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Vol. 1 No. 38
Cover: One For The Road – Cochran’s Commandos land behind Jap Lines in Burma — The British soldier enjoying that healthy swig of beer is one of the late Gen. Wingate’s jungle fighters. A few minutes after downing his “one for the road”, he was on that glider en route to the all-aerial invasion of Burma with Cochran’s Commandos. The jungle-camouflaged soldier on the left is a Yank.
Articles Inside: …
Cochran’s Commandos — These Yanks landed their gliders on a moonlit Burma rice paddy 150 miles behind Japanese lines to start the first all-aerial invasion in history. Their equipment and tactics would turn Buck Rogers green with envy.
(Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Col. Philip G. Cochran, Lt J. J. Shinkle, Lt. D E. Seese, Major Richard W. Boebel, Sgt. Cyrus Porter, Major William H. Taylor, T/Sgt. Perry L. Garten, 2nd Lt. Neal Blush, Cpl. John Kinner, S/Sgt. Raymond J. Bluthardt, Sgt. Stanley J. Ryniec, Sgt. William W. Geider, Cpl. Ralph R. Hammond, Pfc. Raymond Hylton, Cpl. Walter J. Hybarger, Cpl. Merling E. Sneed, Pvt. Robert E. Wade, Pfc. Paul F. Johnson, 2nd Lt. Robert Brackett, Cpl. Joe Satarno, Lt. H. J. Delaney, Sgt. Richard H. Barlow, Sgt. F. W. Hutchinson, M/Sgt. Otto Grunow, T/Sgt. Alex McGregor, S/Sgt. James Oliveto, Major Andrew P. Rebori, M/Sgt. Thomas J. Hawes, T/Sgt. Fintan Maegerle, T/Sgt. Robert F. McMillan, T/Sgt. Glen W. Snyder, T/Sgt. John C. Derdak, M/Sgt. Howard Class, S/Sgt. Arthur M. Cherry, S/Sgt. Morris D. McManama, S/Sgt. Richard T. Snyder, M/Sgt. James Ryan, T/Sgt. Charles E. Fisher, T/Sgt. Joseph Lysowski, S/Sgt, Irwin J. Kersey, S/Sgt. Nicholas Kosko, S/Sgt. Willard L. Roy, S/Sgt. John C. Gallagher, S/Sgt, Austin B. Howe, F/O Jackie Coogan, Major William T. Cherry, Jr., F/O Billy Mohr, F/O Vernon Noland, Cpl. Walter Hybarger, 1st Lt. Jerome Andrulonis, Pfc. Robert Bennett, Cpl. Ronald J. Cain, Sgt. Joseph D. Walker, Pfc. Kay C. Eminbitzer, Capt. Lester J. Murray, Capt. Duke Phillips, Capt. Lester J. Murray, Flight Officers Jake Newland, Walter M. Steinke, Hadley Baldwin, Troy Shaw, Capt. John N. Dehoney, 1st Lt. Vincent L. Ulery, F/O Charles Turner)
Antipersonnel Bombs Drive You Nuts in the Solomon Islands / By Sgt. Barrett McGurn (Pvt. Eugene K. Lampkin)
Former Valet to Hollywood Stars Greets Them at Middle East Air Base / Cpl. Sam D. Melson (Cpl. Ralph C. Budd)
Nothing Like a Little Surprise To Break the New Guinea Monotony / Cpl. Ralph Boyce (Sgt. Emil Raninen, Cpl. Eugene Weinard, S/Sgt. Charles Allhands)
“Woodman/ Spare That Tree”: New Version From the Fifth Army (Cpl. Clyde L. Hardin, Pvt. Judy Brooks)
Puerto Rican Soldier — Pvt. Fulano de Tal, the typical GI, is proud of his island, fights well and likes rice, beans and the rumba. / By Sgt. Lou Stoumen (Col. Pedro del Valle, 1st Lt. Jesus Maldonado, 1st Lt. Manuel Vicente, Pvt. Fulano de Tal)
