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Vol. 1 No. 27

Cover: Time Off — These GI Fishermen used a grenade instead of a pole to get a mess of fish for their dinner. Shown by a mountain stream in Luxembourg are Pvt. Bill Weaver of West Point, Tenn., and T-5 Walter B. Komenick of Marathon, Wis. ……. Two GIs Tell How They Spent Six Days Behind the Jerry Lines

Articles Inside: …

6 Days behind the Jerry Lines / By Sgt. Ed Cunningham (84th Division, Pfc. Frederick E. Patterson, Lt. Edward Gedrich, T-5 Herman J. Smalley)

Talk with a German Medic — PWs like this paratrooper are
reluctant to talk—but the enemy intellectual had plenty to say. / By Sgt. Joe McCarthy (26th Division)

Lone-Wolf Mission — One of the first night-bombing heavies to fly solo from Italy over Germany loses three of its engines and crashes in the sea. / By Cpl George Barrett (Fifteenth Air Force, Blechhammer, S/Sgt. David W. Dykes, T/Sgt. Ted Scott, S/Sgt. James F. Goodrich, Lt. Raymond E. Tuwalski, Lt. Byron S. Martin, Lt. Robert D. Draper, T/Sgt. James F. Miller, Lt. “Ack-Ack” Worth, Lt. Isaac C. Pederson, T/Sgt. Carmine S. Noce)

Home Towns In Wartime – Brooklyn, N.Y. / By Cpl. Hyman Goldberg

Jet Plane (P-59 Airacomet )— This propellerless job, though still a subject for whispers, has been out of the lab many months, carrying our flying men higher and faster than they have ever flown before. / By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers (Alvin M. (Tex) Johnston, Jack Woolams, Frank Whittle, Reginald G. Standerwick, Robert M. Stanley, Col. Lawrence C. Craigie, S/Sgt. Earl Kohler, Sgt. Fred Terry, Cpl. William C, Meyer, Pvt. Hale Kern, Fifteenth Air Force, Ninth Air Force, Lt. Valmore J. Beaudrault, Capt. Ezra Kotcher, Lawrence D. Bell)

Daring Defense — The Infantry got a feeling of cold anger when it saw sights like this communal grave outside Stavelot. (117th Infantry, 30th Division, Capt. John E. Kent)

Alaska Rescue Mission / By Sgt. John M. Greany (Grant Pearson, Bradford Washburn, S/Sgt. Jim Gale)

Mail Call

     Appeal for Justice / By Sgt. A. D. Margiori

     Hospital Train / By Lt. Byron A. Bonnheim

     Cheers / By Pfc. H. 0. Echols

     Jeers / By Sgt. R. K. Bennett

     German Music / By Pvt. Dan Pomkeantz

     Five Spot (1255th Mp Co.)

     How Dry / By S/Sgt. Herman Mack

     Retreat In Palau / By Sgt. A. E. Williams

     Combat Medics / By Pvt. Kent M. Felker

     4-F Athletes / By Sgt. Bob Scott

     Lamont Of An Infantry Rifleman / By Cpl. Alvin L. King

     Combat Uniform / By T-3 Henry Gutienrez And Pvt. R. L. Stritesky

     Relieving Shortage / By Cpl. George S. Wiener

     Researchers / By Sgt. R. G. McKeefery

     Unsung Heroes / By M/Sgt. G. J. Winner

     A Challenge / By S/Sgt. Dan Skinner

     Rear Echelons / Cpl. John Harrison And Pvt. Johnny Rice

     Dutch Bonus / By Cpl. R. J. Manuel

     Post-War Plan / By Sgt. Joseph S. Edelman

News From Home — President Roosevelt made a speech and wrote a letter to Congress; manufacturers and labor opposed a National Service Bill, and there won’t be any more books about Frank Merriwell. (1st Lt. Stanley Plejkyneski, Lt. Col. James Roosevelt)

     Photo (A. N. (Bo) McMillin)

     Photo (Herbert Kelly, Mrs. Margaret Myers)

     Photo (Ardis Sheffer)

     Photo (Mrs. Mathilda Pashko)

     Jobs Wanted

     Letter from the President

     “Essential” (James F. Byrnes)

Names in the News (President Sergio Osmeno, Edward J. Hart, Sgt. Fred J. Boyd, Beardsley Ruml, Fred (Dixie) Walker, Willie Pep, James F. Byrnes, James Francis O’Connor, Francis T. Maloney, Clare Luce, George W. Patten, Burt L. Standish)

The Sad Sack “Enemy Territory” / By Sgt. George Baker

Bulletin Board (1st Lt. Alexis Doster)

In Brief (Chesley Arthur Gragg)

Between 2 Wars / By Sgt. Saul Levitt (Sgt. William Holland, 21st Field Artillery, Fifth Division, Lt. Col. Barns C. Cox)

Snowjob on the Feldwebel / By Sgt. Mack Morriss (Daniel Barton
Jameson)

Evelyn Keyes — YANK Pin-up Girl

Ringside Sketches — On-the-scene drawings of the Allied Boxing Championships in Rome by Pvt. David Shaw, YANK artist. (Lance Cpl. Tommy McGovern, Sailor Marcel Cardan, Capt. Schollick, Sgt. Fidel LaBarba)

Sports By Sgt. Dan Polier

     The Yawkey Air Force (Mr. Connie Mack, Mr. Thomas A. Yawkey, Pinky Higgins, Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop, Lou Finney, Mr. Clark Griffith)

     Sports Service Record (Lippy Leo Durocher, Frank Mancuso, Cpl. Fritzie Zivic, Pvt. Danny Murtaugh, Capt. George Varoff, Lt. Stanley Klores, Lt. Col. Wilmer Allison, Lt. Don Heap, Lt. Comdr. Jim Crowley, Lt. Jimmy Kitts, Rube Melton, Jack Bolling, Stan Musial, Max Lanier)

     Photo (Bucky Walters)

YANK Cartoons