Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeble Defense. On the third day, Düren (peacetime pop. 37,000) was in Yank hands. It was the second largest German town to fall in the west. * By then, vehicular bridges spanned the Roer, and supplies, guns, armor and troop reinforcements were flowing steadily across. The Ninth captured Steinstrass, 18 miles from Cologne, which had been a refitting center for German armor. The 84th and 102nd Infantry Divisions captured some enemy 88s with ammunition intact. In a night attack on Merzenich, the First Army took prisoners in their sleeping clothes...
...June 1942 I was transferred to the newly organized staff of Yank, the Army weekly, and asked to do a cartoon feature similar to my Private Breger then appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. But, said the Yank authorities, the hero must have some other name than "Private Breger." After some thought, I decided on "G.I. Joe," the "G.I." because of its prevalence in Army talk . . . and the "Joe" for the alliterative effect. My cartoon hero's full name was "G.I. Joe Trooper...
...first issue of Yank, June 17, 1942, the comic strip G.I. Joe made its debut. . . . If anyone can offer documentary evidence of publication of the term "G.I. Joe" before June 17, 1942 I will cheerfully withdraw my claim, and offer such person an inscribed original of G.I. Joe or Private Breger...
Luckily, the appeal of the play's theme and setting keeps pace with its errors and artifices. Lachlen's companions-a Yank, a Tommy, an Aussie, a New Zealander-with their unforced talk, their unmilitary longings, their international humor-are likable stage types. They are also, because they never strain to be, pretty convincing soldiers...
...TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent . . . and one of our News Bureau men is gathering vital combat intelligence for the Army's G-2 Division...