One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

A movement called " Don't Yank The Crank " was organized by David Perham and Brad Hooper in a valiant but futile effort to keep their beloved crank phones.

The same can be said of " She Caught the Katy " ( originally written by Taj Mahal and Yank Rachell ) and " Jailhouse Rock " ( sung by Elvis Presley ) or " Sweet Home Chicago " ( Robert Johnson ), acknowledging the fact that covers can become even more famous than original performances.

In 1944, Loesser worked as the lyricist on a little known musical intended to be performed by and for US soldiers abroad, titled Hi Yank !, the music for which was composed by Alex North.

Carmichael's war time songs ( most with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster ) included " My Christmas Song for You ", " Don't Forget to Say ' No ' Baby ", " Billy-a-Dick ", " The Army of Hippocrates ", " Cranky Old Yank ", " Eager Beaver ", " No More Toujours l ' Amour ", " Morning Glory ", and the never completed " Hitler Blues ".

She appeared as Molly Beaumont in A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ), which was written partly by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Nor was he particularly sophisticated or cultured, just a big, up-front Yank possessed by ' the big picture ' in avian phylogeny and convinced of the righteousness of his cause and invincibility of his intellect.

He began a heavy schedule of performing, composing, and recording, leading several small live and groups, now often with racially integrated bands led by musicians such as Eddie Condon, Yank Lawson, Sidney de Paris, Sidney Bechet, Rod Cless, and Edmond Hall.

* The 1967 Disney television movie Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders starred Kurt Russell as a young Confederate serving under Mosby, portrayed by Jack Ging.

* Another blues song, " She Caught the Katy ", written by Taj Mahal and Yank Rachell, refers to the railroad.

Other characters published by Fawcett include Captain Video, Hopalong Cassidy, Ibis the Invincible, Bulletman and Bulletgirl, Spy Smasher, Captain Midnight, Phantom Eagle, Mister Scarlet and Pinky, Minute-Man, Commando Yank and Golden Arrow.

A Walk in the Sun is a World War II war film released in 1945, based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England.

* Yank ( a short form of " Yankee ") – originally used derogatorily by Southerners but now often heard outside the USA

Typically he is caught, and must be rescued by his crew of sidekicks, the American Eagles: Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee ( a play on Yankee Doodle Dandy ).

* 1971 – " Streets of Yesterday " opened, influenced by techniques devised by Paul Yank for a 1968 " Streets of Old Milwaukee " exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

He thereafter served in the Intelligence Division and continued his journalistic activities by editing the Middle East division of Yank and Stars and Stripes in Cairo, Egypt, and writing three books.

The series resurrects a number of Golden Age superheroes originally published by companies including Fox Comics, Crestwood Publications and Standard / Better / Nedor Comics, many of which are in the public domain, including the protagonist Fighting Yank.

Created by writer / editor Richard E. Hughes He first appeared in Fighting Yank # 7, Feb., 1944, and was quickly promoted to cover feature of Wonder Comics ( Better Publications ), beginning with # 1 May 1944.

Examples such as Lance by Warren Tufts and Frank Giacoia's Johnny Reb and Billy Yank proved artistic, though not commercial, successes.

' Yank ,' as he ( was ) called by his team mates, ran the first 300 yards at such a clip that it ' pulled the great Halswell's cork ,' the later finishing in third place.

Shortly after the beginning of Sherman's Georgia campaign, an ailing Yank wrote his homefolk: `` the surgeon insisted on sending me to the hospital for treatment.

Another Yank parodied the familiar bedtime prayer: `` now I lay me down to sleep, the gray-backs o'er my body creep ; ;

A Yank writing from Vicksburg, May 28, 1863, stated: `` not less than 50 balls have passed over me since I commenced writing.

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several American productions including A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and Operation C. I. A.

* The Fighting Yank ( I ) ( deceased )

In Portugal the word is seldom used and so is " Ianque " ( Portuguese spelling of Yank ).

* " Willy Wong ( Happy Yank # 2, Rayburn 1948 ) ( Merry Moments # 1, Martin and Reid, 1948 )

* Rossi, Umberto, “ The Harmless Yank Hobby: Maps, Games, Missiles and Sundry Paranoias in Time Out of Joint and Gravity ’ s Rainbow ”, Pynchon Notes # 52-53, Spring-Fall 2003, pp. 106 – 123

Leigh appeared with Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O ' Sullivan in A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ), the first of her films to receive attention in the United States.

The term Yankee ( sometimes shortened to Yank ) has several interrelated meanings, referring to people from the United States.

The truncated form Yank is especially popular among Britons and Australians, and may sometimes be considered offensive or disapproving.

In English-speaking countries outside the United States, especially in Britain, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, Yankee, almost universally shortened to Yank, is used as a derogatory, playful or colloquial term for Americans.

In certain Commonwealth countries, especially Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Yank has been in common use since at least WWII, when hundreds of thousands of Americans were stationed in Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

In Iceland, the word kani is used for Yankee or Yank in the mildly derogatory sense.

John Sebastian still leads The J-Band, which included not only musicians from the modern folk revival such as the late Fritz Richmond from the Kweskin band, but also the late Yank Rachell, mandolin player and jug band leader from the original era.

** A Yank in the R. A. F.

In 2002, Segal along with Global Village Champions Foundation and founder Yank Barry helped support Father Joe's orphanage for children with AIDS in Bangkok, Thailand.

Todd had appeared in the Dundee Repertory stage version of The Hasty Heart, playing the role of Yank and was subsequently chosen to appear in the 1948 London stage version of the play, this time in the leading role of Cpl.

* A Yank in the R. A. F.