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YANK, The Army Weekly — Issue Summary

Publication: YANK, The Army Weekly
Edition: Continental Edition
Date / Vol. / No.: April 15, 1945 — Vol. 1, No. 38
Publisher: Published weekly by the enlisted men of the U.S. Army, for sale only to those in the armed services. Herald Building, 21 rue de Berri, Paris, France
Pages Scanned: 24. Instant PDF download.
Price: 3 Francs
Managing Editor: Sgt. Merle Miller

Cover

The cover, titled “Room With a View,” shows a soldier sitting on a radiator amid bombed-out wreckage in Germany, gazing out a shattered window with a framed painting of Hitler propped on the floor beside him. A cover line promotes “Pictures of the U.S. Armies Driving Through Germany.” Per “The Cover” note inside, the man pictured is T/Sgt. Eric Lipman, photographed in the burned-out cellar of Adolf Hitler House in Frankfurt, on the floor of what happens to be a famous meeting room of Ribbentrop, Hitler, and Göring.

Major Articles

The Roads to Berlin
Photo essay — U.S. Third, Seventh, First, and Ninth Army units driving through the crumbled towns and cities of western Germany toward the Rhine and beyond.

“There Were No Nazis”
By Cpl. Howard Katzander — Occupied Cologne’s residents claim no one was ever a Nazi, despite hidden uniforms and swastikas.

Reunion
By Sgt. Saul Levitt — Third Army recon troops liberate a German hospital holding wounded American and Allied POWs.

Celebration at Wetzlar
By Sgt. Ed Cunningham — Third Armored Division troops and liberated foreign workers celebrate the town’s capture.

“Iron Mike’s Men”
By Cpl. Bob Krell — Profile of the Third Infantry Division’s veterans and its many decorated soldiers under Maj. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike” O’Daniel.

Manila
Photo essay by Sgt. Dick Hanley and Cpl. Roger Wrenn — Scenes of the ruined, liberated city in the Philippines.

The Battle of Lexington Avenue
By Cpl. Knox Burger — Humor piece recalling basic training at New York’s Grand Central Palace induction station.

GI Shopping Service
By Cpl. Hyman Goldberg — How a New York volunteer service buys and mails gifts for GIs overseas.

News From Home

Homefront roundup — optimism over V-E Day prospects, Japan’s cabinet shakeup, the San Francisco conference, and other stateside items.

Sports: Joe Cronin Thinks the Rest of the American League Will Trail the Yankees and Detroit
By Cpl. Tom Shehan — Red Sox manager Joe Cronin previews the American League pennant race.

Art

Combat-artist sketches accompany “The Battle of Lexington Avenue,” credited to Cpl. Knox Burger. The regular Sad Sack strip (“Assistance”) is by Sgt. George Baker.

Pin-up
Dorothy Malone.

Soldier Photo
The cover itself is a photo of a soldier, T/Sgt. Eric Lipman, seated amid the ruins of Adolf Hitler House in Frankfurt.