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Saturday: YANK BAYONETS SLASH PATH INTO CHERBOURG...
...Also in Titoland for the combined U.S. and British press was Renter's John Talbot. In addition, the Army's Yank published its first dispatches from Sergeant Correspondent Walter Bernstein, who had been in Yugoslavia for several weeks, shared his colleagues' enthusiasm for the Partisans...
...great many Army wives, keeping the home fires burning for U.S. soldiers in England, are regular readers of the Army newspaper Yank, which their husbands send back from overseas. Last week the ladies themselves were burning at Yank's playful soldier-editors. The paper has been printing lessons in French for the men who expect to invade France. In one lesson they were told exactly how to say, "My wife does not understand...
...British soldier and a U.S. soldier were standing in Piccadilly Circus when a dilapidated car drove up. Said the Yank: "What a wreck! Do you know what we would do if a car like that drove up in Times Square...
...reason, Baldwin acknowledges, is the rapid expansion of our Army, which had to yank many young men from civilian life and thrust them into jobs for which they had no background. He lambastes enlisted men too-civilians put into uniform through no choice of their own, "too many of them with too little pride in that uniform, too many of them 'soft' and impatient of discipline and hardship...