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March 1, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 29

A Day With the Supply Men on the Italian Front

Cover : Fatima Sleeps Here

Articles Inside:

Supplies Are Brought Up in Italy on the GI’s Back By Sgt. Burgess Scott

When the Infantry’s ammunition and food reach the last stage of their tortuous journey to the front, even the mules quit. The private finishes the job alone.

Bombardment of Buka

When a U.S. cruiser task force bombed Jap positions on Buka in the northern Solomons, YANK’s photographer Sgt. Dillon Ferris went along to record the action aboard one of the ships.

Infantrymen Who Fought in Makin Battle Summarize the Lessons they Learned By Sgt. Fred Baxter

Sleeping in the General’s Car, Panama GI Finds, Has Drawback By Sgt. George Hill

Smooth-Talking American Soldier Buys Dinner for a Couple of Nazis By Sgt. Ralph G. Martin

Here’s Useful Tip About Jeeps Discovered By a Yank in Sardinia By Sgt Burtt Evans

Two Pigeon Fanciers in Iran Plan To Raise Some Fancy Pigeons By Sgt. Al Hine

The Belgian Commandos Want to Go Home By Sgt. Paul W. Green

These tough specialists in hand-to-hand fighting are training for the big day when they will go back again to their country after three years of exile.

Souvenir Hunting By Sgt. Ralph Stein

The maniacs who used to drive the rest of the family crazy filling the closets with boxes of pine combs from Maine and cowboy hats from Yellowstone Park are still doing the same thing overseas.

“Hump Happy” By Sgt. Ed Cunningham

This GI Musical Comedy Covers The India Circuit By Air.

News From Home

Double Date Deals Death in Lovers’ Lane

The Sad Sack “Trigger Happy” By Sgt. George Baker

What’s Your Problem?

     Aviation Cadets By Pvt. Samuel Gross

     Orderlies By Cpl. John Munro, Pvt. John Acocella

     Writing to Congressmen By Cpl. George French

     Dependency Benefits By —Pvt. Danny Ecker

Strictly GI

     Army Casualties

     Army Insignia

     Flying Fatalities

     Nurses Get ODs

Bulletin Board

Washington O. P.

News From Home – What goes on in your own home state

Yank Pin-up Girl: Ann Savage

Navy Notes

The Poets Cornered

     For You At Valentine’s By Sgt. Loton Rogers Pitts

     The Foxhole By Pfc. Arthur Vaupel

     A T-5’s Travail By T-5 Arthur M. Ross

Basketball is such a sissy game, you know.

Sports: Ex-Prisoner Tells of Sports In Jap Concentration Camp

Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons