Description

YANK, The Army Weekly
Pan-American Edition
Date / Vol. / No.: May 25, 1945 — Vol. 2, No. 38
Price: 5¢
Publisher: Issued weekly by Branch Office, Information & Education Division, War Department, 205 East 42d Street, New York 17, N.Y.
Managing Editor: Sgt. Joe McCarthy
Pages scanned: 24 pages. Instant PDF download.

Cover

A soldier drinks from a decorated German beer stein, helmet still on. Cover line: “The 1st Division — From Fort Devens to Germany, Pages 2, 3, 4 & 5.” The cover subject is identified inside as Pfc. Grant Crawford of Moline, Ill., an engineer with the 26th Infantry Division, photographed after drinking beer from a German stein in Germany.

Major Articles

The Red One
by Sgt. Merle Miller — Traces the 1st Infantry Division’s three-year journey from Fort Devens, Mass., through North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, and Belgium into Germany.

Battle of Mandalay
by Sgt. Walter Peters — British and Indian troops of the 19th Division fight a costly, cave-by-cave battle to take Mandalay Hill and Fort Dufferin from the Japanese.

Sergeant in Paris
by Sgt. DeWitt Gilpin — S/Sgt. Junior J. Spurrier, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, finds the French more impressed by his Croix de Guerre than his own country’s highest award.

Veteran’s Business Loan
by Sgt. Barrett McGurn — A discharged Navy torpedoman becomes one of the first veterans to secure a GI Bill business loan, opening a wholesale meat route in Virginia.

Rockets in Italy
by Cpl. George Barrett — The Fifth Army’s “Buck Rogers Platoon” operates a 4.5-inch multiple-rocket launcher mounted on a tank chassis against German positions.

Ernie Pyle
by Evans Wylie SP1c (PR), USCGR — A tribute to the famed war correspondent, killed by a Japanese machine gun on Ie Shima while covering the Okinawa campaign.

Mop-Up on Malinta
photos by Sgt. Arthur Weithas — The 503d Parachute Infantry and 34th Infantry clear Japanese holdouts from the caves and tunnels of Malinta Hill on Corregidor.

Battlewagon off Iwo
sketches and notes by Sgt. Jack Ruge, YANK Staff Artist — Life aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the bombardment and landings at Iwo Jima.

News From Home

Staff roundup of the week’s home-front news, dominated by the War Department’s demobilization and redeployment announcement following Germany’s collapse.

Crisler Talks About Conditioning Problems Peculiar to the Tropics
by Cpl. Richard W. Douglass — Michigan football coach Fritz Crisler discusses training athletes in tropical heat while touring Panama for Special Services.

Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
by Pfc. Debs Myers — A profile of the U.S. Secretary of State as he heads the American delegation to the San Francisco security conference.

Cockfight in the Philippines
photos by Sgt. Art Weithas — GIs, sailors, and Filipinos bet on a match between roosters owned by a soldier and a Navy chief at San Jose, Mindoro.

Art & Illustration

“Battlewagon off Iwo” features original sketches by Sgt. Jack Ruge, YANK staff artist.
The “Sad Sack” comic strip is by Sgt. George Baker.

Pin-Up
This issue’s YANK Pin-up Girl is Lina Romay.

Soldier Photo
The “Rockets in Italy” article pictures gun crewmen of the Buck Rogers Platoon, including T-5 Donald Paczuzzo of Santa Cruz, Calif., loading and firing the rocket launcher near the front.