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...better-looking than all those WACs put together. Why don't you give the WAVEs (and the public) a break and run her picture? We got her out of a big department store here in San Francisco, and she sure runs our outfit like a pants factory. [WAVE YEOMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...this letter he told of some of his experiences along with those of the other boys from here who were with him. He reported that Donogan is now in SK school in Idaho; Pickle is at Q.M. School at Great Lakes; Gordon is attending Yeoman School at Great Lakes; and Jim himself is attending Yeoman School down in Bainbridge. We all wish Jim the best of luck...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/18/1944 | See Source »

...known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went he was troubled by his name, which fitted him like an outsize hat. "Say, are there three of you guys from TIME aboard, or what?" asked a puzzled yeoman who saw his papers on one ship. "I got a Duncan, a Norton and a Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look Homeward, Fighter | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Scene: Spring of 1939 on the U. S. S. Bushnell off the coast of Colombia. Yeoman striker Kerr interrupts his daily routine long enough to read a dispatch confirming his appointment to the Academy. It was a happy day in Seaman 2/c Kerr's life, for the dispatch was the fulfillment of his motive for joining the Navy...

Author: By Midn E.T. Long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/7/1944 | See Source »

...what the P-51 is to the U.S., the Spitfire IX to Britain. Designed by Alexander Yakovlev, this fast, durable fighter flies at 365 m.p.h., has a range of 425 miles, carries a cannon, two heavy machine guns (light armament by British or U.S. standards, but enough to do yeoman work for the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Pokryshkin Wins | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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