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January 11, 1944         Vol. 1 No. 6          20 Pages

Cover: Eyes of the sky and the sea – a B-24 and a light-house somewhere in the Central Pacific – two symbols of our Army and Navy. (Photo by BRIEF)

Articles inside this issue:

Brief Clicks ‘Em
(Pvt. John A. Stastny, S/Sgt. Linus Esneault, Pvt. Alfred Nathan)

What Is an Atoll?

Escape From G.I.
(Miss Beatrix E. Eklund, S/Sgt. Brooks R. Long, S/Sgt. Thomas J. Reynolds, Lt. Col. Amos W. Flemings, Sgt. Louie G. Walden)

Down Under Hula

This Week’s War News in Brief
(Bob Hope, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Joan Fontaine, Monica M. Daventry, Ruth P. Watson, Pfc Dorothy Jaquays, Pvt. Mary L Steffes, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-sheks, Gen. George C. Marshall, 1st Lt John H. Ferguson, Hermann Niekamp)

A-men by Bud Nelson

Jungle Lore For Castaways by Kenneth Emory

Worries, Inc.

Sweethearts of 7th Begins Next Issue

Picture Quiz Puzzle

Cuties
By E. Sims Campbell

Camera Grows Wings
(S/Sgt. Peter Serduke, Pfc Joseph Plutzker, S/Sgt. Allen Mooney, S/Sgt. Peter Serduke, T/Sgt. Leroy Saunders)

Personalities
     Midget Planes Provide Diversion
     (S/Sgt. Albert Turner, Sgt. Richard W. MacDarment, Cpl. Paul Rasmusson, Pvt. Francis Nelson, Sgt. Richard MacDarment and S/Sgt. Albert Turner)
     Counter-Espionage
     (Pfc Lou A. Huston, Lt. John M. Claflin)
     Hall Of Fame
     (Lt. Franklin Hibbel)
     Ex-Pilot
     (T/Sgt. James P. Whaley)
     By Cpl. Steve Chiani
     Gold Rush
     (Pvt. Mike Pasco)
     To The Ladies
     Father Meets Son
     (Cpl. James L. Latimer
     Ration “D”

Petticoat Army
Simon Le Gree
By William Hooper

Real Glory
A short story by Robert McEnery, Illustration by Lyle D. Strain

Middle East Pin-Up
(Miss Murial Buckle, Cpl. Enos LeFave)

On the Home Front
(John Wezzaro, Mrs. Anna Palker, Roger Touhy, Joseph MacAvoy, Harry Zacky, Tom Howard, Charley Barnicle, William Cully, Virgil Pettigrew, Jack Straight, Don Hayward, Frank Drake, Joe Smith)

Sports
     Redskins vs. Giants
     (Andy Farkas, Ward Cuff, “Slingin’ Sammy” Baugh)
     New Year’s Battle Results
     (Jim Hardy, Steve Van Buren, Eddie Prokop, Glenn Dobbs, Herman Wedemeyer)
     Who What Where
     (Hank Iba, Joe Lapchick, Bob Kurlund, Harry Boykoff, Young Otto, Lulu Constantino, Al Guido, Buck Newsome)
     Partners
     (Jerome “Dizzy” Dean)
     Signals Take Title
     Ropes Save
     (Sammy Angott and Bobby Ruffin)
     Flier Cagers Open Season Jan. 16
     (Capt. Ed Hennig, Edwin Irons, Mike Rubish, Bob Schau, Mel Greenberg, Frank Saul, Lt. Jake Richard, Vern Brinklen, Russel Baglierri, Bill Rozer, and Geraghty)

Entertainment
     Lack of Entertainment Down Under Is Military Problem states Col. Metcalf
     (Col Walter A. Metcalf,
     Three Stars
     (Gary Cooper, Una Merkel and Phyllis Brooks)
     Return From Down Under
     (Gary Cooper, Una Merkel and Phyllis Brooks)

Fun with Ink (Cartoons)

Male Call
In Attacking, Never Take Terrain For Granted
By Milton Caniff

This Week’s BRIEF Girl – Declared the best Pin-Up Girl for 1943 – by a committee of Service Men is this picture of Ramsey Ames at the Hollywood Studios still photography show. (Photo by Press Assoc. Inc.)