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May 31, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 42

Landing in Burma with Cochran’s Air Commandos

Cover: Comrades

Drama on a muddy trail leading from Hill 260 to Papitalai Point in the Admiralty Islands: an American soldier helps a GI who has been wounded in the left leg to get back to a medical station, for more of Cpl. Bill Alcine’s photographs of the successful Admiralty Islands’ campaign, see pages 12-13.

Articles Inside:

Burma Air Invasion

An eyewitness report from a YANK correspondent who landed 150 miles behind the Japanese lines with Col. Phil Cochran’s glider and transport flyers in one of the most daring airborne attacks of the war. By Sgt. Ed Cunningham

An Indian Boy In Iran

How Do You Like American Soldiers?

That’s what YANK’s photographer Sgt. Dil Ferris asked five French girls Noumea, Caledonia. Here are their humble opinions

Houses of Italy

They are dark and dingy but GIs at the Cassino front won’t forget how comfortable life was behind their thick walls when the German shells were thundering outside.

Alone in the Alaska Wilderness By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers

Home Towns In Wartime – New Orleans, La., By S/Sgt. Mel Schifter

Half the World is Isfahan (Iran)

Mail Call

Message Center

News From Home

The Sad Sack “Sucker” By Sgt. George Baker

What’s Your Problem?

What’s the Deal on the New Soldier-Vote Law?

News From Home

Yank Pin-up Girl: Ingrid Bergman

Books in Wartime (ASE numbers G-181 thru G-210)

The Poets Cornered

Sports

     Sports: Here’s how the Major League Races look as of this minute By Sgt. Dan Polier

     Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons