Description

Vol. XXVII No. 2
84 pages

Cover: This month’s cover is a portrait of the Commandant, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, painted by Lieutenant Commander McClelland Barclay, USNR, who is reported missing in action. 

Contents:

Over the Editor’s Shoulder

Sound Off

An Artist Looks at a Marine Barracks by Staff Artist John DeGrasse

The Straight Dope

A Visit With The Commandant ( Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb )

The Americas Back the Attack by Nelson A. Rockefeller

V-12 Program .

“The first wave” Engineers ( Combat Engineers )

NATTC – Ward Island ( Naval Air Technical Training Center )

Field Telephone by John Conner

The Marine “King” ( Gunnery Sergeant Faustin E. Wirkus ) – of La Gonave by Robert H. Myers

Jinx ( Marine Raider Thomas Francis “Jinx” Powers ) – A Singing Raider Haunts Tojo’s Snipers by Frank X. Tolbert

The Marine Band

One-Man Raider ( First of Gunny Tarr series ) by Arthur J. Burks

Three for Victory ( Medicos ) by Tom Davis

New Year Message From The Commandant

Leatherneck Pin-Up Girl – Dolores Moran

At Ease: Review of the Year

Question Box

How’s Your IQ

We the Marines

How to fire the mortar

Women Marines

GIST of the News

Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes

Gyrene Gyngles

The Marines’ Task by Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb

Sgt. Mitchell Paige : He Held the Line by Artist PFC Harold Koskinen

Citations

Casualties List October 15, 1943 to November 15, 1943 – Dead and Missing

Depot of Supplies – Department of the Pacific, San Francisco

How to Fly

The Editor’s Report

Back of the Book ( Profiles on Major Arthur J. Burks, Nelson A. Rockefeller and PFC Frank Drdek )