35 Glamorous Portrait Photos of Pin-Up Girls of the Yank, the Army Weekly

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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 included war news, photography, and other features. It had a circulation of more than 2.6 million. One of its most popular features, intended to boost the morale of military personnel serving overseas, was the weekly publication of a pin-up photograph.

Pin-up girls of the Yank, the Army Weekly

A feature story in Parade published in 1945 noted: “Excellent war reporting and photography, serious discussions of postwar problems and the now famous Sad Sack cartoons have made Yank welcome on far-flung battle lines. But the page most often torn out and tacked up for future reference on barrack walls and foot lockers is the one bearing the official insigne, ‘Yank Pin-Up Girl.’”

Yank pin-ups were distributed to locations worldwide where American soldiers, sailors, and Marines were serving. In 1944, the Associated Press published a report that pin-up pictures from Yank were discovered on display on the wall of the chief’s hut in a remote jungle village in Burma.

Here below is a set of glamorous photos that shows portraits of pin-up girls of the Yank, the Army Weekly.