A piece of WWII ephemera
Yank : The Army Weekly Vol.3 No.22 Nov.17 1944 (Alaska Edition)
Includes an illustrated article (pp. 4-6) "The Liberation of Athens"
by Sgt. Joe McCarthy, Yank Staff Correspondent.
But not "THAT" Joe McCarthy ... as far as I can tell <g>
given the reporter 's comments on ELAS/KEE ...
"The Greeks are great ones for chanting slogans while they march.
There was a big representation of the Kappa Kappa Epsilon, the
Greek Communist group, weaving along the street in a procession
like a snake dance and roaring in perfect harmony like a college
fraternity " Kap-pa Kap-pa Ep-see-lon." It sounded like the campus
at Ann Arbor, Mich. the night before the Minnesota game"
Also details about the effect of war-time inflation on the
value of the drachma:
"As I write the drachma is worth almost 100 billion to the dollar
and its value is still dropping. One cigarette costs 80 billion
drachmas, one egg costs 8 million drachmas..."
Interesting to read what the servicemen in the US Army were
being told about the situation in Greece at the time.
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