YANK Magazine-The Army Weekly

In Italy, the gallant T-5 Sal Cannizzo helps French ambulance driver Nanou Calas with her knitting. When the going is tough, French Ambul...

This is the cover shot of the YANK 31 March 1944. The story is "Surprise Party at Eniwetok" by Sgt. Merle Miller. The eight phot...

"TIMBER-R-R-R!" By M/Sgt. Ted Miller YANK 31 March 1944

Oh, the days are gone when the sailors went Down to the sea in ships. For now our gobs are heaven-sent And go down to the sea in slips! By A...

Gimme candy, Sad Sack! By Cpl. Ernest Maxwell , Santa Ana AAB, Calif. YANK 31 March 1944

From London to Tahiti, From Attu to Port of Spain, From Bouganinville to Martinique, You'll hear a new refrain: From Frisco to Pearl Har...

Gloria Anderson was the YANK Pin-up Girl for 31 March 1944 (American Edition). Gloria spent some time as a Hollywood actress making about ...

Camp Claiborne, La. - T-5 Sam Kellman , a member of the 780th Engineer Petroleum Distribution Co., EUTC, was a lance corporal in the Royal ...

Pvt. Donald R. Hargrove trained at Camp Callan, Calif., for 12 weeks before confessing he was 13 years old. He will be discharged. The o...

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 ch...

Less glamorous perhaps, but she likes it. WAC Pvt. Dorothy Hamilton was a night-club dancer, now she drives and repair4s tanks at Newport...

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 tha...

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 Sq...

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, w...

Learn all about the China-India-Burma theater of World War II. This amazing web site has a tremendous amount of work and effort by many peo...

Do what you like, I'm staying! Caliche, a baby wildcat adopted by the 61st Aviation Squadron at Moore Field, Tex., is disputing Willia...

Wendover Field, Utah - While the finishing touches were being put on Theater No. 1, the officer in charge suggested that the seats be cover...

Priscilla Cranstoun of New York recieves congratulations from Lt. Comdr. Howard Prentice in Boston, Mass., as the first SPAR chief petty ...

Second Army Maneuvers, Tenn. - Sgt. Charles Arnold , platoon leader in an Infantry outfit, sweated out a long chow line and, after his mess...

These holes which T-5 Vaugh Chadbourne of Camp Adair, Oreg., is fingering were made by a .30-caliber bullet from a captured U. S. rifle fi...

Tonopah Army Air Field, Nev. - Last Christmas Pfc. W. F. Wigner sent his Seattle, Wash. draft board a card inscribed: "I think of yo...

Yes you. It's a terrible thing to face eight first sergeants. They are all in the 260th QM Railhead Co., Camp Beale, Calif. Pointing...

Sad Sack "Souvenir Hunter" By Sgt. George Baker YANK 31 March 1944

Saturday Evening Post Cover for 20 March 1943 It shows a woman using ration stamps as part of her Saint Paddy's green ensemble . "S...

Happy Birthday Bill Walker 82 Years Young on 22 March!!! Cover photo of YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Follow this link to view "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" by the Andrews Sisters. Be sure to pause the music in the 40's J...

Don't cry, little kraut! These three plump Germans were careless; they got captured (near Anzio). Does the guy in the middle look a lit...

Somewhere in the middle east —"Hi, Budd. how's everything?" said Fredric March to Cpl. Ralph C. Budd of Hollywood, Calif., a...

Little Joe with his "Guardian," T-5 Joe Fillippo . After his father and mother were killed by bombs near Anzio, he was adopted by...

SAIDOR, NEW GUINEA—An Ordnance mechanic's life is supposed to be pretty dull, and generally it is. But three ordnancemen in the American...

Nurses Victoria Hansen (left) and Carrie Sheetz inspect a German pillbox in the Anzio-Nettuno area of combat. It never fired. Photo by Sg...

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY—On a tree in Naples, Cpl. Clyde L. Hardin of a Field Artillery outfit found the name and address of Pvt. Judy ...

This is a picture labled "Air Drop in the Solomon Islands"

SOLOMON ISLANDS—Coconut plantations are often used for military encampment in these islands because there is no jungle undergrowth, there is...

