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August 25 1944          Alaska Edition          Vol. 3 No. 10          24 Pages

Cover: Pvt. Sack has just counted the 12 fingers on his two hands and realizes that he’s been kicking around in the Alaska Edition for one full year now. His buddies are wishing Sack a happy anniversary, but he’s no round haircut. He’s already started sweating out rotation. He says his replacement is on the way.

Articles in this issue:

Alaskaleutian Newsreel
(MP PFC. Anthony R, Gutierez)

All This And Attu
By Cpl. John Haverstick

Alaska’s Gandy Dancers
This operating battalion has helped the Alaska Railroad to carry the heaviest traffic in the line’s 21-year history.
By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers
(Pfc. Floyd R. (Pat) Headden, Sgt. Philip G. Sanchez, Lt. Col. Herbert Spencer Huron, Sgt. Edward Y. Hornsby, Sgt. Ned Stainback, Sgt. Blair H. Raycroft, Maj. William Thomas, M/Sgt. Perce B. Hale, T/Sgt. Clarence B. Johnson, Capt. August Annunziato, Pvt. Roy W. Kampen, Brig. Gen. Carl Gray, Sgt. Philip G. Sanchez)

Snowfoot’s Best Friend
By Sgt. Ray Duncan

Home Towns in Wartime
Fairbanks, Alaska
By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers
(Mrs. Eva McGown, Harry E. Pratt, Eleanor Ely, “Sticky” Griffin, “Cap” Lathrop)

First Anniversary Alaska Edition
YANK’s special Alaska Edition starts its second year with a reminder that your own stories, pictures, and cartoons about Alaska, the Aleutians and Canadian Northwest are still welcome at the YANK Alaska Bureau, HO Alaskan Department, APO 942, Seattle, Wash.

Starnes Enterprises
By Sgt. Al Weisman
(Sgt. Walter D. Starnes, Olivia DeHavilland, Ingid Bergman)

Patter of Wee Paws
By Sgt. Herman Silverman
(Pvt. Jack (Pappy) Rutherford. Pfc. Earl South and Sgt. Glenn Rice)

By-Choice Americans
By Pvt. Jerome Sheldon
(Simon Hellenthal, Mrs. Anna May Thompson, Noel K. Wennblom, Brig. Gen. William L. Thompson)

B-rated Movies
By Sgt. Ray Duncan
(Trudy Marshall, Sheila Ryan, Anthony Quinn, Cpl. Hal Sykes, Paulette Goddard, T-5 Dashiell Hammett)

He Seen His Duty
By Cpl. William Carpenter Good

Switzerland of the Pacific
Plenty of American soldiers and marines have “fought the battle of Queens Street,” resting up in New Zealand after combat.
By Sgt. Barrett McGurn
(T-4 Joe Reilly Jr, Cpl. Jack String, T-4 Lucien B. Tew)

Picnic at Sansapor
There were no Japs to fight when our forces leapfrogged up the New Guinea coast, moving 200 miles closer to the Philippines.
By Sgt. Charles Pearson

The Soldier Speaks: What should we do with the Germans and Japs after the war?
This page of GI opinion on important issues of the day is a regular feature of YANK.

Practice What We Preach
By T-5 Alva E. Zimmerman

Too Idealistic
By Pvt. James McCartney

Turn Them Into Friends
By Cpl. Fran Lewis

Masses Against Rulers
Pfc. P. Croll

Modern 14 Points
By Pvt. Saul Israel

Roman Holiday
The Mussolini Stadium, built by the chunky Duce back in 1939 to house (he thought) post-war Olympic Games, had its opening big show when GIs, changing its name to Il Foro D’Italia, held the finals of the Allied Track and Field Championships. The meet, photographed by Sgt. George Aarons, was not so fancy as the Penn Relays, but a GI crowd of 25,000 got its money’s worth.
(Sgt. Fred Snell, Capt. E. P. Shaw, Maj. R. F. Pilley, Sgt. Robert White, Sgt. Tahar Ben Smain, Pfc. Willie Steele, Pvt. Zemeri Cox, Pfc. Dick Ford, Cpl. Jack Reynolds, Spr. Banta Singh)

Mail Call

American Superiority
(Cpl. H. Alexander, T/Sgt. Sam Weiner, Cpl. Elbert R. Sisson, Cpl. Thomas E. Tracey, C. C. Lewis MM3c, H. E loop MoMM2c, M. F. Figaro S1c, D. M. Roche S1c, S. L. Rogers S2c)

Safe for Imperialism
(Pvt. Frank Genovese)

Political Platforms
(Pfc. Arthur A. Noyes, Sgt. Arthur J. Kaplan)

