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Vol. 1 No. 12 ……. Cover: Road to Victory – YANK Down Under’s Sgt. Dave Richardson snapped these Aussies of the Ninth Division as they trudged along the trail from Malahang Mission to Lae. A step from the mud to either left or right would put them in tangles of vines and dense brush. ……. YANK Covers the Battle for Lae ……. Articles Inside:
Race for Lae – Japs Were Just Annoying Obstacles in the Path When Two Crack Australian Divisions Began a Jungle Contest That Will Be Remembered Longer Than the Melbourne Cup. The Buna-Famed Seventh Won By a Nose. by Sgt. Dave Richardson
The New Dutch Soldier – Some are scattered with the Allies all over the world but most of them wait with the Princess Irene Brigade in England for the day they’ll smash toward home. by Pvt. Albert Orbaan
Censored – An Attempt to convince at Least Some Hard-Bitten GIs that the Censor Really Ain’t a Heel by Cpl. Bill Alcine
County Fair ( Photo Story )
The Sergeant and His Adam’s Apple Start a Sensation in China by Sgt. Marion Hargrove
GI Radioman Pulls a Jap’s Leg, Or Maybe the Colonel Is Pulling Ours
Fancy Mail From a South Pacific APO – Envelopes adorned with Art by Frank L. Mack
Here Is One Place a Private Can Tell a Major Where to Get Off by Sgt. Gene Ward
The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker
Whatever became of the Old Fashioned Uppercut? by O/C Ray Duncan
Strictly GI
Out of the Spotlight – Isolated Posts
There Ain’t No WACs In Australia by Pvt. John McLeod
They Battle Mosquitoes With Signs in New Guinea by S/Sgt. Roy Burlingame
Solons Still Wage Bitter Draft Battle
News From Home – What goes on in your own home state
YANK Pin-up Girl : Alexis Smith
Nazis Don’t Like Goums – These pigtailed French Moroccan boys don’t particularly care for C rations because they would rather use their bayonets to open Germans and Italians. Tin cans make the blades dull. by Sgt. Ralph G. Martin
SWPA Mail Call
Giving in the SWPA
YANK Crossword Puzzle
WD Cancels SWPA Baseball Tour Because of Increased Pacific Activity
Sports: Navy Carries the Ball in the South Where Duke and Georgia Tech will be Powers by Sgt. Dan Polier
Cartoons