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Vol. 2 No. 25 … Break … Painting of the Italian Campaign by 5th Army Artists ……….. Three weary infantrymen take a break on a muddy hillside in Okinawa before going on to take a Jap strong point. Other pictures from Okinawa by YANK photographer Mason Pawlak, CPhoM are on pages 12 and 13.
Articles in this Issue:
That Pacific War — This chapter in the YANK series of articles for ETO veterans who are sweating the Jap war brings up the weather and the combat methods, which are not much different, and discusses the fancy Far Eastern diseases that don’t grow in Brooklyn / By Sgt. Barrett McGurn
We Came From Brazil — Before going home a Brazilian precinha—GI for short—gives YANK readers his impressions of the mountain war in Italy. (Jose Curti) / By Sgt. Waldo Caparica
Berlin Today — Occupied Berlin is the German problem in miniature. There are three armies of occupation, there are night clubs; there is hunger; and the winter will be tough. (Pvt. Luba Rosenova, Kurt Leisser, Dr Arthur Werner, Col. Frank Howley, Maj. Feodorovitch Platonov, Gert Pagel, Pierre Naida, Johanna Mueller, Erne Stock and Hermann Stoesser) / By Sgt. Merle Miller
Unsung Hero — Pvt. Moravick doesn’t ask much from the Army—just recognition of his talents and a pass now and then, but does the Army ever come across? No. / By Sgt. Marion Hargrove
The war in Italy as seen by soldier-artists (Capt. Rudolph Charles Von Ripper, T/Sgt. Savo Radulovic, T/4 Harry A. Davis Jr., T/3 Frank Duncan Jr., T/3 Ludwig Mactarian, Capt. Edward A. Reep and M/Sgt. Mitchell Siporin)
The Sad Sack “Simple Arithmetic” / By Sgt. George Baker
War Poets
All Afternoon The Autumn Light / By Sgt. Samuel French Morse
On Ravel’s Concerto For The Left Hand / By Sgt. James Steel Smith
The Battle Of Panama / By Sgt. Lysander Kemp
On The Death Of A Friend In The War / By Sgt. David Perkins
Letter To Joe / By S/Sgt. Troy Garrison
In Memory Of A President / By Sgt. John Hay
Warm Legs / By Sgt. Len Zinberg
Mail Call
Go Easy With Jerries / By Pfc. William R. Zion
Illegitimate Children / By Pvt. William Smith
Enemy Diplomats / Pfc. Herbert M. Breidenbach
Flushing The Jap / S/Sgt. Harmon L. Field
Nisei / By T/5 Earl C. Moore and Pvt. Jim Brindisi
…. And Negroes / By 1st Lt. Wade H. McCree Jr.
SS Girls / By Lt. V. Zeigner
Me Smoke, Joe?
Divorce Reform / By D. L. Gilkei GM1c
Bonus Suggestion / By S/Sgt. Arthur W. McCanless
Cleaning German Castles / By Pfc. Don Michela
Achtung, Minen!
Double Take / By Sgt. E. P. Haglund
Tough War / By Pfc. George Brailsford, USMC
War Criminals / By S/Sgt. A. E. Harris
They Thought He Was A Kraut – It took Cpl. Gilbert J. Beamesderfer 31 days to talk his way out of a U.S. Army PW camp and back to his status as just another Yank GI. / By Sgt. Walter Bernstein
The Monk (Lt. Col. Charles Robert “Monk” Meyer) / By Sgt. John McLeod
YANK Cartoons
YANK Pin-up Girl – Andrea King