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Saturday Evening Post Cover 31 Oct 1942
Artist Charles Kaiser

October 1944 Covers

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YANK for your walls

This is a photographic presentation we created for a relative of a GI's story in YANK magazine. This image mounts into a 16x20 frame. The cover shot is to the exact size of the original YANK cover.

Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin
YANK Pin Up Girl 21 Jan 1945 Continental Edition

Deanna was once one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood. By age 14 she was the most highly paid female star in the world. She had a wonderful singing voice. When she was at the top of her career as Hollywood's leading actress and singer, she turned her back on that world for a life of seclusion. At this writing she is still alive and living in France. She has not been interviewed since 1949. She was about 23 or 24 in the above picture.

21 Jan 1945 Continental Edition

After the Fourth Armored Division broke through to the Bastogne pocket, many German prosoners were taken. Here Pvt. Frank Kelly an MP of the Fourth, leads a group of PWs to the rear as U.S. halftracks move forward.

YANK 21 Jan 1945 Continental Edition

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Bastogne

Sights like these were common during the now historic siege of Bastogne. Here three men of the 101st Airborne Division guard an outpost.

YANK 21 Jan 1945

1942 Poster

"Charm" The Sad Sack

Alma

The bridge above Salerno was still under fire ten days after the Allied landings. It was only harassing fire, which one dodged as one dodges traffic, yet it threatened to sever communications between the north and south forces. For days strong British patrols probed the hills behind Salerno, searching for the one 88-mm. gun which spasmodically threw its shells at the vital span linking the coastal highway. Back at headquarters a little Italian girl came in, escorted by an AMG official. " Her name's Alma," the official said. " She can tell you where that battery's located."
Alma began to speak excitedly in Italian, with gestures. A staff officer laid a large-scale map in front of her and asked her to point out the position. But Alma didn't understand the map. The staff officer explained to the AMG official that the girl's information was of no value as far as counter-firing went. Alma, when informed, offered to lead them to a hill overlooking the position. The staff officer protested that it would mean danger for her, but Alma wasn't afraid.
Not long afterward the staff officer, an artillery observer and a patrol led by a little Italian girl were climbing into the hills. A field telephone was passed to the artillery officer, who gave the command to fire. The first round was short and almost blew the men and Alma off the hill. The next two were almost on the target. They watched intently as the German crew struggled to get their 88 out of the cavern at whose mouth it had been concealed. The fourth round was a direct hit.

Soft Pinch

If only all MPs were like Republic's movie starlet Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were line Helen Talbot. If only all MPs were like Helen Talbot.

Helen was a Hollywood actress from Kansas who was credited with making at least 18 movies from 1943 to 1946. She left Hollywood behind when she married an ex navy pilot in 1946. She was about 20 when this picture was taken.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Mess Trench

To protect themselves from strafing by the Luftwaffe, Ninth Air Force GIs in France get their chow served from a tent-covered underground kitchen and form their chow line in a trench.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Persian Posters

Railroading GIs bunking at Camp Atterbury, Iran, have this homey baseball scoreboard. PX gripes get taken for a ride in the cigarette and razor-blade ads.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Irish

Three times 1st Sgt. Thomas E. Valentine refused to go to OCS. He feared he'd be shifted from the 27th Division, New York's Fighting Irish. His obstinacy paid off and, in the hospital with wounds received fighting at Saipan, he got a direct commission as a second lieutenant with his beloved 27th.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Fisherman in France

Sgt. "Hooks" Hill, a Fort Worth (Tex.) boy came to France on a tour conducted by the 3d infantry Division, pauses to drop a line in the Doube River near Avanne for old times' sake.

YANK 27 Oct 1944

Gail Manners

Gail Manners YANK pin up girl for 24 Oct 1943

Love, Sex and World War II

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, young Americans knew instinctively that their lives would never be the same. The "normal" sequence of events – education or work, marriage, children – had been blown to bits and, as they would soon discover, so had long-held attitudes toward love and sex.

In her new book, Thanks For The Memories: Love, Sex and World War II, award-winning author Jane Mersky Leder destroys the historical myth that young men and women went about the business of war and stayed on the straight and narrow path. World War II provided new opportunities for sexual experimentation, hasty marriages, flourishing prostitution, and for love connections that have stood the test of time."

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24 October 1943 British Edition

Chow Time In Italy. A couple of kids in Musso's former domain find a friend in Cpl. John Chiola, of Johnstown, Pa.

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Yank Covers 1942

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17 June 1942 The First Issue

It is appropriate that we start our fledgling web site with the very first issue of YANK which is dated 17 June 1942.

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If you would like to run the music you hear here in the background you can go to the start page at:

http://yankmagazine.info/

and follow the links to 17 June 1942.

New Web Site Coming

Wow!!!

We just purchased a large web site from GoDaddy.com. We are going to turn it into a full blown PDF site for YANK Magazine. Instead of getting bits and pieces here at this blog, you will be able go to the new PDF site and view the actual pages of YANK. You can sit there and read to your hearts content. It will take a couple of weeks to just get it started. We will continue to add to it on a regular basis and also post snippits here to highlight pages as we load them to the site.

The new site will be at YankMagazine.info when we get it up and running.

Stay tuned for more.

After The Battle At Kwajalein

The walls of this power plant on Ennubirr Island were two feet thick byt that wasn't thick enough to take the Navy's shelling.

Read the full story by Sgt. Merle Miller: HERE

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

While supplies are unloaded at Ennubirr Island, result of Navy bombardment can be seen in the sky.

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

En route to the Marshalls, Sgt. Charles Blair of Vero Beach, Fla., sharpens edge of his combat knife.

