Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...beginning the desk men in New York did all the writing for Yank. The weekly was started with a bang last June, before field correspondents could be distributed. Now most of the writing is done in the field, and the copy is rushed back from overseas in intelligence packets which are flown to headquarters. Unsolicited cartoons, sports news, and yarns such as on life in Miami hotels and what to take with you overseas frequently turn...
During the summer the full page pin-up girl was cut down to save space, but violent objections flowed in. Yank's India correspondent found the girls decorating all the barracks in that corner of the world. There has been one in every issue since...
...seeking to develop confidence in and respect for his Army weekly "by the men . . . for the men in the service," in anticipation of another problem yet to be met. When victory is won, McCarthy foresees a morale problem among the men wishing to get home. He hopes to make Yank just as useful then, after the war is over, as it is while his staff and reader are helping win it. Meanwhile he only admits. "None of us can tell just what kind of a job we're doing till it's all over...