Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
With all this effort and sacrifice, you will never find a copy on any newsstand, and few civilians will ever even see an issue. Yet the editors of Yank are planning even further expansions, and are organizing the world's first attempt at "chain store journalism...
...Yank is not be confused with the other three Army publications. The daily Stars and Stripes is published in London chiefly as a substitute for the hard-to-appreciate English newspapers. The Caribbean Sentinel and the CBI Roundup, distributed in China, Burma, and India, are both regional weeklies...