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February 22, 1944     Vol. 1 No. 12    20 Pages

Cover: “Post Graduate”
Seminar in painting is handled by Cpl. Joseph J. Kiefer (Newark, NJ) who makes the “Killers” planes look as tough as they really are.

Articles inside this issue:

Sweethearts of the 7th
Sue Masters, Miriam E. Nixon, Romayne Major, Audrey Edwards, Mrs. Charles Smalser, Dottie Wassell, Mary Southall, Mrs. Leo J. Mattera, Mrs. George Dehning

Bodacious Idjit
A B-25 Which is Helping Drive the Japs Insane
(Maj. Andrew E. McDavid, Lt. D. N. Trucker, Sgt. T. F. Dowd, S/Sgt. J. H. Shield, S/Sgt. C. W. Repp, Lt. E. J. Clay, Lt. D. N. Trucker and Lt. J. W. Moore)
By Robert McEnery – Photos by Strain

Master’s Degree
The Story of A Post Graduate School For B-25 Crews
(Pfc Elmer Hines, M/Sgt. Chester J. Dawidczyk, Pfc Donald Danner, Lt. Joseph P. White, 1st Lt. Joseph R. Patton, Sgt. Jewel V. Gray, Lt. Robert Mikulewicz, Sgt. Arthur Rose, Sgt. Ancel A. Markowitz, Lt. David K. Wolfe, Lt. Robert R. Evans, Lt. Norwood Reiff, Sgt. Jewel Gray, S/Sgt. Lewis Moore, Sgt. Dempsey L. Buckley)

7th AAF Has New Job
(Gen. Willis H. Hale)
By Hugh R. Floyd

Fierce Fighting Rages Below Rome
By Hugh R. Floyd

Marshalls’ Casualties Are Light
By Hugh R. Floyd

Pacific Fleet Shells Kuriles
By Hugh R. Floyd

Russian Massacre
By Hugh R. Floyd

Frankfurt Is Heavily Bombed

Tokyo Bull

Valor of Infantrymen Praised by General
(Lt. General Robert C. Richardson, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlet)

Letters to the Editor

Woodside…On Jiving

Jungle Lore for Castaways
By Kenneth Emory

Nuuanu St.-Lenox Ave. Moves West
Home to 7th AAF colored aviation squadron
(1st Sgt. James A. N. Kenny, Pvt. Floyd Philpot, Pfc Elijah Pitts, Pvt. Moses Laurent, Pvt. Alfred Evans, Pvt. Lonnie Griffin, Mess Sgt. David Drake, Cpl. Lester Gibson, S/Sgt. William McIver, T/Sgt. Horace H. Green, Pfc Eddie Glover, Bradinton, Cpl. Joseph Phillips, Sgt. Aaron Drinkard, Cpl. R. T. Virgin)

Dry Run Island (Island for practice invasions)

On the Home Front

Coconut Logs Make Bomb Proof Shelters
By Pfc Elmer Dethlefs

Brief Clicks ‘Em
(T/Sgt. Tom Edwards. Capt. Melvin H. Rye. M/Sgt. Albert L. Bryant. S/Sgt. Bernard H. Donlan, T/Sgt. Thomas N. Jacobs. M/Sgt. George D. Knoz, S/Sgt. Paul W. Kerr. M/Sgt. Jack Daniel, T/Sgt. Doris W. Allen, T/Sgt. Bill Cuzzort, Sgt. Gurney V. Legg, T/Sgt. William J. Landsey; (kneeling) M/Sgt. Sam Slinnugo, Sgt. Karl S. Clark, Jr., T/Sgt. William. C. Ingram, M/Sgt. Charles E. Oakes. M/Sgt. James L. Sadler. Pfc William. E. Fitzpatrick. T/Sgt. Charles H. Fort, T/Sgt. Marshall N. Ralls and M/Sgt. John W. Yates, Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, Brig. Gen. Robert W. Douglass, Pvt. Bill Cunningham)
BRIEF photo by Strain

Sports
(Coach-Captain Edgar Hennig, Frank Saul. Douglas C. Kirby. Donald B. Cesario, Elerbe Williams, Indian Trail, Vernon C. Brinkman, Jacob G. Richards, Everett Bewick, Arthur Savarese, Coach-Captain Ray Hyman, Providence, George E. LeBrasseur, Murray Moranos, Gerald G. Grossman, William J. Nosewicz, William J. Geraghty, Melvin Greenberg, Russel Bagliere, Vincent Genegrosso and “Doc” Palmer)

Entertainment – Pocket-Sized Books Serve Down Under

Fun with Ink (Cartoons)

Male Call “I Dream Of Genii”
By Milton Caniff

This Week’s BRIEF Girl – Miss Lei Becker
Back Cover: “Embraceable You” achieves all the meaning of the phrase in the sweet song style of Miss
Lei Becker, currently singing at Honolulu’s Kewalo Inn. (Photo by Chadwick.)