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    Yank, the Army Weekly was a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. The idea for the magazine came from Egbert White...
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    Yank, the Army Weekly was a weekly magazine published from 1942 through 1945 and distributed to members of the American military during World War II. Yank...
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  • from World War II. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR squadron....
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    Boulevard, and for television at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly Becklund, Laurie (June 7, 1988). "Obituaries : Ella Raines; 'Sultry'...
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    G.I. (category United States Army personnel killed in World War II)
    made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942. A 1944 radio drama, They...
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  • drawn in pantomime by Baker, The Sad Sack debuted June 1942 as a comic strip in the first issue of Yank, the Army Weekly. It proved popular, and a hardcover...
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    role) Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "Sheila Ryan Buttram WWII Pinup Beauty Dies". The Cumberland News. Maryland, Cumberland. The Cumberland News. November...
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    Florida. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly Tampa Bay Times, The Great Dane, July 20, 1941, Page 62. Central New Jersey Home News, Meet the Stars, August 31...
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  • Rupert Trimmingham (category United States Army soldiers)
    corporal in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II who is noted for writing a letter that was published in Yank, the Army Weekly that...
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    Barbara Bates (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    actresses List of people from Denver, Colorado Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "Barbara Bates WWII Yank Pin Up Girl June 1, 1945". WW2 DOG TAGS. June 1, 2020...
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  • nickname for the Queensland AC16 class locomotive The Yank, nickname of the prototype for the Waveney-class lifeboat Yank, the Army Weekly, a magazine...
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    June 13, 1994, aged 74, after battling lung cancer. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly Biography portal California portal Los Angeles portal Film portal...
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  • and struggle." Yank! takes its title from the World War II publication Yank, the Army Weekly. According to the Brooklyn Paper, "...“Yank” was a real publication...
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    White's Scandals (1945). She also appeared as a pin-up model in Yank, the Army Weekly. Holliday was born in 1922 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but moved to...
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  • U.S. Government Informational Comics (category Publications of the United States government)
    fueling the U.S. war effort, especially U.S. air raids and naval forces.[citation needed] Yank was a comic series that was published in the Army Weekly and...
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    Evelyn Ankers (category Deaths from ovarian cancer in the United States)
    Jessup The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950) as Calamity Jane No Greater Love (with Richard Denning) (1960, Short) (final film role) Pin-ups of Yank, the Army...
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    Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American war film based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was...
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    records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II...
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    education from the City College of New York. Hilda Simms died in Buffalo, New York, aged 75, from pancreatic cancer. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly Brown, Curt...
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    California. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly Lina Romay fanpage Archived 2010-04-02 at the Wayback Machine "Xavier Cugat" in The Big Band Almanac, Da Capo...
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    into the 1990s. Lyn died on September 11, 2016, at the age of 93. Her twin sister Lee predeceased her in 2015. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "Lee Wilde...
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    service, her body was cremated and her ashes scattered in the Pacific. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "Audrey Totter, 1940s film noir actress, dead at 95"...
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    Hollywood, California.[citation needed] Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "Actress-Model Is Dead At Age Of 46". The Danville Register. Virginia, Danville. Associated...
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    Today". Yank, the Army Weekly. 4 (8). United States Department of War: 7. Miller, Merle (10 August 1945). "Berlin Today". Yank, the Army Weekly. 4 (8)...
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    of Yank, the Army Weekly "Index Record for Frances Vorne". Social Security Administration. Archived from the original on September 12, 2023. "'The Shape...
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    Selene Mahri (category Finnish emigrants to the United States)
    Service) and a pin-up girl for Yank, the Army Weekly. Mahri was also known for her personal life, including being the mistress of Greek shipping billionaire...
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    During World War II, she appeared as the pin-up girl in the March 1944 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly magazine. She appeared in a series of successful films...
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    the Trail (1946) Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly "The Cover Girls came to Hollywood and left-but not Dusty Anderson". The Sunday Morning Star. January...
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    in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound...
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    Gale Storm (category The Interviews name ID same as Wikidata)
    1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's...
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