Mental Breakdowns In The Army — What causes psychoneurosis at the front lines? Usually it does not develop in men who have a clear idea of the necessity for the war and understand why they had to
get into a GI uniform and do the fighting. / By Sgt. Mack Morriss
First Mission (B-17s) / By Sgt. Saul Levitt
In Italy / By Sgt. George Aarons (T-5 Joe Fillippo, Victoria Hansen and Carrie Sheetz)
Mail Call
Returning Veterans / By Pvt. John G. Hutsko, Cpl. David H. Adams, Pvt. Charles R. Geer, T-3 James C. Hetrick, M/Sgt. H. Copple,
Oops / By Edwin D. Peacock, RM2c
Wacs Hit Back / By Pvt. Carol J. Swan, Pvt. Helen London, Pfc. Mildred McGlamery, Cpl. Sophie Woitel, Pvt. Sybil Watson, 1st/Sgt. Edith F. Krouse, T-4 Jane Nugent, Col. Frances Clough, Cpls. Adelaid J. Swett, Nora F. Fields, Beatrice Schweitzer and Sgt. Adelaide Bishop
Jumping With Helmets / By Capt. Gustave J. Schwabe
Message Center (John D. Anderson, Sgt. Jack T. Gordon, Pvt. Leslie C. Anderson, James Bannan, Pvt. Elmer Ardale, Jon Brumbea S2c, Pfc. Edsel Davis, Pfc. Al Pempey, Pfc. Jack T. Davis, Pfc. Paul Hankins, John R. Delmore, Cpl. S. M. Goldberg, Pvt. Melvin Demery, Pvt. R. C. Christiansen, Sgt. Vincent Di Nicola, Cpl. George Ponnaselli, Louis Durland, Pvt. Fred J. Drouillard, Lt. Col. Ben Jacobs, Cpl. Ken Jacobs, Frank Jacueo, Cpl. Sam Wurtzel, Cpl. Robert Jollota, Pvt. John Uhler, Pvt. Royal P. Laskey, Pvt. Roger & Pfc. Venny Laskey, T-5 Frank J. Law, Pfc. J. J. Keul, Dr. Abel J. Leader, Pvt. Fred J. Drouillard, Pvt. William Leader, Pfc. Knestrict, Pvt. Jack McCormick, Pfc. Frank Headrick, Lt. (jg) Ralph R. Mackey, T-5 Aarne J. Mackey, WO Walter Melvin, E. Enix, Pfc. Henry Mengel, Pvt. Walter Suchojad, Pvt. Joseph J. Pasciotty, Pvt. Cy Ficarro, Sgt. Richard Paterni, Sgt. Johnnie Wood. . . . Edward Plambeck, Pvt. Anton A. Valincius, Cpl. Joseph Price, S/Sgt. Willie Bryant)
Shoulder Patch Exchange
News From Home
Soldier Legislation
Odds & Ends Dept. (Judge Francis E. Donoghue, Novell Wetherington, Arnold Lindl, Paul E. Flato, Robert Rapoport, Mrs. Robert F. R. Peters)
Officer Goes Amuck (Lt. Beaufort G. Swancutt, Miss Dorothy Douglas, Miss Lourdine Livermore, Arthur B. Simpson, Capt. Aubrey G. Serflin)
No Long Faces, No Funeral Frippery, Humorist Decrees (Irvin S. Cobb)
Names In The News (Mickey Rooney, Ralph Edwards, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Joseph C. Lincoln, Myrna Loy, John D. Hertz Jr., Loretta Young, Lt. Col. Tom Lewis, Charlie Chaplin, Joan Barry, Lt. Rudy Vallee, Betty Jane Greer, Albert Einstein, Anne Hagopian, Charles A. Davidson, Dan Howley, Gil Dodds, James H. Price)
The Sad Sack “Souvenir Hunter” / By Sgt. George Baker
Nothing Can Stop The ‘Censored’ / By Sgt. Ray Duncan
Strictly G.I.
