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January 18, 1944 Vol. 1 No. 7 20 Pages
Cover depicts a role becoming more and more common to Fighter Planes; to attack as well as to defend.
Loading a bomb on the “Thunderbolt” plane are (left to right): S/Sgt. William F. Proeber, Crew Chief; Pfc Charles A. Pierce; Sgt. Charles W. Verhine, and Major Norval K. Heath, pilot and CO of the “Dogpatchers.” (BRIEF photo.)
Articles inside this issue:
Sweethearts of the 7th
(Peggy Condon, Pfc Earn Rubenstein, Frances Harding, W. O. Joseph K. Harding, Shirley Wellen, Sgt. Melvin Wellen, Helen Barletta, Pfc Joseph Autorino, Dorothy Kaufman, Sgt. Al Freedman, Rose Sachs, T/Sgt. James Senesk, Tessie Peters, Pfc George Peters, Ruth Schmidt, S/Sgt. Raymond Langlas, Kate Bickert, Cpl. M. L. Main, Kitty Hammond, Sgt. Charles Bobe, Bunny Sites, Pvt. John Shallenberger, Elizabeth Adderhold, Cpl. Owen Fowler)
I Am A Flying Fortress
By C. Alexander Mallis
Marshalls Next?
(Major Earl James Cooper)
Personal Story Of A Bomber Pilot Which Hints At Our Next Move
This Week’s War News in Brief
By Hugh R. Floyd
Furlough Snow job . . (Cartoon)
By Hooper
Wire Photos by Press Association Inc.
(Gen. Marshall, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. Walter Krueger, Phyllis Brooks, Gary Cooper)
Amen by Bud Nelson
Letters to the Editor
(Edward I. Killion, Sgt. Arthur Bauer, S/Sgt. Charles W. Zendler)
Woodside…On Saluting
Picture Quiz Puzzle
Flight By Carrier
(S/Sgt. Harry (Red) Ewing, S/Sgt. Fred Whidden, S/Sgt. Stanley Mucha, Sgt. John Reed, S/Sgt. Barney Schneider)
By Robert G. Price
Personnelities
World War Vets Claim New Army Isn’t What the Old One Was
(Sgt. Frank McKee, S/Sgt. Allen F. Gonterman)
Slugger
(T/Sgt. Horace G. “Bud” Moran)
Cavities At Tarawa
Musical Soldier
(S/Sgt. Du Bose Robertson)
Brief Clicks ‘Em
(Lt. Mary Stallings, Lt. Joy Anderson. Lt. Betty Chase, Lt. Margaret Reeve, Lt. Joan Williams, Pvt. A. Konkoly, Sgt. A. English, T/Sgt. Austin, Pvt. Augustine, Cpl. Pino, Lt. I. H. Dames, Lt. F. L. Ayers, Lt. R. J. Condrick, Lt. H. L. Baccus, Lt. W. H. Powell, Lt. C. I. Cameron, Sgt. Claude Hardin, Cpl. Vernell Hughes, Cpl. Abraham Berger)
On the Home Front
Bond Booster
(Sgt. John Zagurasky)
Late Chow
(Mary Pickford, Miss Charlotte Linne)
What’s In A Name?
(Cpl. Louis Goldberg)
Beachcomber
(First Sgt. James Sproles)
Christmas Jackpot
(Lt. John Stevenson)
Wrong Number
On the Home Front
(Mark Thrash, Pvt. Leo McNamara, Mrs. Laurena Jones, Mrs. Jack Williams, Henry Kianski, Earl Myers, Harold Arbogast, George M. Edwards, Leonard Norys, Mrs. Marie Budde, John A. Millan, Dr. D. M. Davenport)
Cute, Eh?
(Sgt. John Alfor)
Premature?
(Alice Ealand)
Sports
Fliers Fail To Repeat; Lose 28-6
Luckman And Nagurski Did It
(Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Ray McLean, Harry Clark, Jim Benton)
Who • What • Where
(Gunder (the wonder) Haag, Cornelious Warmerdam, Connie Schwoegler, Andy Varipapa, Bob Weeks, Gaston Bourgeois, Lonnie Grey, Earl J. (Sparky) Adams, Sid Luckman)
National Sports
Entertainment
Hollywood Chatter
Pix to Watch
Male Call
Combat Report
By Milton Caniff
Fun with Ink (Cartoons)
Male Call
Things Are Not Always As They Seam
By Milton Caniff
This Week’s BRIEF Girl – Back Cover is that delectable morsel, that eye-filling femme, that pin-up of pin-ups, Jane Russell. (Howard Hughes photo.)