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May 3, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 38

How Fast Can You Recognize an Enemy Plane? Pictures of Allied and Axis Aircraft

Cover: Truck Doctor

As a medic listens to your chest for murmurs, an Ordnance electrician checks the voltage of a newly-overhauled truck on the sensitive indicator of his voltometer. The Ordnance GI in this case is T/4 Aubrey Heers from an MTS post in northern Iran. The truck is one of the familiar OD jallopies that carry vital war cargo north from the gulf for the Red Army.“I Think It’s One of Ours”

Articles Inside:

Visit to Cassino By Sgt. Walter Bernstein

Report on a journey to the front lines around the cork in the Nazi bottleneck blocking our advance to Rome, just a few days before Allied planes smashed that mountain town to pieces with the greatest single concentration of aerial destruction in the history of warfare.

“I Think It’s One of Ours” By Sgt. Mack Morriss

One of the modern soldier’s toughest problems — trying to decide whether he should shoot at a strange plane.

This B-24 Over Britain Refused to Land So They Had to Shoot Her Down

A Sergeant Coaches A King By Sgt. Karl Sprinkle

Beauty Treatment For Tired Trucks By Sgt. Al Hine

Variety Show

Mail Call

Message Center

News From Home

Names in the News

Odds & Ends Dept.

How Can We Avoid a Post-War Depression?

The Sad Sack “Tropics” By Sgt. George Baker

What’s Your Problem?

     Venereal Disease By Pvt. Walter R.

     Dog Tags By Cpl. Herbert Harmer

     OCS Appointments By S/Sgt. James C. Wood, S/Sgt. Jamie V. Forbes Jr.

     Paratroop Pay By Sgt. Ace R. Callender

     Ribbons By Cpl. Richard Symes, Pfc. Harold White

Strictly GI

Washington O.P.

News From Home

What goes on in your own home state

Yank Pin-up Girl: Gloria Anderson

Navy Notes

Books in Wartime (ASE numbers F-151 thru F-180)

Majors Warm Up In Cold North

Sports: Uncle Mike Overcomes A Desperate Situation By Sgt. Dan Polier

Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons