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YANK — The Army Weekly

British Edition — Oct. 1, 1944  |  Vol. 3, No. 16

Headlines & Contents Summary

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Publication: YANK — The Army Weekly

Edition: British Edition

Date / Vol. / No.: October 1, 1944 | Vol. 3, No. 16

Publisher: Issued weekly by Branch Office, Army Education and Information Division, War Dept., 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y. Printed in Great Britain by Odhams (Watford) Ltd., Watford.

Pages Scanned: 24

Price: 3d

Managing Editor: Not individually credited on the masthead; editorial staff listed under “YANK Editorial Staff, British and Continental Editions” (incl. Sgt. Earl Anderson, Cpl. Edmund Antrobus, Cpl. Tom Bernard, Sgt. Francis Burke, Cpl. Frank Bush, Sgt. Jack Coggins, Sgt. Bill Davidson, Cpl. Durbin Horner, Sgt. Howard Katzander, Cpl. John Preston, Cpl. Justus J. Cremer, Sgt. Sanderson Vanderbilt, and others).

Cover Page

Cover photo shows an American armored car crew riding through a Belgian town as jubilant civilians wave and greet them, one holding aloft a flag. Cover headline: “Through Belgium—On The Way To Unter den Linden” (story on pages 2, 3, 4 and 5). No separate edition-specific second cover is present in this scan, and no “This Week’s Covers” credit line is given for this issue.

Major Headlines & Content

With the Belgian White Army

By Sgt. Bill Davidson, YANK Staff Correspondent

Belgium’s underground Armee Blanche (White Army), which had resisted the Germans since 1940, took up arms openly alongside advancing American troops to seize bridges, guard prisoners, and clear the way through cities like Charleroi.

Names: Sgt. Bill Davidson, Major Sidney Brodie, Lt. Col. David Goodwin, Lt. Edward Stolenwerck

Crossing Belgium

By Cpl. John Preston, YANK Staff Correspondent

A YANK correspondent rides with a jeep convoy and later an armored task force as American troops race across Belgium to the German border amid cheering crowds and scattered German resistance.

Names: Cpl. John Preston, Lt. T. Huke, Pvt. W. Alexander, Pfc. R. Benaglio, Pvt. W. G. Hines, T/5 W. H. Otis, Major Keene Wilson

Armored Patrol

YANK artist Cpl. Jack Coggins illustrates a Fourth Armored Division reconnaissance unit’s dangerous probe of German defenses outside the naval port of Lorient.

Names: Cpl. Jack Coggins

Merrill’s Makeshift Artillery

By Sgt. Dave Richardson, YANK Staff Correspondent

Mule skinners with Merrill’s Marauders in northern Burma improvised as artillery crews, learning to fire captured pack howitzers to help break a Japanese siege on Nhpum Ga hill.

Names: Sgt. Dave Richardson, S/Sgt. John A. Acker, Maj. Edwin J. Briggs, T-4 Robert L. Carr, S/Sgt. Henry E. Hoot, Pvt. John W. (Red) Seegars

Tough Shipment Ticket

By Sgt. Sanderson Vanderbilt, YANK Staff Correspondent

A humorous account of the maddening State Department visa and re-entry paperwork a GI must wade through just to be allowed back into the United States after the war.

Yanks in the ETO: Village Tragedy

By Cpl. Joe Schiffman

A French village holds a mass funeral for civilians massacred by retreating Nazis, and a related atrocity near St. Pol de Leon is documented as bodies are exhumed for proper burial.

Names: Cpl. Joe Schiffman

Jerry and the Jabos

By Tom Bernard, Sp.(x)1c, USNR, YANK Staff Correspondent

Captured German paratroopers and a Wehrmacht sergeant describe how much they fear American P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bombers and artillery fire more than any other Allied weapon.

Names: Tom Bernard, S/Sgt. Hans Deppish

Three More Divisions in France

Brief unit histories introduce the Fifth Infantry, Seventh Armored, and Thirty-Fifth Infantry Divisions, tracing their formation and training before deployment to the European front.

Yank’s United States

By Sgt. Ralph Stein, YANK Staff Artist

A comic two-page map cartoons each of the 48 states with playful caricatures of the sights GIs look forward to seeing again back home.

Names: Sgt. Ralph Stein

News from Home

A roundup of stateside news covers a senator’s postwar Army manpower estimate, Roosevelt and Dewey trading campaign charges over demobilization, and returning servicemen and celebrities in the headlines.

Names: Senator Elmer Thomas, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas E. Dewey, Mrs. Ruth Knuth, Venus Ramey

The Sad Sack: “Objective”

By Sgt. George Baker

The wordless comic strip follows Sad Sack’s mock, sign-marked slog toward Paris, gag panel by gag panel.

Names: Sgt. George Baker

War Against Weather

A Newfoundland Signal Corps crew battles blizzards, deep snowdrifts, and sub-zero cold for three weeks to haul equipment up a mountain and string an installation, at the cost of one man’s life.

Names: T/Sgt. Gerald McCarthy, Pfc. Robert Malloy, T-5 James Jasperse, Sgt. Walter McKinney, T-5 Mike Reynolds, Sgt. Frank Bode

What Do You Think of American Soldiers?

YANK photographer Sgt. Steve Derry asks six young women in Cairo for their candid opinions of American GIs while photographing them.

Names: Sgt. Steve Derry, Edna Hindie, Barbara Charalambous, Anne Fanning, Margaret Yazbek, Aziza Shoukry, Queenie O’Hanian

Other Content

Gale Storm — full-page YANK pin-up girl photo feature.

Yank’s AFN Radio Guide — weekly schedule of Allied Expeditionary Forces Program broadcasts for the week of Oct. 1, including Guy Lombardo, Harry James, the Dinah Shore Show, the Crosby Music Hall, and Command Performance.

Mail Call — reader letters on OCS eligibility, nurse fraternization rules, hospital staffing, prisoner treatment, and other GI concerns; no notable named contributors beyond initials/pseudonyms.

Back-cover cartoon page — single-panel gag cartoons.

Names: Leo Teholiz, RM 2/c; Cpl. Jack Doherty; Pvt. Fred Wildfoerster; Pvt. Tom Flannery; Pvt. John Bryson