Prize Story
(Pvt. Stan Epstein, Weldon Giniger S2c, S/Sgt. H. E. Trent)

Japanese GIs
(Sgt. Frank Mizufuka, Cpl. Robert L. Hill)

They Thought It Was Loaded
(Cpl. Lloyd I. Roberts, Pvt. Robert Wirk, Pvt. Ralph Curtis, Cpl. R. J. Wren, Cpl. Ernest Harrison, Pfc. Gene Hunzmann)

Red Cross Loans
(Cpl. Merle O. Davis)

Those Permanent Parties
(Lt. Hal Bacou)

News from Home
     Strike in Philadelphia
(James H. McMenamin, James P. McGranery, Joseph G. Harrison, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Gerald L. K. Smith, Gov. John W. Bricker, Herbert Brownell Jr., Damon Runyon, Hamilton Fish Jr., Roy McKittrick, Bennett Clark, James F. Byrnes)

     Names in the News
(Jackie Cooper, Manuel Quezon, Sergio Otmena, Justice Robert Jackson, Harold Ickes, Oona O’Neill, Eugene O’Neill, Charlie Chaplin, Capt. Quentin Roosevelt)
     Odds & Ends Dept.

The Sad Sack
“Information”
By Sgt. George Baker

The Hot Jeep Department
By Cpl. Tom Shehan

Strictly G.I.
     Overseas Strength
     Army Losses
     P-63 Replacing P-39
     Sanitary Corps Officers
     M-Dog Mine Spotters
     Malaria Rate Cut
     Army Nurses
     GI Shop Talk
(Sgt. Charles E. Butler, Daniel B. Stoops)
New Overseas Service Bar

Sgt. Pete Paris
First enlisted man to report for duty on the editorial staff of YANK was killed in action June 6 on the Normandy beachhead

Washington OP
(Catherine F. Lenroot, John W. Studebaker, Lt. Col. John K. Daly, Lt. Gen. Carl Wilhelm Von Schlieben, Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis)

Post War Flying
Aircraft manufactures are deep in big plans but the plane won’t replace the family automobile for quite a few years after the war.
By Sgt. Merle Miller
(William B. Stout, Dr. Harry Ganders, Oliver Parks, Joseph T. Geuting, W. A. Patterson, W. T. Piper)

YANK Pin-up Girl
Marie McDonald

What goes on in the Entertainment World back home
     Hollywood
(Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Tex Harding, John Thye, Elmo Lincoln, Janis Carter, Paul Muni, Nancy Kelly, Lee Tracy, Bill Bendix, Bob Hope, Ed Gardner, Charlie Cantor, Eddie Green, Marguerite Chapman, Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Jane Powell, Brian Aherne, Susan Hayward, Arthur Treacher, Hattie McDaniel)
     Air Waves
(Florence Robinson, George S. May, Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx)
     Band Beat
(Billie Rogers, Herbie Fields, Count Basie, Earl Hines, Erskine Hawkins, Cab Calloway, Earl Warren, Peggy Mann)
     Coast To Coast
(Reva Reyes, Carl Meier, Dr. L. H. Baker, June Haver, Jimmy Dorsey and Sammy Kaye)

Win, Place And—Oh, Brother!

Pitcher’s Year
It’s an even bet that the six pitchers shown on this page will win 20 games each this season. Most of them have already notched 15 or more victories. Not since 1939 have there been so many possible 20-game winners. In that year eight made the grade: Bob Feller, Dutch Leonard, Buck Newsom, Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Luke Hamlin, Curt Davis and Red Ruffing
(Tex Hughson, Dizzy Trout, Mort Cooper, Hal Newhouser, Bill Voiselle)

Sports: Mehl’s Victory Features Allied Olympics In Rome
By Sgt. James P. O’Neill
(Banks McFadden, Lt. Walter Mehl, Ens. Bill Bonthron, Pvt. Fred Sickinger, Sgt. Tahar Ben Smain)

Sports Service Record
(Capt. Hank Greenberg, Pvt. Fritzie Zivic, Capt. George Franck, Jimmy Dykes, Bill McGowan, Lt. (jg) Ira Kepford, Maj. Connie Smythe, Jackie Callura, Max Marshall, Chet Ross, Max Macon, Pvt. Jimmy Bloodworth)

YANK Cartoons

YANK, The Army Weekly, publication issued weekly by Branch Office, Army Information, MSD, War Department, 205 East 42d Street, New York 17, N. Y. Reproduction rights restricted as indicated in the masthead on the editorial page. Entered as second class matter July 6, 1942, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.00 yearly. Printed in the U. S. A.