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June 28, 1944     Vol. 1  No. 46

The Sinking of the Baby Flat-top Liscome Bay

Cover: Signal Corps in Newfoundland

Newfoundland, T/5 Tom Meyers of Salamanca, N. Y., holds Punkin, mascot of his Signal Corps crew. Those are climbing irons Meyers is carrying on his shoulder. For story and pictures of the outfit’s three-week battle against the elements to lug heavy supplies to the top of a mountain, see pages 2, 3 and 4.

War Against Weather

Newfoundland Signal Corps Crew Fights a Battle as Tough as Many Combat Assignments.

The Soldier Speaks : “Should the U.S. get mixed up with the rest of the world after the war?”

     Isolationist Way Failed By Sgt. James Keeley

     A Hard-Headed America By Sgt. Newton H. Fulbright

     “Cooperation Will Win” By Sgt. Dave Golding

     “A Nationalist U.S.” Pfc. Harold Wagoner

Yanks in Italy – How the Engineers Destroyed a Nazi OP

     Bombs Awry By Sgt. Burtt Evans

     Working Up an Appetite Sgt. George Aarons

     Latest QM Fashions By Cpl. Tom Shehan

     Private Performance By Pfc. Len Zinberg

The Sinking of the Liscome Bay By By Robert L. Schwartz Y2c

The story of 23 terrible minutes on a baby flat-top after it was torn to pieces by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine and before it sank with the second largest Navy casualty list of this war.

Even a Railroad Couldn’t Goose This Moose By Sgt. Georg N. Meyers

Going Home ( From SWPA )

Yes, it’s true, they’re going home, as you can plainly see from the happy expressions on the faces of these men at a Southwest Pacific casual camp. They’re from the last group of GIs returned to the States in the SWPA March quota of the Army Rotation of Personnel Plan. Cpl. Roger Wrenn, YANK photographer, caught them the day before they sailed.

APO 797 (Andimeshk, Iran)

Mail Call

Message Center

News From Home

     Names in the News

     Odds & Ends Dept.

The Sad Sack “Impressed” By Sgt. George Baker

The Hero of Hischawelen Island (YANK Fiction) By Pfc. William C. Schmidt

Strictly GI

News From Home

Yank Pin-up Girl : Ernie Clarke

The Poets Cornered

     Spring Complaint By T-4 Josephine Pagliai

     We Are Young Men By Sgt. Philip R Benjamin

     Post No. 7, First Relief By Pfc Walter Kuttner

     Complaint To An Empty Purse By Cpl. Lester Asheim

     The Mourners’ Bench By Pvt. Raymond E. Lee

     Bonus By Sgt. Irving Caress

Sports

     Story of Footsy Britt Congressional Winner By Sgt. Dan Polier

     Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons