''YANK Magazines''

This is my collection of YANK Magazines with on the cover Staff Sergeant Joseph "Sonny" Arnaldo # 31426150 from Company A, 331st Infantry Regiment,83rd Infantry Division.
The GI in this covers is a true American hero. The photograph, which is in the official history of the 331st, appeared for the first time on the cover of YANK Army Weekly magazine from February 4, 1945.
"When this picture was taken by YANK's staff photographer Sgt. Reg Kenny, Joseph Arnaldo of New Bedford, Massachusetts, had just come off the line after 10 successive days of fighting. His hood and face covered with snow, Arnaldo had recovered from a temporary blindness when an 88 mounted on a Jerry tank was fired a few yards from him." Multiple photos must have been taken because there are slight differences in the photos that have been printed.

These eyes have seen a thousand miles.
Perhaps they'll see a thousand more.
These eyes have seen a thousand die.
I pray to God to end this hellish war.

These eyes have seen the bloody hedgerows in the rain.
They've seen the tree bursts in the Hurtgen,
And the lifeless forms half buried in the snow
In the slaughter at Bihain.

See It Through! The call to victory beckons.
See through the mindless death and grinding pain.
Damn these eyes, they've seen too much
To see it through again.

Tribute to Sonny Arnoldo from the website of Dave Curry

Find more information of S/Sgt. Joseph Arnaldo on the website of his nephew Mitchell Williams.