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December 21, 1943          Vol. 1 No. 3          20 Pages

Cover: Silent Night

Articles inside this issue:

A Present For Bobby
By George R. Ammerman

Many Christmas Packages Arrive Down Under

C.G. of Special Service
(Brig Gen Joseph W. Byron, Col. William Famum, Brig. Gen. William. G. Flood, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Douglass, Col. C. R. Frederick)

Phone Center Set Up for GIs

Baby Receives Award for Father
(T/Sgt. Paul F. Adler, Mrs. Matilda Adler, Brig Gen Robert Douglass, S/Sgt. Martin Alfred, Nicholasville, Ky., S/Sgt. Martin Alfred, S/Sgt. Frank Buchle, S/Sgt. James McGinn, Pvt. Harold Morgan, Marrion Morgan, Major Jerome W. Jackson)

This Week’s War News in Brief

Cairo Conference

On the Home Front
(Ora D. Rock, Fred Thompson, Calvin Perchers, C. V. Compton, Mrs. Ida Dubinsky, Mrs. Betty Diamond)

Male Call
You’re Ridin’, Now, Red!
By Milton Caniff

Season’s Greetings
(Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, Brig. Gen. Wm. J. Flood, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Douglass, Jr., Brig. Gen. T. H. Landon, Brig. Gen. Walter J. Reed, Lt. Col. Howard B. Simpson)

Stephen in Sleepycamp – Chapter III

Worries, Inc.
(Pvt. Martin Dunston)

Jungle Lore for Castaways
By Kenneth Emory

Makin – Jap Graveyard
(T/Sgt. Norman D. Hoch)
By William Cunningham

Personalities
(Cpl. Oswald Lau)

Miss Lace
By Milton Caniff

Brief Artist Designs V-Mail Greetings
(Chaplain Newman and Cpl. Leonard Mondi)

Harlem Hits the Tropics
(Cpl. Milton J. Williams, Cpl. Morgan Robinson, Pvt. Walter Radcliffe, Sgt. Charley Pickering. Pfc Charles Richards, and Pfc Landel Richardson, Cpl. Willard Jackson, Cpl. James Ross, Pfc Henry Wessels)

Brief Photo Pages
(Pvt. Luther Bloom, Sgt. John Hickle, Sgt. Ervin Melicher, Pfc Arthur Johnson, Cpl. Elden Bueman. Sgt. David Gaines, Cpl. Peter Denis, Sgt. Ed Melicher, Cpl. Ivan Rule, Cpl. Zina Boulter, Sgt. G. P. Van Orsdale, Cpl. L. Maranto, Pvt. E. C. Blomgren, Pfc F. H. Coolidge and Pvt. A. De Maio, T/Sgt. Habib Fawaz, Cpl. Clifford Neidrich, Sgt. Stephan Steeze, Lt. Henry M. Martens Jr., and Sgt. Harold Shoyer, Maj. Wm. G. Lopez, Col. E. Moore, Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, Maj. Lopez, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Douglas, Jr., Brig. Gen. Wm. J. Flood, S/Sgt. Clyde Mortensen, Cpl. George Cook, Pvt. Max Berger and S/Sgt. Fernan Loranger, Capt. Clark Gable, Major Gregory Boyington, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Anthony Eden, Ambassador John Winant, and U.S. Ambassador to Russia, W. Averell Harriman, Major Edward Craag, Lt. Rudy Vallee, Bette Jane Greer)

Sports
     The Army-Navy Lily Bowl Game Will Be Played In Bermuda Jan. 1.  Watch For Results.
     Another Pigskin Season Goes To Bed
     Nation’s Best
     Fliers Win The Hard Way
     Who-What-Where?

Entertainment – Beachead Revue Goes Down Under
(Sgt. Roger Hail, Pfc Whitney Wood, Cpl. Ted Reynolds, Pvt. Jack Dalton, Cpl. Robert O’Donnin, Cpl. Frank Young, Willie Danville, Pfc J. C. Crumley, Pvt. Willie Danville)

Fun with Ink (Cartoons)

Petticoat Army
Room Service
By William Hooper

This Week’s BRIEF Girl – Grace McDonald