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April 12, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 35

Report from Russia

Cover : “Light, Tovarich?”

T/4 Robert N. Martin, head checker at a railroad yard, lights a cigarette for Pvt. Gregor Igorovitch Meronenko, a Russian guard on a train going north. If, three years ago you had told Robert, who hails from Gasden, Ala. and Gregor, who used to farm in a small village in the Ukraine, that one day they would meet in a railroad yard in Persia – they both would have called you screwy. But war does screwy things.

Articles Inside:

Report from Russia

After a tour of the Russian Front the old man reports to the men of his command on what the stuff they are shipping to Joe is doing on the business end of the line. By Sgt. Al Hine

First Yanks On Jap Soil By Sgt. Merle Miller

These reconnaissance cavalrymen of the 7th Division will go down in the history books as the soldiers who planted the first American flag on Nipponese territory in this war. Here’s how it happened in four days of furious fighting in the Marshalls.

Short Stories From Italy By Sgt. Burgess H. Scott

The Mounties Get Unhorsed By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers

What’s The Deal On Pensions For Ex-Servicemen? By Sgt. H. N. Oliphant

The Veterans Administration was badly snafued last fall when it didn’t have enough personnel or priorities to handle the pensions and job problems of the first batch of discharged GIs. But here’s how it works now under a new and more efficient organization set-up.

Reich Offers Prizes For Better Weapons

To ease the burdens of the master race, YANK offers these modest suggestions from our own Sgt. Ralph Stein, who should of went to OCS. Der Fuehrer can keep his old money; Sgt. Stein just likes to see his pictures in print.

Center-fold Map Pacific Ocean & Bay of Bengal

Mail Call

     Soldier Voters By Lt. Harold Norris, Pvt. Harold Kramer, Sgt. George Kauffman, Sgt. Frank Bain, T-4 Charles Cohen, Pfc. Ezra Herman, Bernard Weinstein S1c, S/Sgt. C. R. Strickland, S/Sgt. Walter J. Schloss, Cpl. W. Glanzbergh, Sgt. L. A. Doukas

     The Short Snorters Again

     Deep In The Heart

     Bonita’s Date By Thomas Hartnett, Bonita Granville, Pfc. James I. Scott, Pvt. Robert C. Timrick

Message Center

News From Home

Triangle Murder in the Nation’s Capital

The Sad Sack “First Come – First Served” By Sgt. George Baker

When we get the new T.O. …. ( Fiction )

Strictly GI

     Negro Combat Units

     Bronze Star Medal

     Super Quilt

     Carbine Grenade Launcher

     Income-Tax Notes

     Veterans, Second World War

Washington O.P.

News From Home

What goes on in your own home state

Yank Pin-up Girl: Betty Bryant

When we get the new T.O. …. (Fiction) By Sgt. Ray Duncan

Books In Wartime (ASE numbers E-121 thru E-150)

Navy Notes

4-Fs Give Dodgers 1-A Pennant Chance

Sports French Sailor Looks Like Future Champ to Sharkey By Cpl. Tom Shehan

Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons