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YANK European Edition 8 May 1944 Volume 1, No. 7
Cover: New Thunderbolt … “Battle Clinic” Shows How to Fight in Italy
The size and striking power of the new P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber is well shown in this photograph by Sgt. George Aarons. This seven-and-a-half ton airplane is raising hell with enemy rail communications in Northern Italy and is proving as effective at low altitudes as at great heights.
Articles Inside:
“Old Soldiers Come Back”
Lessons learned in battle can pay big dividends, “shop talk” of line sergeants shows.
(T/Sgt. Harry Moore, S/Sgt. Manuel S. “Ugly” Gonzales, T/Sgt. Haliburton, T/Sgt. James Arnold, T/Sgt. Ed Taylor and T/Sgt. Bill Weber)
By Sgt. Byron Burtt Evans
GI Drivers Worse Than Women, 5th Army Reveals
Patchport to Favor
By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers
Manpower Shortage
(Cpl. Charles R. Wilburn)
By Sgt. Charles Pearson
Finder No Keeper
(Pvt. Brownie Waldroup)
By Cpl. Frank I. Trezise
Sad Sack Shakes a Limp Paw With Old Joe
(S/Sgt. George Baker and Sgt. Bill Mauldin)
Slow Starter
Lt. Gerry Kisters, the first soldier in the war to receive both the DSC and Medal of Honor, sweated out 22 months in this Army before he made corporal. (Lt. Orsell C. Price Jr.)
By Sgt. Mack Morriss
Big Rodeo and Bar-B-Q (Marines in Central Pacific)
(Maj. Gen, Julian C. Smith)
Back to Burma
Stilwell’s army has returned to the jungles where the Japs gave him a “hell of a beating” two years ago.
(S/Sgt. Paul Gish, Lt. Col. J. R. Wilson, Capt. William Cummings, T/Sgt. Joseph Stahl, S/Sgt. Martin C. Thrailkill, Cpl. Kenneth Miller, Pfc. Edgar Buck, Pfc. Howard Van Ardsdale, Capt. Peter K. Lutken)
By Sgt. Ed Cunningham
20 Minutes from Rabaul
The husky, well-fed Jap marines at Green Island, important stop on the way to Tokyo, folded up when an Infantry force of New Zealanders landed on their beaches, hungry for some knockdown and drag-out war.
(Lance Bombardier Charles Grut, Sergeant Major Jack Cumming, Ernest E. (Butch) Allan S1c, Lance Cpl. Ashley Petty, Pvt. Frank Black, Pvt. Neil Palmer, Lance Bombardier Cyril Colbert, Pvt. Leonard
T. Botting)
By Sgt. Barrett McGurn
Pillbox on the Run (German Portable Pillbox)
Central Europe & the Mediterranean Centerfold Map
Somewhere in Italy
Big Bill Johnstone, Given Up For Dead, Comes Back for More
(Private First Class William J. Johnstone)
By Pfc Melvin Diamond
Tough Old Sergeant Takes His Hat Off to Paddlefeet
By Cpl. Fred Sheehan
Donkey Express
(Sgt. George Teague, Sgt. George Boosalis)
Nurse Heroine
(Lt. Christine Dahl, Maj. Gen. Twining)
Anzio Yanks Not Fooled Long by Foxy Nazi Tricks
(Lt. H. J. Limprecht)
Pretty Patches
(Cpl. Dorothy Smith, Pvt. Margaret Munro, and Cpl. Sally Hillman)
This Company Clerk Does His Red-Lining Under Fire
(Wayne Benson)
By Pvt. Joseph E. Palmer
When Three Bombs Meet Up With This PFC, He Soys -Am I Hurt?.
(Pfc. William J. Godwin)
Rock Terraces and Towel Racks Make “The Foxhole Beautiful”
(Pvt. Vinson Harrison, Pfc. Gaspard La Coste, Pfc. Arlie McCombs)
Wounded in Enemy Action, They Get No Purple Hearts
(Edwin Hennessey Jr. and Russell M. Tripp)
By Pvt. Joseph E. Palmer
Lemon Flapjacks
(Sgt. Orbie G. Harris)
Escape From A Jap Ambush
Surprised by the enemy deep in the Bougainville jungle, this American patrol sent back three scouts on a two-hour trip to get reinforcements, it took them two days. (Sgt, Otis K. Hawkins, Pfc. Frank Polasek and Pfc. Michael Guerra, Sgt. Truman D. Souden, Pvt. George A. Billen, Cpl. George J. (Red) Conaway, Pfc. Ted Prozek, Peltiah W. Leete, Pfc. Elbert H. (Doc) Watson, S/Sgt. Arthur W. Rickey, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler and 2d Lt. Carl Koppler)
“Good Morning, Dear Sergeant,” Children Sing
(T-4 Wallace Ruslerholtz)
By Cpl. James P. O’Neill
The Sad Sack
“Good Neighbors“
By George Baker
What’s Your Problem?
Running For Public Office By S/Sgt. F. A. Paris
Wives Overseas By Pfc. Norman Jordan
Softball By Cpl. John T. Tapley
Disability Retirement By M/Sgt. George Duryea
Fourragere By Pvt. Sylvester Williams
Partial Pay
Jap Plan For Six Invasions Of The American Mainland
YANK Crossword Puzzle
Tee-Total
Golf Log
Letter Division
Navy Notes
By Robert I. Schwartz Y2c
Unauthorized Ribbons
New Jap Uniform
British Flat-Tops
Dredgings
Coronados
Letter from the States
(John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, and Mrs. Curtin, and Teodora Picado, President-elect of Costa Rica, and Senora Picado, Arthur Krock, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher, Rev. Charles Coughlin, Henry Ford and Charles A. Lindbergh, Matt Shelvey)
Sports Round-Up
(Pvt. John Rotate, Clayton Johnson, Vernon Kennedy, Coach Joe Lapchik,
Sports: Take to the Hills, Men! Giants. Dodgers Feuding
By Dan Polier
Sports Service Record
(CPO Roy H. Moore, M/Sgt. Hugh Mulcahy, Sgt. Dutch Harrison, Pfc. Pat (Hit ‘Em) Harder, S/Sgt. Joe Louis, Capt. Ollie Cordill, Capt. Jim Kisselburgh, Lt. Joe Burk, Sgt. Tommy Loughran, Pfc. Johnny (Presto) Podesto, Lon Worneke, Jim Bagby, Harry Clark, Tommy Holmes, Teddy Yarosz, Phil Weintraub, Pvt. Bob Falkenburg)
YANK Pin-up Girl: Martha O’Driscoll