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YANK European Edition     13 October 1944     Volume 1, No. 28

Cover: Glasses of cognac are lifted in toast to the liberation of Paris as M. Louis Lehaut, citizen of Cherbourg and Pvt. John Simms, citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa., get together in the Normandy port.
Whenever the American armies stopped long enough to say hello, they were royally entertained by the French.

Articles Inside:

Plan for Demobilization
Announcing that some GIs will be released after Germany falls, the Army says first discharges will go to fathers and men with the longest service and the most combat duty. (Col. Francis V. Keesling Jr.)
By Pfc. Ira H. Freeman

The Point System
AAF, ASF, AGF Share Separations
Selecting Surplus Men
The Problem of Shipping
Separation Centers
Officers and Wacs
Education, Recreation, Sports

Text of Army’s Demobilization Statement

Getting Out of the Army
Here is what you will go through in a separation center near your home during the last two days of your career in the U. S. Army.

Station On Wheels (Radio)
(Pvt. Johnny Rapp, Sgt. Dick Wesson, Sgt. Bill Griskey, Pvt. Charles Range, Sgt. Earl Cady, Sgt. Walter Kirk, Sgt. Leroy Hathon, Sgt. George Piros, Lt. Vern Carstenson)
By Sgt. James P. O’Neill

Gothic Front
The Papers Talked Of Nazi Routs, But The Battle Here Was Grim And Bloody (Major R. J. Whealand, Captain Little, Dryburg)
By J. Denton Scott

Roman Justice
The Murder-Treason Trial of Pietro Caruso, Fascist Police Chief (Roberto Occhetto, Donatto Carreta, President Judge Lorenzo Marino)
By Sgt. Harry Sions

Post War Flying
Aircraft manufacturers are deep in big plans but the plane won’t replace the family automobile for quite a few years after the war. (William B. Stout, Dr. Harry Ganders, W. T. Piper, William A. M. Burden, Joseph T. Geuting, Glenn L. Martin, Harry Woodhead, W. A. Patterson)
By Sgt. Merle Miller

The Sad Sack
“Dream”
Sgt. George Baker

What’s Your Problem?
     Allotment Muddle
     Transfer to the Rangers By Pvt. Herman Hollander
     Longevity Pay By Pvt. Phil Hortenell
     GIs Over 25 By Sgt. Murray Ruhland
     Navy Ratings By J. C. Relihan Jr. PhM2c

YANK Cartoons

Mail Call
     American Superiority (Capt. Edward F. G. Lowenbein) By S/Sgt. William J. Pope
     Nurses and GIs By 2nd Lt. Nurse Elizabeth Kennedy
     Merchant Seamen By Capt. John T. Lynk, S/Sgt. Mildred O. Karpalek, Cpl. Metro Yedniak, Seaman Harry Landau
     ‘Be Decent’
     Back Home
     Rangers By Capt. James J. Lavin, T-5 Art Hamilton, Pvt. John R. Caddy, S/Sgt. C. J. Calkins, Pfc. M. J. Firland
     Air Force Gravy By T/Sgt. Robert P. Hager, T/Sgt. Kenneth L. Hay, S/Sgt. C. P. Dancho, S/Sgt. M. C. Knauf, S/Sgt. Thomas W. Edwards, S/Sgt. Chester R. Rea, S/Sgt. Leo G. Shelton, S/Sgt. Richard L. McHale, Cpl. Thornwell F. Stebbins, Cpl. Charles C. Wickett and Pvt. John R. Ware
     Intentions Honorable
Bonus (T-3 Roger H. Garrison) By Pvt. A. Carson
     Dextrose Tablets By Pfc. Harry Moore

News From Home (James Hines, James Hines Jr., Venus Ramey, Jean Bartie, Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt, Jack Butler, Major George Fielding Eliot, John O’Connell, Thomas E. Dewey, Marquis W. Childs, Mrs. Angela Alvarez, Mrs. Phyllis Newmark, Capt. Alfonza Davis, Mr. and Mrs. John Davis)
     Odds & Ends Dept. (Miss Muriel Bachant, Cpl. Herbert R. Bachant,
     Names In The News (Doris Duke Cromwell, James H. R. Cromwell, Donald M. Nelson, Jefferson Caffrey, Mrs. Raissa Berkman Browder, Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.)

Switzerland Of the Pacific
Plenty of American soldiers and marines have “fought the battle of Queens Street,” resting up in New Zealand after combat. (T-4 Joe Reilly Jr., Cpl. Jack String, T-4 Lucien B. Tew
By Sgt. Barrett McGurn and artist Robert Greenhalgh

What goes on in the Entertainment World back home
Invasion of Mae West’s Dressing Room (Bob Schwartz Y2c)
By Sgt. Al Hine
     Band Beat (Louis Prima, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Hal McIntyre)
     Hollywood (Carmen Miranda, Spencer Tracy, Bruce Cabot, Bob Capa, Frankie Filan, Michael O’Shea, Sonja Henie, William Pine and William Thomas)

Sports:  Take Your Pick: Ohio State, Purdue, Michigan or Irish
(Col. Alvin Nugent McMillin, John Tavener, Mr. Cecil Isbell, Boris Dimancheff, Frank Bauman, Mr. Ray Eliot, Buddy Young, Don Greenwood, Jerry Cies, Mr. Carroll Widdoes, Leslie Horvath, Tom Keane, Dick Flanagan, Bob Brugge, Ollie Cline, Jack Dugger, Bill Willis, Russ Thomas, Bill Hackett, Gordon Appleby, Dr. George Hauser, Red Williams, Tom Cates, Gene Delaney, Bob Reinhardt, Bill Aidworth, Bob Lossie, Mr. Lynn Waldorf, William Brophy, William Roper, Mr. Fritz Crisler, Capt. Bob Wiese, Joe Ponsetto, Bob Nussbaumer, Ralph Chubb, Warren Bentz, Clem Bauman, Bill Renner, Harold Watts, Dick Rifenberg, Mr. Ed McKeever, Lt. Frank Leahy, George Sullivan, Johnny Lujack, Joe Gasparella, Pat Filley, Bob Kelly)
By Sgt. Dan Power

Sports Service Record
(Sgt. Frank Parker, Georges Carpentier, Max Schmeling, Billy Talbert, Gen. Hoyle, Lt. Don McNeill, S/Sgt. Max Baer, Pvt. Roy Weatherly, Barney McCosky Sp(A)1c, CPO Hugh Casey, Lt. Bill Nowling, F/O Phil Marchildon, Capt. Hank Greenberg, Lt. Benny Leonard, Ike Williams, Mickey Owen, Bobby Doerr, Jesse Flores)

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