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Civilians Picture "Yank, The Army Weekly" as a legendary newspaper published by Army brass hats and soft-job seeking soldiers a cross between printed morale tonic, a military trade paper, and legalized pornography...
...Yank touches none of those extremes. It looks a little like PM, even living on a 5c-per-copy circulation, reads like Time without the Yale education, and flaunts the corny characteristics of the home town weekly...
...Yank is not comparable to any combination of civilian periodicals. It is not even a newspaper. "It is unique; doing a unique job in a unique way. Published every week entirely by 104 enlisted men, Yank prints five editions in three countries, posts correspondents a 17 world news spots from Chungking to the Alcan Highway, and is sold on almost every battle front and ocean on the globe...
...officer or civilian can write for Yank. Its staff consists exclusively of Army enlisted men plus two sailors and a marine sergeant. Every one has endured the tortures of basic training and most of them take their turn at an overseas front covering troop life and action for Yank...
...Commissions for 'Yank' Editors...