1944

Articles from 1944

American Losses at Normandy (Yank Magazine, 1944)

In the July 22,1944 issue of YANK the editors saw fit to release the numbers of American casualties that were racked-up during the first eleven days of the allied Normandy Invasion. In the fullness of time, the numbers were adjusted to be considerably lower than the 1944 accounting; Pentagon records now indicate 1,465 were killed, 3,184 were wounded, 1,928 were registered as missing, 26 were taken prisoner.
It is interesting to note that YANK did not sugar coat the report.


Of the total US figure, 2499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2,000 casualties at Omaha Beach.

FDR’s D-Day prayer can be read here

Additional facts and figures about the U.S. Army casualties in June of ’44 can be read in this article.

Home Front Spy-Hunters (Coronet Magazine, 1944)

Appearing in 1944, this article listed numerous reports relayed to the FBI by amateur spy-hunters of all the imagined foreign agents who they stumbled upon daily. Some of the accounts ended up being true and lead to actual confessions, but most were just plain silly – either way, the G-men had to investigate each account.

‘Sand Diego – A Woman’s Town” (Click Magazine, 1944)

Sand Diego wanted women for its war industries. Since the beginning of the war boom San Diego has cajoled, bribed and appealed publicly for women. And San Diego got women, not only for the war industries, but for every other conceivable job. They became letter carriers, bus drivers, high-altitude window washers, milk deliverers, office workers.

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:

Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.


Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…


Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…

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