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Vol. 2 No. 15 ……. Cover: Navy Roll. ……. Mercy Ship Beats the Jap Trap at Manila ……. Articles Inside:

War in the West – Three stories from the Allied front against the Germans, where units were cleaning out enemy pockets behind the lines as forward columns raced through Belgium…Rolling on Toward Liege. By Cpl. John Preston…With the Canadians in France. By Pvt. Ben Frazier…How Brassiere Boys Held Brest. By Tom Bernard Sp(X)1c

Last Ship Out of Manila – The aging USS Mactan dumped its cargo and became a mercy ship on New Year’s Day 1942. By Sgt. Chuck Rathe

Pyle Goes Home By Sgt. Mack Morriss

Adriatic Front – On the Eighth Army’s right flank, Polish and Free Italian troops are pushing back the Nazis with a determination born of revenge. By Sgt. Harry Sions

Nipponese Nightmare – The Army’s P-61 Black Widows got their baptism of fire in the Southwest Pacific, but it was the Jap bombers who got burned. By Cpl. Donn H. Munson

The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker

Strictly GI

YANK’s New Guinea by artist Sgt. Charles D. Pearson

News From Home

Circus in Wartime By Sgt. Justus Schlotzhauer

Mail Call

Message Center

The Soldier Speaks: Who should be discharged first after the war?

YANK Pin-up Girl : Lynn Bari

Poets Cornered

What’s Your Problem?

Golf’s Gold Rush

Sports: Close-Up of Nelson, World’s Best Golfer by Sgt. Dan Polier

Cartoons