A tank destroyer on the alert, camouflaged with hay. These soldiers near the front in Italy have burrowed caves into a haystack. Photo by ...

After 23 days and nights of fighting in the dark jungles of New Britain, these marines are going to get a rest. Waiting at Cape Gloucester...

The landing craft coxswain was the symbol and fiber of the amphibious force. Exposed to enemy fire as he steered his craft to shore, the li...

Recruitment poster for the Navy Waves in 1944 by John Falter . Read more about John Falter HERE

Navy Recruitment Poster by McClelland Barclay . Read more about McClelland Barclay HERE

Read this entire issue of YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition HERE Remember to zoom the PDF pages to 25% or better for easy viewing.

Read about The Army's Gypsy-Builders in this article by Sgt. Saul Levitt . Armies can not move without the "Engineers." Artw...

Discover the art work of Jack Coggins, YANK artist working from the British Edition field office at this web site

Three raids in 24 hours kept everybody at this Marauder base busy. Read about the crew of the "Sad Sack, Jr." Pictured are Lt. Ph...

YANK Pin Up Girl for 17 March 1944 British Edition - Ann Savage Ann Savage was a Hollywood actress who made about 37 films from 1943 to ...

After taking his Army physical, Mayor William P. Hood , of Wichita Falls, Texas, wired his wife: "Inspected, dissected, infected, rejec...

Sad Sack - First Come-First Served By Sgt. George Baker Click on image to enlarge. Read More about George Baker: HERE YANK 19 March 194...

At Camp White, Ore., Sgt. Fred Barnett , of Hammond, Ind., received the Distinguished Service Cross from Major General James M. Bradley , wh...

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 st...

During the month of February, 1944, the United States shipyards turned out 134 merchant ships. YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

He knows his babes like you know your rifle. Alberto Varga , the "Esquire" artist, scktches some lovelies for a mural to adorn t...

Senator Harry Truman , Democrat of Missouri, got browned off about the nation's press. "Ever since I've been in the Senate...

"At first I had a devil of a time getting used to driving on the left side." By Pvt. Tom Flannery , ETO YANK 19 March 1944 Britis...

Mickey Rooney , the movie Peter Pan who was turned down by the Army a year ago, was back on 1-A status according to the Draft Board. YANK 1...

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...

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Missouri: Water was released at Montana's Fort Peck Dam to raise the Missouri River two feet so that eight LST's built at Kansas Cit...

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

Read about one of the first raids on the Marshall Islands. Cpl. Larry McManus was one of first correspondents to fly in an attack on the ...

During the long days of searching Jap sea lanes, submariners off duty kill time, reading, writing, and listening to the radio. Read about t...

Fleetfoot messenger at Arawe. War cancelled the 1940 Olympic track hopes of Pfc. Wallace Grant , Pima Indian of Laveen, Ariz. YANK 17 Marc...

New York: New York University announced the establishment of Gold Star scholarships to provide four years tuition to the children of the uni...

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....

Oklahoma: Marriages by proxy or radio telephone is illegal in Oklahoma, Atty. Gen . Cobb advised the American Red Cross. YANK 17 March 194...

I wish the CO wasn't such a bug on tight formation. By Sgt. Allan Ferguson YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Sgt. Joe Louis , on Jan. 13, the first day of his third year in the Army. Louis told GIs at Camp Wheeler, Ga., where he's stationed, t...

Delaware: Thousands of residents between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach watched a blazing sea of oil five miles off the Delaware Capes caused by t...

The Poets Cornered I know a little native gal From down Moresby way She coudln't hold a candle To the babes way up by Lae She's hom...

Connecticut. Gov. Baldwin called a special session of the Legislature to amend the election law to enable servicemen to vote. For the rest o...

Chili Williams, YANK Pin Up Girl for 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition. Chili was a Hollywood actress and model. She made about 20 movies ...

California. Two men in Army uniforms stole a Greyhound bus from a parking lot in Fresno, headed for San Francisco and picked up a number of...

FireWomen. They've got to revise the one about "Fireman, Save My Child!" in Laurel, Md. Mrs. G Beall (left) and Mrs. G. Ho...

Tall, brunette Dorothy Williams takes over the controls of a subway-elevated train in Philadelphia and becomes the city's first El mot...