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Vol. 1 No. 19
Una Merkel Short-Snorter – As full of life on a New Guinea airdrome as she is on the screen, film comedienne Una Merkel is all wrapped up in her job of getting signatures on a long roll of Short-Snorter bills. When Una, Phyllis Brooks, Gary Cooper and Andy Arcari landed in New Guinea, they were mobbed by GIs, nurses and Red Cross girls all wanting’ autographs. Una turned the tables by demanding signatures on her bills in exchange. In the mix-up she even got Cooper’s. It’s on Page 15. …….. Salvaging a B-24 in the Never-Never
Articles Inside: …
Salvage Operations in the Never-Never (B-24 Shady Lady) / By YANK artist Sgt. Charles Pearson
“Rugged Assignment” – This U.S. Signal Photo Man Trekked Overland to the Markham Valley in Time to Get a Worm’s-Eye View of Yank Paratroopers Coming Down in Their First Action in the Southwest Pacific. (Pfc. Edward A. Smiley) / By Sgt. Ozzie St. George
A Californian in Neutral Arabia Keeps Oil Flowing to Feed Allied Tanks. (George Mackey) / By Pvt. Irwin Shaw
Don’t Look Now, Chum Isn’t That a Dog in Back of You? / By Sgt. Bob Dodson
This Iran Sergeant Chases Dirt From Bazar and Saves Kid from Death (T/4 “Caliph” Adams, Lt. Adam H. Harper, 1st/Sgt. Eric S. Jacobson) / By Sgt. Bill Martley
Yank Soldier in Puerto Rico First to View Tribal ‘Blood Dance’ (S/Sgt. Robert Berman)
Censor’s Gift of a Buck Starts Gold Rush for Greenland GI’s Kids (Pvt. Edward N. Kleitz) / By Sgt. Ed O’Meara
22 Italians Bring 433 Germans From Corfu Into Italy as Prisoners
Schweinfurt Raid – A YANK reporter’s eyewitness story of the Eighth Air Force’s fiercest battle of the war, the big raid on the German ball-bearing plant in which 60 Flying Fortresses and 99 Luftwaffe planes were shot down. (Capt. Ivan Klohe, Sgt. Charlie Hill, Sgt. Edward Cavanaugh, Lt. Howard J. Zorn, Lt. Richard J. Roth, Lt. Herbert Heuser, Sgt. Roy Blansit / By Sgt. Walter Peters
How About Burma? – United Nations forces under Lord Mountbatten are almost ready to start a drive into the country where they took a beating from the Japs early last year.
Square-Cut Diamond – The grand old man of the U. S, Marine Corps, who joined the Leathernecks when they were founded by the Continental Congress in 1775, still nurses his beloved 81-mm mortars through the Pacific war. (Master Gunnery Sergeant Leland Diamond) / By Allen Churchill Y3c
The Sad Sack “Mail” / by Sgt. George Baker
What’s Your Problem?
GI Minors Protected / By John Pilbeam S1c
Dependent Husband / 1/Sgt. Mary Zitner
Common-Law Wives
OBD Checks to China / By Sgt. David F. Wong
Dishonorable Discharge / By Pfc. Mark Levi
Poll Tax for GIs? / Pvt. Andrew Johnson
Tax Refund / Pfc. Walter F. Galos
Shortstopping is Sabotage
Strictly GI
Ole King Cole
Call It Clammy Chowder
Pots of Gold
Can’t Have Your Cake and . . . .
Climbing the Boot – Camera Report on the Yanks and British Fighting Their Way Through Italy
Words Across the Sea
Mail Call
Message Center
Negro Soldier Feathers His Nest On 60 Bucks a Month
Autograph Hounds Had Field Day When Stars Fell on Guinea / By Cpl. Ralph L. Boyce
It Takes a Woman to Find What a Snow Story Really Is / By Pvt. John McLeod
The YANK Sweetheart Contest is On!
YANK Pin-up Girl: Hedy Lamarr
Evening Report
The Poets Cornered
The Lachrymose Liver of Big-Hearted Bill / By J. Elliott Park
Air Raid / By Pvt. Frank (Shorty) Welch
GI Aftermath / By T/5 Morris Belotz
My Reverie / By T/Sgt. Jean Coulter
On The Way / By Cpl. George Kauffman
Address Unknown / By Sgt. John Ready
News From Home – What Goes On In Your Own Home State
Southern Cross Sportsmen
Pigskin Peeks
Pigskin Peeks
Sports Service Record
YANK Cartoons