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December 22, 1944          YANK Alaska Edition          Vol. 3 No. 27          24 Pages

Cover: Merry Christmas to all GIs
For Christmas, Sgt. George Baker has given us a Sad Sack who holds the bag even on Christmas Eve. Of course it’s a brigadier’s bag, the bag of Santa Claus, but it’s none the less a bag for that. From the size of Gen. Claus’ corporation, the Sack will wind up drawing the chimney-climbing detail, too.
7th Division Veterans Compare Three Campaigns

Articles in this issue:

Attu, Kwajalein, Leyte
Veterans of the 7th Division compare three campaigns against the Japs
(S/Sgt. Roque Comaduran, T/Sgt. Robert McGrath, Capt. Mervin Elliott, Lt. Col. Francis T. Pachler, Capt. Charles Frazee, Pfc. Roy Alvis, Pfc. Allen Ray, Sgt. Ken Twiss, Sgt. James Madison, S/Sgt. Leland Larson, Lt. Robert J. Mitchell, Lt. Col. John M. Finn, Capt. O. M. Doerflinger, Capt. James E. Grasse, T/Sgt. Raymond Schmidt, T/Sgt. Ernest A. O’Brien, Cpl. Edward Stratton, Lt. Lee A. Banash, WO F. L. Nofer, M/Sgt. Fred R. Thompson, Cpl. Vaughn Hunes, Capt. Paul B. Gritta, Pvt. Howard R. Fry, Maj. Gen. Arch V. Arnold, Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Ready, Brig. Gen. Leroy Stewart, Cpl. James A. Marshall)

Italian Artery
A lifeline pumping supplies to the Fifth Army in Italy is Highway 65. It runs from Florence through the Futa Pass over foggy Apennine peaks to the plains of Emilia. Day and night, military transport of every description moves over its length. Pvt. David Shaw, YANK staff artist, gives his impressions on this page.

YANKS in Alaska
     Dream Furlough
     (S/Sgt. Jack Payne)
     By Sgt. C. I. Swital
     Wave Hello
     (Lt. (jg) Marguerite Hunold)
     Aleutian Sweaterboy
     (J. Robert Dessereau, Cpl. Russell W. Mayer)
     By Pvt. Jerome Sheldon
     Rotating Editor
     (Cpl. Wilson C. Bennett)
     Good Clean Fun
     By Cpl. Arthur C. Abrahamson
     “Wild Blue Yonder”
     (Capt. Robert Crawford)
     GI Northwest Mounties
     (Pfc. Bern J. Morgan and Pvt. Vince Rentle)
     By Sgt. Norman A. Amatutz

Two By Four
Stevedores in one port company claim they have loaded enough lumber in Aleutian-bound ships to build a wooden bridge all the way across to Japan.
By Cpl. John M. Haverstick
(Cpl. Howard Hensley, Sgt. Arthur C. Wendler, Sgt. John A. Menton, 1st Sgt. John J. Kane)

Women in Industry
Will the gal who has your job keep on working after the war or does she think her place is in the home? The answer seems to vary with the lady in question.
By Cpl. Margaret Davis
(Mrs. Warwick Hobart, Mary Anderson, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Mrs. Rose Russo, Cpl. Anthony Russo, Mrs. Ruth Golden, Gustave Golden MoMM2c, Jewel Nalback, S/Sgt. Phillip S. Darby, Mrs. Ethel Henderson, T-5 William E. Henderson, Ann Gavin, Elizabeth Hooker, Charlotte K. Hubley, Frances Widman, Pvt. O. David Widman, Mrs. Wade H. Snell, 1st Lt. Ivan C. Snell, Pfc, Wade H. Snell Jr., Mrs. Julia Thibault, Cpl. Edward Thibault, Mrs. Mary A. Crumm, Thomas W. Keesee, Florence Parker, Gertrude Parker, Augusta Rigaud, Pfc. Alonzo Tye, W. R. Williams Jr., Paul S. Gilbert, F. J. Stickert, Mrs. Agnes Dornicik, Pvt. Rudolph Ruzicka, Viola Dunn, S/Sgt. Eddie Bourgeois, Betty Dryden, Sally Pepper, Betty Townsend, Hannah Baker, Sally Winograd, Eleanor Darnton, Byron Darnton, Adeline Leavy, Mrs. Clara Rothner, Florence Bruns)

The Soldier Speaks:
Should women remain in industry after the war?
     Release Men’s Jobs
     By S/Sgt. Kenneth W Anders
     Not Unless Necessary
     By T-5 Alva E. Zimmerman
     Women Should Go Home
     By Cpl. Sidney Gross
     It’s Up to Them
     By Pvt. Ralph Friedman
     Yes, but—
     By T-4 J. R Young
     Will Quit Voluntarily
     By Edwin R Knight S1c
     Fulfill GIs’ Dreams
     By S/Sgt. J. W. Grooms

Shavetail Without Bars
For nearly three years after his escape from Bataan, a pfc led Filipino guerrilla forces that harassed the Japs on Leyte.
By Cpl. Tom O’Brien
(Joseph St. John, Col. R. K. Kangleon, Ens. Edwin J. Beattie)

War and Weather
On the Western Front, snow and rain make our progress tougher

Mail Call

News From Home
Names In The News
Odds & Ends Dept.

The Sad Sack
“Guests”
By Sgt. George Baker

What’s Your Problem?

A Christmas Poem
By Sgt. Al Hine

News From Home

Yank Pin-up Girl : Hazel Brooks

Navy Notes

1944 All-American College Team
Selected By the Associated Press
(Phillip Tinsley, Donald Whitmire, William Hackett, Caleb Van Warrington, Hamilton Nichols, John Ferraro, Hubert Bechtol, Leslie Horvath, Robert Fenimore, Glenn Davis, Felix Blanchard)
Second Team
(Henry Walker, Leon Bramlett, Milan Lazetich, William Willis, William Hachten, John Green, Felto Prewitt, Thomas McWilliams, Claude Young, Boris Oimancheff and Robert Jenkins)

GI All American Team 1944
Selected By the Associated Press
(Sgt. Jack Russell, Lt. (jg) Joseph Stydahar, Garrard Ramsey SP(A)1c, A/C George Strohmeyer, Russell Letlow CSP, Ens. John Woudenberg, Lt. Nick Susoeff, A/C Otto Graham, Sgt. Charles Trippi, Lt. William Dudley, Lt. Leonard Esmont)
Second Team
(Pvt. Kenneth Whitney, Lt. Charles Perdue, Vic Schleich Sp2c, Donald Cohenour BM1c, Morris Klein AS, Harold Jungmichael CSP, Pvt. Thomas Robertson, Charles Justice SP(A)2c, Lt. Jack Jacobs, Ens. William Daley, Lt. Glenn Dobbs)

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