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...were building up our military strength in Britain in preparation for the invasion of Europe . . . a time of enforced inactivity . . . in which the average American soldier . . . was alternately bored, astonished, delighted, and depressed by what he saw about him." In a long-running series for the British edition of Yank, Artie became about the best-known U.S. enlisted man in what he called "the English Isle...
...10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming...
These are but two of the hundreds of G.I.s, some glum, some gay, whom Sergeant Walter Bernstein ran across in his three years as a correspondent for the Army's newspaper Yank. From a draft board in Brooklyn, Correspondent Bernstein's career in the Army carried him to Georgia, to Italy, and finally into German-held Yugoslavia, where he became the first U.S. newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...correspondents and photographers for Yank, Leatherneck, other service publications...