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Vol. 4 No. 20

Cover: This scene shows a high-power TVA transmission line running through a Tennessee Valley rural area, symbolic of the benefits that have come from the world’s first attempt to develop, an entire region. ……. A Picture Story of TVA ……. Articles Inside: …

The Heavyweight – The 37th Division Shoulder Patch has a number of different nicknames, but to men who have worn it through six hershey-bars’-worth of combat in the Pacific it stands for a long and tough job only ended by the news of VJ-Day. By Sgt. John McLeod

Insurance – GI Life Insurance – what it is and what you can do with it after your discharge, has puzzled a lot of soldiers. Here YANK tries to untangle some knots. By Sgt. Max Novack

Dublin, Erie – American soldiers find a rare Gaelic welcome in the city by the Liffey, and the Irish are not beyond telling a GI on furlough what the States are like. By Edmund Antrobus

TVA ( Photo Report ) By Sgt. George Aarons and Sgt. Burgess Scott

The Sad Sack by Sgt George Baker

Fascinating Military Mysteries II – The Ghost on the U.S.S. Gnarf. By Pfc. Charles Peterson

Stars Fell on Cpl. Bains

PX

Small Business-Man on Luzon – Anecito Domingo was a jeweler and a furniture maker before the Japs came. Now he fashions stainless-steel watchbands for GIs and plans a new start in Liberated Tacloban. By Sgt. Marion Hargrove

Mail Call

Strictly GI

YANK Pin-up Girl: Frances Rafferty

Candy Jones By Sgt. Al Hine

The Picnic of Cell Block 7 By Sgt. James Dugan

Olympic Prospects By Sgt. Tom Shehan ( Olympic Games Revival )

Cartoons