The Leatherneck 1944 02 (PDF)

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Vol. XXVII No. 3
84 pages

Cover: Our February cover is a water color of the Commandant, Lieutenant General Alexander Archer Vandegrift. In painting this cover, staff artist PFC Harold Koskinen worked from a photograph of General Vandegrift, taken by a Marine Corps photographer somewhere in the South Pacific.

Inside Articles:

Over the Editor’s Shoulder

Sound Off

Jap Trickery by Artist PFC Harold Koskinen.

The Straight Dope

Vandegrift the Man by Corp. Norman Kuhne

Radio Entertains A Marine Hero ( Corp. Ed Melnitsky )

Busy Hillbilly ( PFC James Stone )

Amphibious Operation – The Story of Tarawa ( Photo Story )

Fighting the Japs on two Fronts by J. Edgar Hoover ( Jap spy ring )

The Gold Miner From Gawgi by TSgt. Frank X. Tolbert

Aviation Ground Crews by PFC Bill Murray

Malaria – Our Silent Enemy by Pvt. Tom Davis

Maestro of Maul ( Boxing Promoter Mike Jacobs ) by SSgt. Robert H. Myers

Letter to a Fighting Man

A Long Way by Lt. Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter

At Ease: ( Bob ) Hope at Dago

How’s Your IQ

We the Marines

Leatherneck Pin-Up Girl – Elaine Shepard

Hashmark by Fred Lasswell

Men of the Corps ( Master Gunnery Sergeant Edward Bald, Master Gunnery Sergeant James H. Satterfield, Master Gunnery Sergeant Jessie R. Glover and Gunnery Sergeant John W. Thomas )

GIST of the News

Women Marines

How to field strip the B. A. R.

Question Box

“Boot” ( Boot Camp )

A Date With Peggy by PFC Sheldon S. Bereny

Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes

Know the Marshall Islands

Citations

Rhapsody In Greens ( Camp Lejeune Women’s Reserve Band )

Pvt. Hurshall W. Hooker : toll, eight Japs by Artist PFC Harold Koskinen

Postal Art by Corp Robert J. Donovan

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

Gyrene Gyngles

Cold Care

Women Test Pilots

Chasing the Jap Fleet

The Editor’s Report

Back of the Book ( Profiles on PFC Harold Koskinen, PFC Robert Wilton and SSgt. Al. Longo )