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July 16, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 48

Cover : General Ike and His Invaders

These men are American paratroopers who dropped on France on D-Day. At an English port, just before their take-off for “Hitler’s Fortress,” they are getting a few last, strong words from the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as General Ike.

Articles Inside:

D-Day, French Coast

In the face of German machine-gun fire, American infantrymen leave a Coast Guard landing craft and wade chest deep toward the mines and tank traps lining the coast of Normandy. Some, already on land, are crawling forward under the smoke raised by the covering Allied naval barrage.

Map of France

The Landings in France

D-Day Reports from Britain and Italy

     From a B-17 Base By Sgt. Saul Levitt

     From a Coast Town

From Rome, Where GIs Couldn’t Believe the News By By Sgt. James P. O’Neill

The Dusty Road Through Rome By Sgt. Fred Rosen

Stories from the notebook of a reporter who covered the advancing GIs of the Fifth Army during their historic capture of the first big capital city in Europe to fall into the hands of the Allies.

     Flour and Flats

     Message to Garcia

     Slang Slants

     Gotta Match?

     Supersnake

     Valet Service

     Esquire, Please Copy

     Secret Weapons

YANK’s United States By Sgt. Ralph Stein

A slap-happy map of 48 certain places of terrain in America that will be so nice to come home to.

Mail Call

     “Don’t Cry, Little Kraut” By Sgt. C. N. Laskaris, Pvt. Bing Hanley, T-4 M. Blattstein, Pvt. S. J. Kaczor, Sgt. Guy Calley, Pvt. Leo Delcambre

     GI Proverbs By Sgt. James M. Redding, Cpl. Austin C. Wehrwein

     Dodds’ Autograph By Lt. H. Overback

     Drafting Women By Cpl. Patrick T. McGinnity

     Prohibition By S/Sgt. Eddie Rice

     General Confusion By T/Sgt. Nicholas G. Shaheen

     GI Platform By Sgt. Ed Hartnett

Message Center

News From Home

Names in the News

Odds & Ends Dept.

The Sad Sack “Exercise” By Sgt. George Baker

The Hand Salute (Fiction) By Sgt. Joseph A. Keblinsky

Washington O.P.

News From Home

Yank Pin-up Girl: Peggy Corday

Navy Notes

The Poets Cornered

     Engineer Blues By Pfc. E. V. Anderson

     Icelandic Spring By Pfc Theodore Propp

     Pin-Up Problem By T-4 Arthur M. Zipser

     In Your Absence By Pvt. Louis Fisher

     Go Ahead, Try To Infect Me By Cpl. Sheldon Harnick

     Putting On The Squeeze By Cpl. Alex Drogichen

Three Years of Lend-Lease

Excerpts from President Roosevelt’s report on the economic operations that have given our allies the things they need to beat the enemy.

Sports: Jimmy Foxx Tells Why Rich Red Sox Flopped By Sgt. Dan Polier

Sports Service Record

YANK Cartoons