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YANK     British Edition         Vol. 3 No. 30

Front Cover: Hurricanes On The Eastern Front.
How The Luftwaffe Was Forced Out Of Hiding

Articles Inside:

Big Gestapo Man
Anton Dunckern was the big noise in Metz before he was captured by Doughboys. After that, he was just a big, arrogant Nazi who was under the delusion that all the world loves a fat man, no matter what uniform he wears. But nobody loved this Gestapo chief, including the German military commander of the city.
By Sgt. Saul Levitt
(Col. Constantine Meyer, Leonard O’Reilly, Harry B. Colburn, Amos Caldwell, and Paul Stapleton, Major Edward Marsh, Sgt. Henry Tillinger, Gen. “Red” Irwin)

On Limits
It has been said before that fighting men aren’t much interested in the history of places they’re fighting for—and that’s the way it was in Strasbourg. There were beds, good food and drink and no Off Limits signs–important things to an Infantryman.
By Cpl. John Preston

Pvt. Pullam, Engr.
By Sgt. Earl Anderson
(Combat Engineers, 102nd Infantry Division, 405th Regiment, Carl Pitts, Pfc. Frank Socha, Pfc. Raymond Sobocienske, Lt. William O’Brien, Pvt. Mark Pullam, Pfc. Charles W. Kirk)

Flushing the Luftwaffe…
On November 2, an epic air battle took place over Germany—more Allied fighters opposed to more German fighters in a limited space of sky than ever before in this theater. In the light of subsequent enemy activity, the significance of this furious encounter has become increasingly important, since it was this mission that disclosed the increased production of German fighters, and proved once again that the German pilot is nobody to fool around with.
By Sgt. Maurice Barrangon
(Major George Freddy, Captain Donald Bryant, Colonel Joe L. Mason)

Visit to Tokyo
Two GIs tell how B-29s bombed the Imperial capital, beginning a concentrated campaign to soften up the industry of Japan and pave the way for invasion.
By Sgt. Bill Reed
(Capt. Clement J. (Doc) Maloney, Maj. Walter F. Todd, 2d Lt. Milan P. Kissinger, Maj. Crocker Snow, 1st Lt. Calvin B. Miller, 1st Lt. “Deecee” Decesare, Sgt. Howard Vincent, Sgt. Vincent Caponero, Sgt. Lee R. McCurry, 2d Lt. Roman C. (Pooch) Pucinski, Cpl. Norval G. (Nibs) Oliver, Pvt. Louis Syniec)

Lynn Delivers Her Child
(The B-29 Lucky Lynn, Capt. Leonard Cox, S/Sgt. Frank Crane, S/Sgt. George Wright, Sgt. Larry Beecroft, Sgt. Bill Stovall, Lt. Al Hansen, Lt. Jack Ehrenberg, Maj. Robert K. Morgan, Sgt. Mel Griffith)
By Cpl. Knox Burger

Building the Base
(Sgt. James F. Breahers, 1st Lt. Henry E. McCoy, Cpl. Loren I. Low, Sgt. Andrew Hughes, Sgt. William F. Youngblood, Sgt. Leonard R. Salmons, S/Sgt. John E. Baldore, S/Sgt. Frank M. McLean, Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Hansell Jr., Col. Lyman P. Phillips, Col. Horace W. Shelmire, M/Sgt. William Ray, S/Sgt. William F. Walthousen)

YANK, The Army Weekly, publication issued weekly by Branch Office. Army Education and Information Division. War Dept., 205 East 42nd Street. New York 17, N. Y. Reproduction rights restricted as indicated in the masthead on Mail Call 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.
Printed In Great Britain by Odhams (Watford) Ltd., Watford

Campaign on Leyte
Behind the front and on the firing line, YANK photographers made these pictures of men, machines and animals, all them part of the military pattern of daily life on Leyte Island.
Photos by Mason Pawlak CPhoM, Pfc. Georg Burns. Sgt. Marvin Fasig

YANK Pin-up Girl: Hazel Brooks

News from Home
An expert on the tropics took his honey for a sleighride, an unexpected military development brought grave concern to the holiday season, the 26-to-37s were on the hot spot again, and New Yorkers were considering walking a few thousand miles for a Camel.
(Melkon Arslanian, Sgt. Anthony Serinis, Antoinette Dattilo, J. A. Krug, Samuel W. Anderson, Henry L. Stimson, James F. Byrnes, Arline Bookman, F. H. LaGuardia, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Senator James M. Mead, Anton Schuck, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Mrs. Ella J. Rhone, Mary Ruth Kaylor, Lt. Jasper W. Kaylor, Capt. Morris L. Goren, Col. Allison J. Holifield, Lt. and Mrs. Tom Hannon, Elyse Knox, Dr. W. J. Faulkner, Capt. William J. Faulkner, Cpl. James Slaton, Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, William Grant Still, Eugene Goosens, Deems Taylor, Mrs. Mary C. Dondero, Ira A. Brown, Governor-elect, Millard Caldwell, Spessard Holland, Col. Robert R. McCormick, Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper, Henry Hooper, Amy Urwin Adams McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Mathison, Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Irene Langhorne Gibson, Neil Bondshu, Abdur Rahman Siddiqi, Helen Galka, Beth Schultzm, Gloria Kozlowski, Mert Callis)

The Sad Sack
“Supply Problem”
By Sgt. George Baker

Mail Call
     GIs See Red, Too
     By Pfc. B. A. Lajkowicz, Cpl. Gene Herman
     Also Four Looies
     Transfers Wanted
     By PFC G. K. Jesse
     Suspicious Schnozzola?
     By PFC. S. B. Beck
     Friendship
     By Sgt. Jake Klein, Sgt. Edward H. Jagow, Cpl. Joseph M. Pagan
     Tax Proposal
     By Cpl. Harold A. Smith
     Sky Patrol
     By Pvt. James Kennedy, Pvt. William Draryk
     Army Education
     By Pfc. Charles C. Deininger
     Troubles
     Nostalgia Dept.
     Trench Feet
     By Pvt. Eugene Bouvier
     Post War Rank And Pay
     By T/Sgt. E. G. Reames, M/Sgt. J. F. LaBonte
     Ocean and Devotion

Football at Home and Abroad
(Pvt. Scott Holtman, Pfc. Russell Hahn, Cpl. Joe Iwaszek)

Sports
Close-Up of the Coach of the Year.
By Sgt. Dan Polier
(Paul Brown, Carroll Widdoes)

Sports Service Record
(Capt. Footsy Britt, Brig. Gen. Rosy O’Donnell, Harry Stuhldreher, Kinrei Matsuyama, Pvt. Beau Jack, Pvt. Jimmy Bivins, Lt. Col. Red Friesel, Maj. Johnny Pingel, Cpl. Nick Basca, Capt. Red Maddox, O/C Ralph Metcalfe, O/C Al Blozis, Lt. Col. Earl Blaik, Maj. Andy Gustafson, Lt. Pete Layden, Lt. Jack Freeman, Capt. Orbin Hanks)

Yanks in the ETO
     He Smiles At The Yanks
     (John Boilleau)
     Odds and Ends
     (405th Infantry Regiment)
     By Sgt. Earl Anderson

The Count

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