1942

Troops of a U. S. Army task force check their equipment en route from New Caledonia to the Solomans. YANK 29 Nov 1942

Art. This gallery of shapely gams is being played over with a paint-spray gun to create the illusion of stockings. No more runs for the d...

U.S. soldiers in the Caribbean area peg down their shelter halves. Wet heat and armies of bugs make sleeping tough, but they go through it,...

A Marine eats a speedy meal on Guadalcanal. Sitting on top of a trench, he can't afford to linger over lunch. YANK 29 Nov 1942

With one hand ready to grab his pistol belt and holster, Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce takes a short rest on an operational flight somewhere over ...

In a six-week maintenance course at the Ordance Automotive School, Camp Holabird, Md., WAACs are taught, among other things, to drive vehic...

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

In Australia, two master sergeants, Charles Reeves , Bakersfield, Calif., and Roland Boone , Hemet, Calif., man the machine guns of a Flyin...

By nature friendly guys, the Americans lose no time making friends. Here they chat, in who knows what language, to a trio of Arabs. YANK ...

Yanks en route to Africa, an Army band plays to the troops as they stand on the decks of a British transport. YANK 29 Nov 1942

Inside the Siegfried Line by Sgt. Mack Morriss --Page 3 Home Towns in Wartime-San Francisco by Cpl. Angus Corley --Page 6 Raid on Yochow by ...

Jane Nigh was a Hollywood actress who was discovered in a defense plant during WWII. She played roles for Fox Studios as a redheaded swee...

Cartoon by Pvt. Johnny Bryson YANK 3 Nov 1944