No AAF Transfers
Our Casualties
New Field Pack
Drama in the Field
ASTP Courses
Medical Equipment
Washington O.P. (Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale)
News From Home
Arkansas (Rev. Ransom Hayden)
California (Raleigh Spurlock)
Connecticut (Mrs. Catherine Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. James DeFrancisco, Harry Williamson)
Delaware (H. Fletcher Brown, Rev. C. Stanley Lowell, Rev. M. W. Marine, Gen. Thomas Holcomb, USMC)
District Of Columbia (Julius Fisher, Catherine Reardon, Clark Griffith)
Florida
Illinois (S/Sgt. William Pettigrew, William Hoye Sr.)
Indiana
Iowa (Raymond Simbro, John Culp, William Bare)
Kansas (George Hale)
Kentucky (Carl Heustis)
Massachusetts
Michigan (Capt. Seward Freed, Mrs. Sidney Nelson, Howard Senkpiel)
Minnesota (Ernie Defort, Dr. Henry Meyerding)
Mississippi (Mrs. Lulu Abraham, Ralph Henry Barbour)
Missouri (Mrs. Vesta Rogers, Timothy (Ted) Cronin)
Nebraska (Drs. Andrew and Fred Amick, Mrs. E. M. Ruby)
New Hampshire (George Pelky)
New Mexico (Tito Valdez, Cruz Trupillo)
New York (Mrs. Ruth Augello)
Ohio (Captain Lester Mercia, Mrs. Rose Sabol)
Oklahoma (District Judge Van Meter)
Pennsylvania (Mrs. John Crooks)
Rhode Island (Charles Capron)
South Carolina (W. G. Smith)
South Dakota (Charles Manson, W. E. Pickering, Arthur Johnson, Bert Gednalske, Frank Emery, Joe Medak)
Tennessee (Col. Herbert Fox, Earl Stricklin)
Texas (H. B. Bliss, Aglae Edwards)
Utah
Virginia
Washington (Rear Adm. Taffinder, Morrill Folsom, Mr. and Mrs. James Goman)
Wisconsin (Father Peter Brooks)
YANK Pin-up Girl: Irene Manning
The Poets Cornered
Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back From the War / By Wang Chien
Buna Beach / By Pfc. Keith B. Campbell
Winter Afternoon / By Pfc. Lowell Richard
The Freighter / By Pvt. Norman Gelber
Travel Note / By Sgt. Jack N. Carl
Victim Of War / By Cpl. Walter A. Armbruster
Transition Flight / By Sgt. William R. Carty
Tee-Total
Narrow Escape (Math Quiz)
Puzzle Solutions
Ringside view of the Allied Boxing Tourney (Pvt. Marshall Higa, Pvt. Larry Cisneros, Pvt. Tom Guzzardo, Pvt. Cecil Shumway, Lt. John Sullivan, Pvt. Robert Barry, Cpl. Zeke Bonura, Rene Pons, Pvt. Perry Bryson)
Sports: Kentucky Derby Horses: Their Lives And Loves / By Sgt. Dan Polier
Sports Service Record (Marcel Cerdan, Henry Armstrong, Leo Durocher, Steve O’Neill, Pvt. Alton Wilkie, Yankee Billy Johnson, A/C Howie Pollett, Mac Rothenberg, Sgt. Freddie Mills, Gus Lesnevich, Capt. Jeff Dickson, Lt. Tom Harmon, Joe Beggs, Betty Hicks, Johnny Gilbert, Tony Galento, Dick Bartell, Jimmy Orlando, Bill Dietrich, Joe Glenn, Steve Sundra, Bill Baker, Bob Klinger, Dixie Walker, Ray Mueller, George Metkovich, Tony Galento)
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