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Newspaper
Yank
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1943
Page
3
Soldiers endure night patrols and the hazards of jungle warfare as routine medics treat sores and dampness while goldbricks become the toughest scrappers. Guards caution against lights after dark and a new arrival narrowly avoids danger during a mosquito bar misstep.
A wartime vignette describes a “bath and massage” amid Mippe Easy troops where a 30 cent service delivers a brutal but oddly relieving cleansing. A wary GI endures a heavy canvas gloved masseur, language barriers, and a hot shower before exiting in improved spirits, despite the rough treatment.
George Slim Aarons of YANK discovers a Life magazine page copied into a Berlin paper, showing him and a blonde in a Thames punt. The caption was misused to claim Americans chased English women, while Aarons recalls the blonde being paid briefly and her boyfriend in the Middle East mentioned.
At a South Pacific air base Chaplain William KR Smith of Smith's Grove Kentucky guides a squadron of rough men among Solomons engineers. He built a day room from packing boxes and wire, operates a small library, and drives long nights to lead prayer meetings. He and his aide, Set. Karl Ward, say they simply did what they could and the men respond to religious activity.
Medics win sales prize after peddling pink women’s silk panties at the hospital PX. A couple of GI buyers, unaware the stock was for nurses, purchase the set for 1172 dollars beside chewing tobacco. Victims, identified as Frank Wallace, Lawrence Elliott, and Sol Weinberg, claim the misstep.
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