YANK Magazine-The Army Weekly

M/Sgt. Clifford Stoner and his lucky .50-cal.  A ground man in New Guinea, he brought down a Zero first time he ever fired a machine gun....

His carbine resting within easy grabbing distance, Pfc. Russell Smith of my Monona, Iowa, toys with a light lunch of K rations in his fox...

These are Germans evacuating Rome. Before any Allied troops entered the capital city, and Italian took these pictures of the withdrawing...

These German paratroopers are young and have not fought long. Now they are prisoners, captured after fierce action outside Velletri, bel...

German sniper has grandstand seat in a jeep procession in France. Vehicle mounts two machine guns, one .50 caliber and one. 30 light.

Rangers climbed up this rope ladder to surprise and silence a Jerry gun crew at the cliff's top.  Part of D-Day operations. YANK 7 ...

When in Rome, hold a Roman baby and be popular with the populace, says Pvt. Ben Pollack who was among the first American soldiers to ente...

Pvt. James O'Banner of Memphis Tennessee, first Negro infantryman to kill a Jap, notches his carbine. He scored the kill on a patrol at...

It wasn't all war and destruction. Sometimes it was just a picnic. The GIs were ready to fight but no one came out to fight. Read ...

Tadji, New Guinea Three Nips killed and one GI shirt lost was S/Sgt. Gordon Clapshaw's battle score. YANK 25 Aug 1944 Down Under Ed...

Tadji, New Guinea The morning after they had mowed down a whole column of Japs, S/Sgt. John B. Dicken , Pvt. Paul E. Troutman and Pfc. Joe ...

Read Sgt. Burtt Evans amusing tale of putting up with the heat for our GIs serving in Iran. Yes I said Iran. Read the full Article HERE ...

Australia 2nd Lt. Ernest Moser of Sagiknaw, Mich., is a persistent guy, which is an understatement if you ever saw one. Moser joined the A...

Marie McDonald was the Pin-up Girl for YANK for 25 Aug 1944. Marie appeared in about 24 Hollywood productions. Her nickname for a while w...

Sgt. Pete Paris the first enlisted man to report for duty on the editorial staff of YANK when it was activated in 1942, was killed in acti...

Read the action packed story by Sgt. James P. O'Neill about the 100th and 442nd fight one day in Italy. These are our proud "most...

"KAMERAD!" The jig is up for this Nazi officer, and a couple of MPs intend to see it stays that way. YANK 27 Aug 1944 British E...

YANK 25 Aug 1944

Lois Konantz of St. Paul, Minn., joins the WAC in London as a Pfc. Reason: she transferred from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force of the...

Pfc. Nakana cleaning his favorite weapon, a BAR. YANK 25 Aug 1944

A buffalo goes into action on the beach at Numfor. The crew directs fire on Jap defenders who have dug themselves into the blasted rubble b...

Pvt. Henry (Slim) Nakamora smiles happily as he rests his hands on his hard-working bazooka. With this bazooka, operating the two-man weap...

Listen to Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters sing "Hot Time" when those YANKs go marching in

Read this great eye witness report from Sgt. Walter Peters when he went out with the tanks, on road against the Germans in France. Read th...

The man at rest is Cpl. Thomas O'Neal , 2 nd Marine Division. He is sitting in front of his M4 tank in the town of Garapan on the isl...

The well worn, expressive GI shoes were painted by Sgt. George E. Porter Jr. , who is with the 5th Photographic Technical Squadron in New G...

The following was a comment left by a relative : David had 12 children, now there are 88 offspring! All in Westminster, Maryland. My grandmo...

Flyers working out of African desert airfields improvise a wash tub by lighting a fire under a British petrol tin so they can do their laund...

Radio City Music Hall Rockettes with plaque made for them from bits of a South Pacific flyers who've picked theses gals as "ideal....

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 tha...

Read Sgt. Samuel W. Taylor's amusing little article about Mud, Booze. and Babes. Read the full article HERE YANK 20 Aug 1944 Britis...

"Anything new on my transfer, sir?" Cartoon by Pvt. Tom Flannery After the war, Thomas Flannery worked as a free-lance cartoonist ...

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 ahea...

"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 th...

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 Na...

Second Air Force, Colorado Springs, Colo. Leota Lane Pitts , of the famed Lane Sisters , has joined the WACs. The tinsel life of Hollywood ...

M/Sgt. John (Jazz) Magoni of Fort Benning, Ga., recently coped the Legion of Merit for 24 years as weapons instructor in the Infantry Schoo...

Frances Doyle SK2c has been elected "Miss Air Wave" by her admiring shipmates in a contest held at Floyd Bennett Field, New York....

"What's so funny about this Sad Sack cartoon?" Cartoon by Sgt. Syd Landi Yank 18 Aug 1944

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

Read the exciting story submitted by Pvt. Justin Gray about a harrowing day in the Italian War. Read the full article HERE YANK 18 Aug 19...

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 captur...

Two French prostitutes climb into a jeep after having been nabbed by U. S. MPs. They were charged with signaling to Germans with a flashlig...

Read all the news from home wild, wacky, crazy and sometimes dull but always interesting. Read Maryland to North Dakota HERE Read Ohio to W...

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 ...

A U. S. MP applies a dorsal hoist to a lagging German prisoner. Photo by Cpl. Joe Cunningham YANK 18 Aug 1944

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 o...

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...

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

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...

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

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