YANK 10 March 1944

Fighting on Kwajalein

Blasted pillbox is inspected by a Leatherneck whose fifle is ready should a "dead" Jap prove to be alive.

YANK 10 Mar 1944

Berchtesgaden

GIs who captured Hitler's mountain hideaway found rubble and magnificence. Amid the ruins there was still plenty of evidence of the high style in which the Nazi Fuehrer used to live.

YANK 22 June 1945

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Vicious Cycle

The Sad Sack - Vicious Cycle - by George Baker

YANK 22 June 1945

Yank Cover 22 June 1945

Where Adolf Hitler and his gang once sat at Berchtesgaden, these soldiers of the 3d Infantry Division take a deserved break with a little wine for company.

YANK 22 June 1945

Yank Cover 4 Feb 1945

YANK Cover for 4 Feb 1945 Continental Edition. When this picture was taken by YANK's Sgt. Kenny, S/Sgt. Joseph Arnaldo of New Bedford, Mass., had just come off the line after 10 successive days of fighting. His hood and face covered with snow, Arnaldo had recovered from a temporary blindness when an 88 mounted on a jerry tank was fired a few yards from him.

Second Battle of Bougainville

Isolated and facing starvation, the Jap forces launched a desperate assault against two seasoned U. S. divisions. When the battle was over, 7,000 of the Japs were dead.

by Sgt. Garrett McGurn

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YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Mail call

Sgt. Alva Shipman of Robinson, Ill., keeps watch while Pfc. Herman Tarlton of Herod, Ill. reads mail.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Samurai prize

Samurai sword is the prize that Sgt. Warren Schultz of Madison, Wis., has taken from a slain Jap officer.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Sweet Memories

At Harlingen Army Air Field, Tex., Pfc. Charles R. Saggau, aerial gunnery student, shows more than ordinary interest in YANK pin-up Jeanne Crain. Pfc. Saggau acted in several movies with Jeanne in civilian life.

YANK 18 Aug 1944

The Reising gun

A Reising gun comes in handy if you're 150 yards from your lines, like Sgt. Oron Banks of Shaw, Ill.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

BAR to the rescue

With a BAR, Pvt. Raymond Vozelli of Philadelphia, Pa., disposed of 30 Japs found near his pillbox.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Chow on their tank

Using their tank as a table, Sgts. Elmore Sackett and Arnold Parillo sampler chow brought up from the rear.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

OP on Bougainville

Less than 100 yards from the enemy's position, Pfc. Leonard Cooper of Altoona, Pa., and S/Sgt. Michael Pistner of Du Bois, Pa., nonchalantly sit in a Boougainville OP and radio back directioons to our artillery.

YANK 19 May 1944 Alaska Edition

Hawaiian Honey

Usually people in far-away lands don’t check with the ideas you get in the movies. Hawaii’s May Moniz is a lovely exception.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Veteran Chef

Paul Vallee, 70, working in the Metz mess of S/Sgt. Louis Bruno, cooked for Gen. Pershing in the last war.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Would-Be WACS

In Puerto Rico, smiling Wac Sgt. Mary Lou Hayes passes out test papers to these four attractive young senoritas who have just volunteered to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Tokyo Milestone

This is the volcano Fujiyama as seen through the nose of a B-29 Superfort on its way to bomb Tokyo. Superfort crews make use of the volcano as a guide to the Jap capital.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Field Promotions

Fifth Army noncoms are awarded commissions in Italy. In the rear are Lt. Donald R. Sprow, Lt. DeWitt H. French and Lt. Peter DeAugustine

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Trick Dog

Irving Chornus holds a hoop for Hi-Ki, a Doberman pinscher in the K-9 Corps, New Caledonia.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Fake Tank

A Yank in France examines one of the dummy wooden tanks erected by the Germans near Metz. It’s a wooden frame with a drain-pipe gun mounted on a cart. From a distance it looks realistic.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Pacific McCarthy

S/Sgt Alex P. Smallwood sits on the knee of his friend, Sgt. Bob Mundstedt, in Dutch New Guinea. A couple of Javanese boys impressed by his patter.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Moving Day

When the PX at Southeast Asia Command HQ got a new 2,600-pound refrigerator, the problem was: How to move it? A local elephant helped the PX boys turn the trick.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Liberation Bob

Filipino Blas Sypaco of Tacloban gets his first haircut in three year. He let his hair grow throughout the Japanese occupation.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Rocket Landing

An LCI in the first assault wave on Mindoro, the Philippines, lays down a rocket barrage on the shore.

YANK 2 Feb 1945

Iron Man Battalion

Iron Man Battalion

By Sgt. JOE MCCARTHY

The old-timers of this 34th Division outfit have sweated it out longer than any other infantrymen in Europe—three years overseas with 350 days spent in the front lines of Tunisia and Italy.

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HERE

First man in the ETO

Pfc. Milburn H. Henke of Hutchinson, Minn., walked down the gangplank at Belfast, Northern Ireland, in a 1918 helmet, blouse, necktie, full field pack, M1, gas mask and canvas leggings, and posed on the dock, smiling, for pictures that later appeared in practically every newspaper in the States. That was Jan. 26, 1942. Henke was the center of all that attention because he was the first American soldier in this war to set foot in the European theater.

Infantry Battle in New Georgia

Read the story of some of the harrowing battles fought by American Soldiers on New Georgia as told by Sgt. Mack Morriss.

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HERE

Pullam's Pillbox

By Sgt. EARL ANDERSON

The troop shelter was concrete, reinforced and four feet thick. The GI who blew it open picked up an unexpected decoration.

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HERE

Homage to Bataan

We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan, no mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam. No aunts, no uncles, no nephews, no nieces, no pills, no planes, no artillery pieces, and nobody gives a damn.

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HERE