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May 10, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 39

1st Cavalry Division’s Invasion of the Admiralties

Cover: At the Anzio front in Italy, Pvt. Bob Ballard of Huntington, West Virginia, moves his field glasses over the horizon searching for enemy air or ground movement. His perch is the turret of a Sherman tank, camouflaged into the side of a haystack, and his companion is a .50-caliber machine gun.

Articles Inside:

Landing On Los Negros By Cpl. Bill Alcine

In the Admiralties, troopers of the 1st Cavalry Division showed that they could fight on foot in the jungle as well as our toughest infantrymen.

Nightmare Job In Italy By Cpl. Burtt Evans

Every 50 seconds a plane takes off or lands at the base where Vance Luten is operations traffic cop.

His Barracks Bag May Have Seen Action But This Young Infantryman Didn’t By Sgt. Robert Ryan

Manpower Shortage By Sgt. Charles Pearson

Patchport to Favor By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers

Finder No Keeper By Cpl. Frank I. Trezise

Navy Needlecraft By Pvt. Jud Cook

Do Stripes Make a Zebra?

And Speaking of Zebras M/Sgt. Diggory Venn

Escape From A Jap Ambush By Sgt. Barrett McGurn

Surprised by the enemy deep in the Bougainville jungle, this American patrol sent back three scouts on a two-hour trip to get reinforcements. It took them two days.

“Good Morning Dear Sergeant,” Children Sing By Cpl. James P O Neill

Pre-Invasion Bombs

As the Allied air preparation for the invasion of Europe reaches its climax every hour brings new records for the bombing of German industrial centers and the destruction of German planes.

Women Of The Yugoslav Underground By Sgt. Walter Bernstein

Natives in GI Camp By Sgt. Al Hine

Mail Call

Message Center

News From Home

     Names in the News

     Odds & Ends Dept.

Joan Packs Pistol at the Strangest Times

GI Proverbs from King Solomon

The Sad Sack “Excess Baggage” By Sgt. George Baker

How To Vote In 11 States Holding Primaries In June And July

News From Home

What goes on in your own home state

Yank Pin-up Girl : Leslie Brooks

The Poets Cornered

     An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by W. B. Yeats

     The Beautiful Ruins By S/Sgt. Charles E. Butler

     Sonnet For Charlotte By Pfc. Dudley M. Shoemaker

     In Memoriam By Pvt. John E. Brown

     It’s Not The Heat By Sgt. Irving Caress

     Night Sky By T-3 Leslie A Goldman

Navy Notes By Robert I. Schwartz Y2c

Sports Round-Up

Sports: Maybe Dodds Sold Those Extra Two Million Bibles By Sgt. Dan Polier

Sports Service Record

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