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Vol. 1 No. 23
Cover: Jolly Roger – A modernized version of the old pirate Jolly Roger insignia – with crossed bombs – flies the SWPA skies on the tail fins of the top ranking Liberator outfit. S/Sgt. Leonard H. Baer of Brooklyn designed the insignia in competition with five other artists, and he’s shown touching up one of his huge paintings

YANKs Take a New Britain Beachhead

Articles Inside:

Jolly Roger – Liberators of the AAF’s leading bomber outfit by Cpl. Ralph L. Boyce
Clifford McCarthy, John Holubowsky, Jack Lampshire, Barson Stanford, Leroy Wilson, Alton Colley, Alois Czubaj, Joseph Broschart, Edwin Wolfordm Richard Coates, Dean Jeffers, Pete Varellas, E.D. Eades, Ned Wesner, E.L. Skinner, Thomas Knight

Capt. George P. Dunmire with S/Sgt. Harold R. Pierce

Frank A. Matthews Jr. with Kenneth B. Rickert

New Cal Has Its Odd Points, Too by Cpl. Barrett McGurn

New Britain Landing – Advance Units in Rubber Boats Caught Hell When They Approached the Beach at Arawe

What Do You Know About Crap game Odds? by Allen Churchill Y3c

Sergeant in Italy Says Sad Sack is Shrewd, Sly Spy by Sgt. Walter Bernstein

The Two Years Since Pearl Harbor

The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker

Gollywogs Go to War ( Aerobic and Anaerobic Bacteria ) by Sgt. Charles D. Pearson

Pvt. Paul Beck

Undersea Fighter ( Submarine Photo Story )

Mail Call

News From Home

Ration Situation ( New Guinea ) by Pvt. Ozzie St. George

YANK Pin-up Girl : Lena Horne

The Poets Cornered

All American 1943

Harold Cope, John Elissomdoberry, Eugene Biiancalana, Fred Earles

Robert Hamilton, Shelton Clay, Lazarus Pappas, Virgil Bahr, Martin Greene, Sol Geddes

Sports: Knute Rockne would have been proud of this Notre Dame Football Machine

Cartoons