Description
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 )