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YANK European Edition 18 August 1944 Volume 1, No. 21
Cover: In The Bag
Nazi Prisoner Reactions in Italy and France
German troops taken prisoner by the Fifth Army display a revealing assortment of “mugs” for YANK’S Sgt. George A. Aarons. Some smile, some scowl, some look dead-pan. At the upper right, note Russian civilians who were forced to work for Nazis.
Articles Inside:
Superman Speaks
“You’re a long way from Berlin,” a cocky German master sergeant captured on the Fifth army front boasts to a YANK interviewer. (Lt. W. J. Lehmann, Pvt. Fred Walk, Pvt. Richard B. Frowmm)
By Sgt. James P. O’Neill
Prisoners Swap Places
Turning the tables, American forces in France herd long lines of listless Germans behind barbed wire and turn loose Russians who were pressed into hard labor after being captured on the Eastern front.
The Germans In
(M/Sgt. Henry A. Samuel)
By Sgt. Walter Peters
The Russians Out
(Lt. Col. W. A. Strickland, Vladimir Lorontiusz, Edward Skorospenko)
By Sgt. Bill Davidson
Report From the Western Front
Four correspondents and an artist set down their impressions of the fighting in Normandy, where every field is a battleground. (Lt. Jack Shea)
By Sgt. Bill Davidson and artist Sgt. John Scott
Hilltop OP
By Cpl. John Preston
Sniper Fire
(1st Sgt. Joseph Gunssauls, Capt. Joseph Gray, Pvt. Eugene Zubrzycki, Sgt. Hyman Klotz, Lt. Col. Earl Lerette, Pfc. Joseph Maez)
By Sgt. Walter Peters
Moving Up
(Capt. Abraham Jacob, Pfc. Stanley Morgan, Pvt. Thomas Bourke, Sgt. Nathaniel Meadows, Pfc. Melvin Preston, Capt. Louis Sohn Jr.)
By Sgt. Saul Levitt
Louisville, Ky.
Home Towns In Wartime (William Henry
Walls, Sgt. John Walls, Alfred Langham, Sgt. Gilbert McIntosh, Sgt. Paul Wigginton, Sgt. Arthur Kinsella, Capt. William Harrison, Lt. Martin Neel Jr., Fireman 3c Lentil Watkins, Pvt. Herman Johnson, Metalsmith 1c George S. Sikking, 1st Lt. Giles Smith Jr.)
By Cpl. James B. Goble
Buzz-Bomb Blitz (V-1s)
By Sgt. Francis Burke
Arm’s Length From a Jap Battleship
Two Navy men bailed out of a torpedo plane so close to the enemy vessel that one could touch a cable trailing from its stern. (George H. (Pluto) Platz AMM1c, Ellis C. Babcock ARM2c, Lt. (jg) Benjamin C. Tate, J. F. Siwicki ARM2c, Lt. Warren R. Omarck, Robert E. Ranes and Lt. (jg) George P. Brown, Lt. Jim Alton, J. E. Prince)
By Sgt. Bill Reed
Mail Call
American Superiority
By Sgt. Phil Seligman
Saluting Nazi Prisoners
By Pfc. David Weisgerber
Wac’s Picture
(Cpl. W. E. Ryan, Pvt. Grace Glocke)
By Raymond A. Dodd, Sgt. N.E. Bussan and Pfc. Michael Moffo
Unloaded Gun
By Pfc. Jack MacTavish, Cpl. F. C. Nanartowich, Pfc. H. J. Wachter, T/4 Paul Johnson, Pvt. George Rainville, Pfc. Waine Meanor, Cpl. B.F. Waddell Jr., Cpl. W. Walzer, Pvt. George Palakiewic, Sgt. F. T. Adamo, Pfc. M. N. Gary and Sgt. John F. Urwiller, T/4 John T. Fischer, William A. Logan, Cpl. J. A. Centrella, Cpl. E. A. Good, Cpl. W. V. McNeal, 1/Sgt. John Sellers, T/Sgt. W. H. Dickson, Sgt. S. Clark
Queen of Tent 11
By S/Sgt. Raymond Swingholm, S/Sgt. Russel Malmberg, Sgt. Warth Wagers, Pvt. John Wilson and Pvt. Ted Lepon.
Somebody’s Baby
(Jane Nigh)
By S/Sgt. David Graves
Yank’s Page of Laughs
The Sad Sack
“Unburdened”
By Sgt. George Baker
LIFE Goes to a Party
By Sgt. Ray Duncan
The Use of Federal Ballots
Washington OP
(Lt. Gen. Ben Leak, Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, Lt. Gen. William S. Knudsen, Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, Maj. Gen. Delmar H. Dunton, Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe)
Letter from Home
(Pfc. Lois Konantz, Lou Costello, James F. Byrnes, Walter Lippman, Henry Wallace, Connie Mack, Lloydine Todd, Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, Olin D. Johnston, Hamilton Fish, Jr., Col. Bradley Dewey, Tamara Toumanova, Kenneth C. Robinson, Bette Jane Greer, Rudy Valle, Horace E. Dodge, Mickey Devine, Henry Ford, Booth Tarkington, Sgt. Charles (Commando) Kelly, Ted Rodgers, Steve Galamb, Mrs. Velva Lee Dickinson, Mrs. Ada Fisher, Professor Hermann Oberth)
Duration Heavyweights
(Jimmy Bivins, Tami Mauriello, Joe Baksi, Lee Oma, Lee Q. Murray and Lee Savold)
Sports: Unsolved Mystery of Babe Dahlgren
(Ellsworth (Babe) Dahlgren, Bobo Newsom, Billy Werber, Rube Walberg, Joe Cronin, Phil Cavaretta, Dolph Camilli)
By Sgt. Dan Polier
Sports Service Record
(Phil Rizzuto, Pfc. Jim Bivin, Cpl. Preacher Dorsett, Lt. Dave Schreiner, Keith Topping, Lt. Joe Sabasteanski, S/Sgt. Joe Louis, Cpl. Billy Conn, Lew Jenkins, Dick Wakefield, Carl Hubbell, CPO George McAfee, Pvt. Joe Gordon, Ed Head, Bulldog Turner, Bob Elliott, Jim Bagby)
Raid in the North Pacific
Fog forced the B-24s back from Matsuwa but the warships went on alone (Maj. Jack T. Loney, T/Sgt. William T. Clark, Sgt. Armel L. Meadows, S/Sgt. Roy H. Cline, S/Sgt. Isaac M. Frye, Maj. Thomas, O. Wood, Capt. Robert W. Carney, Albert H. Selover, coxswain, Calvin J. Brinar, coxswain, Frank Sinatra, S/Sgt. Horace J. Tiffany, T/Sgt. Charles E. Cramer, Lt. Stuart E. Williamson Jr., Capt. Roswell M. Parker, Fred C. Musiol S1c)
By Cpl. John Haverstick
Jeeps on the Farm?
(Dorothy V. Knibb, Lt. W. L. Hoffman)
By Sgt. Merle Miller
YANK Pin-Up Girl – Janet Blair