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Vol. 1 No. 3 ……. Cover: Grasshopper Pilot – “Someone’s always asking what the “L” means on my wings,” grinned S/Sgt. Harold Shannon of Alameda, Calif., to YANK Down Under’s Staff Photographer, Sgt. Dick Hanley, who took the picture. “It means Liaison, though we’d rather be called Grasshopper Pilots.” …….. How to Spot Marked Cards in GI Poker ……. Articles Inside: …
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Take a Look Then Run Like Hell! ( Grasshopper Pilots ) By Sgt. Dave Richardson
Jungle Diet – Living Off the Land, GI Mapping Patrol Picks Up Weight By T/5 Gene M. Blake
Marked Cards – John Scarne, gambling expert, found plenty of them in use in crooked card games around Army camps. He tells you here how to spot this common cheating device the next time some wise guy tries it in a pay-day poker or blackjack session. By Allen Churchill Y3c
Poles Fight Back – Remembering Warsaw, they fly bombers over Germany with the RAF and pull no punches against the people who invaded their homeland. By Sgt. Walter Peters
Japs Used Cecil for Clay Pigeon, But He Kept Coming Back For More ( Pvt. Cecil Morse ) By Sgt Georg N. Meyers
In Desert One Man Has Ideal Job; Mess Sergeant a Former Hotel Chef ( T/Sgt. Bill Mayhugh ) By Sgt. Burgess Scott
Sailor Puts in a 16-Hour Day As Post’s One-Man Radio Station ( Donald Wornstaff S1c at WSMS ) By Pfc. Nat O. Bodian
The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker
Onnie of the Engineers
Strictly GI
Sketches from the South Pacific by Sgt. Howard Brodie
Pin-up Girl: Jo Carroll Dennison
Evening Report
The Poets Cornered
Step-Words
TEE-Total
“Keep Initiative in Pacific,” FDR Says
Home Towns in Wartime – Arkadelphia, Ark.. By Bill Davidson
News From Home
Message Center
Mail Call
Sports: Camp Roberts is Glad that Kovacs went to Australia By Sgt. Dave Richardson
Looking Over the Pennant Races
Muscle Man ( Wrestler S/Sgt. Joseph Lynam )
Cartoons