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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