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March 03, 1944 Vol. 2 No. 37
Beachhead Action Stories: Italy and the Marshalls
Cover: A Nurse Digs in South of Rome
The Smiling nurse digging a slit trench in Italy is Lt. Maxine Lykins from Albany, Mo. Sgt. George Aarons of YANK photographed her at work in the hospital grounds a few minutes after she and 21 other nurses had been landed in the Anzio – Nettuno invasion area – the first American girls to reach the beachhead established south of Rome. Articles Inside:
Hot Spot In Italy By Sgt. Burgess H. Scott
A report from one of the hottest corners of the earth, the narrow Allied beachhead between Anzio and Nettuno when there wasn’t an inch of territory protected from German bombs, shells, machinegun and small-arms fire.
Nurses Under Fire In Italy
Valiant Attempt of a Chicago Tovarich to Uphold the Tradition in Iran By Cpl. James P. O’Neill
A Yank in New Guinea Weds The Girl of His Dreams in Kansas By Cpl. Chuck Rathe
So Then This Little Guy Says to the Marine Sergeant
Good Neighbor Symphony By Cpl. Richard Harrity
Tito’s Army By Sgt. Walter Bernstein
The small band of freedom-loving Yugoslav men and women who started a brave fight with captured weapons against the Nazi invaders three years ago has now grown into an efficient machine of 300,000 Partisan troops.
Marshalls Massacre By Sgt. Merle Miller
The 7th Division, veterans of the Aleutians, wondered if Kwajalein would be a tougher nut to crack than Attu. But when they landed, they found that our guns and bombs had already smashed it to bits.
GI Mike (Radio Entertainment)
Mail Call
Post-War Justice By Cadet John E. Brown, Pvt. Jack M. Fox, S/Sgt. Miles S. Sampson, Pvt. R. H. Fanning Jr.
Mercy For Japs By Pvt. Ralph H Luckey
Boy And Man By Earl J. Quinn Sr.
Mail Call By Sgt. Al Forristol, Sgt. L. Kaiserman
Chelsea Cigarettes By Cpl. T. C. Hinton
Baseball Boner By Lt. D. Donellan, Pvt. Robert M Brieschke
Army Bonus By Cpl. I. R. Shipp
Perpetual Pfc. By Pfc. Michael A Sanders
Message Center
Shoulder Patch Exchange
Learning From War
It’s war all right, but simulated, and in Tennessee. These pictures were taken during the Second Army Air-Ground School exercises, applying the latest tactics learned to combat.
The Sad Sack “Habit” By Sgt. George Baker
Ghost Bride (Fiction)
Strictly GI
Our Casualties
AAF Colleges Released
Language Guides
Our French Allies
Overseas V-Discs
GI Shop Talk
Washington O. P.
Camp News
One-Piece Air Force
Skin Game
Davis Cup Ping-Pong
Oh, Brother!
Around The Camps
Try, Try Again
Yank Pin-up Girl : Betty Bryant
The Poets Cornered
Courage By Sgt. Harold Applebaum
Unrelated Quatrains By Pvt. Louis Fisher
Lightings In The Sky By T/Sgt. R H Bryson
The Problem Of The Soldier’s Intellect By Sgt. Bob Stuart McKnight
Tomorrow By Sgt. Carlyle A. Oberle
Navy Notes
Submarine Vacancies.
More Penicillin.
Dredgings. By Robert L. Schwartz Y2c
Px – Post Exchange
Submarines
L’envoi By Pvt. Frank Powers
Pure And Simple By Sgt. Irving Summers
Query By S/Sgt. A. I. Crouch
America’s Rather Girl By Pfc. Martin Weldon
Pvt. Kidder’s Sacrifice By Sgt. Franklin P. Hau
Sports: Take A Quote, Please, As The Great Minds In Sports Speak By Sgt. Dan Polier
Sports Service Record
YANK Cartoons