Senator Harry Truman

Senator Harry Truman, Democrat of Missouri, got browned off about the nation's press. "Ever since I've been in the Senate" complained the Senator, who was first elected to his post in 1935, "it's been the policy of the press to make it appear that the legislative branch of the Government is made up of morons."

YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

Left Side?

"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 British Edition

News From Home

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 19 March 1944 British Edition

Excuse Me Son!

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 family reunion in London. The young lady in question is Wac Sgt. Geraldine Brennan, of Glens Falls, N. Y.

YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition

17 March 1944

Read this entire issue of YANK Magazine: HERE

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News From Home

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 City could navigate downstream.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Air Portrait

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Raid On The Marshalls

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 Jap bases in the Marshalls. He tells how his B-25 blasted the enemy with its 75-mm gun.

Article by Cpl. Larry McManus

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Read the first page HERE
and read the second page HERE

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Pacific Raiders

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

Read about the American Submarine fleet in action in the Pacific taking a large chunk out of Japanese shipping. Read the full article HERE.

Article by Sgt. Charles D. Pearson

Drawing by Pfc. Wathall

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Fleetfoot

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

News From Home

New York:

New York University announced the establishment of Gold Star scholarships to provide four years tuition to the children of the university's graduates who lose their lives in this war.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Good NonCom Material

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. Despite his 10 deferments, Micciulla has been classified 1-A.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

News From Home

Oklahoma:

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Tight Formation

I wish the CO wasn't such a bug on tight formation.

By Sgt. Allan Ferguson

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Joe Louis

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, that he wanted (1) a furlough, which he got; )2) overseas duty, which he'll get; (3) another bout with Conn.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

News From Home

Delaware:

Thousands of residents between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach watched a blazing sea of oil five miles off the Delaware Capes caused by the collision of two merchnt ships.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Boogie Woogie Washerwoman

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 homely and she's ugly

With a ring through her nose

But she's the one I love

Because she washes all my clothes!

By Cpl. Gene Schneider

News From Home

Connecticut.

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

For the rest of the nation, this didn't occur until the Vietnam war.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Chili Williams

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 from 1944 to 1952. She was known as the "The Polka Dot Girl" from these WWII pin ups.

She was about 22 when this picture was taken. Chili Williams died in 2003.

Learn more about Chili Williams and see more pictures: HERE and HERE

News From Home

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 passengers along the way, but they abandoned the vehicle when the gas tank ran dry.

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Women Firefighters in Laurel, MD

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

First Motorwoman

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

The only casualty

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

Photo by Sgt. Dillon Ferris

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

The Bombardment of Buka

During the bombardment of Buka in the northern Solomons, this cruiser's portside guns light up the night.

Photo by Sgt. Dillon Ferris

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

Slogging along in Italy

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 Down Under Edition

Forward! By rope and by foot

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

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

HUNGRY

Sad Sack - Hungry

YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition

By Sgt. George Baker

Read more about George Baker: HERE

Nimitz

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

Read it: HERE

Envelopes to send a little humor home

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

See more: HERE

The PT Boat That Was Half Submarine!

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 all American naval history.

For example, a PT Boat skipper, home on furlough, told of this amazing incident when
he visited the Packard plant recently . . .

"With a man-sized hole smashed in our hull, we took on a lot of water in no time at all.
"But those Packard engines, submerged until only the spark plugs and carburetors were above water, pulled us more than a mile to shore.

"Afterward,” he grinned, "the officer in charge of the engines said that if we'd gone much farther that way, he'd have had to duck his head under water to shift gears!

"The hard-hitting PT boats, powered by the engines you build, have been and will continue to be one of the most valuable weapons of this war," the lieutenant added.

Stories like this . . . told by PT men who continually "bet their lives" on the performance of these precision-built Packard marine engines . . . make us proud of being able to justify their faith so completely and so consistently.

This Ad appeared in The Saturday Evening Post 4 Aug 1945

Artist is Ben Stahl. Read more about Ben Stahl HERE.

Iwo Jima Medical Facilities

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

Photo Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.

You can purchase this photo: Here

Red Cross Worker

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 returned from a bombing mission. This photo is one of a large of number of studies taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the war in the Pacific.

Photo Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.

You can purchase this photo: Here

Nurse with wounded on Iwo Jima

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 Surabachi, from which the U.S. flag was first flown ten days before, can be seen in the background. This photograph is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the prolonged battle for Iwo Jima. She was present within nine days of the first Marine landing.

Dickey Chapelle was later killed in the Vietnam War but not before leaving us with a legacy of amazing photographs.

Read more about Dickey Chapelle: HERE

Photo Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society
You can purchase this photo at: Here

Russian Miracle Man

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 Harbor was attacked, 7 Dec 1941.

Read the article HERE

Sketch by Howard Brodie

Rough color by Todophoto.info

Anti Aircraft

Saturday Evening Post cover for 2 March 1942.

"Anti Aircraft" by Stevan Dohanos

Read more about Stevan Dohanos: Here

Bong-Ace of Aces

General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor at an airstrip on Leyte Island, Philippines.

Photo Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.

Read more about Richard Bong and his amazing record HERE.

Unfortunately Bong was killed in 1945 performing duties as a test pilot at what is now Edwards Air Force Base.

World War II Poster

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 implication is, that talking about privileged war information can get people killed, as this dog's sailor master must have met his fate.

1940's Pin Up Art

March 1944 YANK Covers

World War II Poster

Maria Montez

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 in the Dominican Republic.

Maria made movies from 1940 to 1951. In 1942 she had just finished "Arabian Nights" when this issue of YANK came out.

Maria tragically drowned in her bathtub on 7 Sept 1951, in Paris, France. She was 39 years old.

Read more about Maria Montez: HERE

29 Nov 1942 British Editiion

Read this entire issue of YANK

HERE

These Clerks Saw Action

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 members went through before being assigned to office duties at Headquarters.

How would like to roll gasoline drums off into the Pacific waters in the middle of the night and swim them in to shore. Then roll them 2 miles inland to a hidden airbase on Timor through knee deep swamps.

Article by Sgt. Dave Richardson

Sketch by Cpl. Fred Ray AAF

Rough color by Todophoto.info

READ The Article HERE

Cover 18 Feb 1944

This rough, tough and heavily burdeded soldier is Pvt. Richard M. Moore of Baltimore, Md. attached to a Parachute Infantry regiment in New Guinea. He is pictured wearing full equipment before boarding a plane. Paratroopers in New Guinea were used with notable success in capturing Lae.

YANK 18 Feb 1944

Jungle Mop Up on New Georgia 5

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 bullet.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

The photographs in the previous five frames were taken by Sgt. John Bushemi who was later killed in the performance of his duty as a YANK photographer.

Jungle Mop Up on New Georgia 4

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.

YANK 28 NOv 1943

Jungle Mop Up on New Georgia 3

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

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Jungle Mop Up on New Georgia 2

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.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Jungle Mop Up on New Georgia 1

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

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Yanks for Sale

Pfc. Oscar Spielberg, who used to pedal "Duh Joinal" in the Bronx, not peddles "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" at an 8th Air Force Fighter Station in the ETO.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Interesting we think of something quite different when we combine the words Oscar and Spielberg today.

One less Maru

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

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Jeep Bus

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 things.

YANK 28 Nov 1943

The Marauders

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

YANK 28 Nov 1943

Round One-Africa

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 29 Nov 1942