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

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.

* Cockney rhyming slang for American, coming from Septic tank = Yank

*$ 350 million from Yank Barry and his Global Village Champions in food, education and medical supplies to the needy around the World from 1990 to the present.

In November 2002 Reis re-released Yank Crime through his Swami Records label, including on it the tracks from " Hand Over Fist " / " Bullet Train to Vegas " and " Sinews " from Head Start to Purgatory.

A pin-up of Williams from a 1945 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly.

* USS Yank ( SP-908 ), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

" Yank " operated a popular neighborhood saloon / restaurant and rooming house at 111th and Sacramento Streets, just across the way from Mount Olivet Cemetery.

" During World War II PRC made several war films such as Corregidor, They Raid By Night, A Yank in Libya and a pair of films set in China, Bombs over Burma and Lady from Chungking, both starring Anna May Wong.

* Yank: A bird from North America ( usually applied to rare migrants ).

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.

Eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant, he spent most of the war as a correspondent on the staff of the Army newspaper Yank, filing dispatches from Iran, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Yugoslavia.

" They do not qualify the list, which includes everyone from Alger Hiss to Harry Magdoff, the former New Deal economist and Marxist editor of Monthly Review, and Walter Bernstein, the lefty screenwriter who reported on Tito for Yank magazine.

* Yank Rachell page from Blues World site

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank was a Sunday comic strip drawn by Frank Giacoia from November 18, 1956 to May 24, 1959.

Linda Darnell in a May 1944 pin-up photo for Yank, the Army Weekly.

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.

Billy Yank is the personification of the Northern states of the United States, or less generally, the Union during the American Civil War.

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 1939 the tune ( at a quicker than usual tempo ) was used as the theme for the film A Yank at Eton.

The term has wider currency than the earlier derogatory term " Rangitoto Yank "

" Allmusic's Ned Raggett also commented on the emo connection in his review of Yank Crime: " Perhaps even more than the debut, Yank Crime solidified Drive Like Jehu's reputation as kings of emo.

Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Sam Sheppard, Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Madelyn Murray O ' Hair, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalban, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr., Harrison Ford, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Yank Barry, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, George Schindler, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Artie Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Ruth Dickson, Jimmy Edmonson ( better known as " Professor Backwards " who appeared more times than any other guest ).

Brassnose turned a stricken face toward me and said brokenly, `` Sommers, you meddling Yank, you're a fool!!

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

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.

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.

A Yank, disturbed by his increasing corpulence, wrote: `` I am growing so fat I am a burden 2 myself ''.

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 )

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.

* 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.

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 ".

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

** 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.

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.

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.

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.

* A Yank in the R. A. F.