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Vol. XXVII No. 4 ……. Cover: We don’t know where staff artist PFC Harold Koskinen got the inspiration for the March cover. When he showed us his rough sketch of a young Marine somewhere in the South pacific sitting in a foxhole and reading Bloody Adventures we liked it. Then when we saw the finished water color we liked it even better. Now that it’s on the cover we hope you like it, too. ……. Inside Articles: ….. Over the Editor’s Shoulder ….. Sound Off ….. An Artist Looks at a Marine NCO Club by Sgt. Pat Denman ….. The Straight Dope ….. Red Mike and his “DO OR DIE” Men ( Colonel Merritt A. Edson and the First Marine Raider Battalion ) by PFC George Doying ….. The War of Words in the Pacific ( Propaganda ) by John E. Fields ….. Case of the Crying Blond by Lt. Edwin Klein ….. Backstage in Hollywood ( Photo Story ) ….. Street Fighter by Frank X. Tolbert ….. PX – Big Business ….. One Marine Views His Post-War World by Sgt. M. L. Foss ….. Three Up Three Down – How the Marine Corps makes first sergeants from picked personnel at coeducational school in Philadelphia ….. Marine Artists Depict War’s Grimness ….. Japanese Bayonet Technique ….. Question Box ….. “Iron Kelly” Practical Uses for the M-1 Helmet ….. Leatherneck Color Pin-Up Girl – Alexis Smith ….. At Ease – Broadway Interlude ….. Color Pin-Up – Gene Tierney ….. We the Marines ….. Lt. Col. Cram – Torpedoes Japanese Ship From PBY ( Artwork by Koskinen ) ….. Trapshoot at Tientsin ( Capt. James Early Snow ) ….. South Seas Fishing Marine Style ….. How’s Your IQ ….. Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes ….. The Women Marines ….. A Marine at Oxford ( SSgt. Harry R. Gasker ) ….. Hashmark by Fred Lasswell ….. Know the Caroline Islands ….. GIST of the News ….. Gyrene Gyngles ….. Lion and Eagle Club ( Londonderry ) ….. Team Bayonet Fighting ….. Hero of the Hurlers – Captain Theodore Lyons by SSgt. Robert H. Myers ….. Tayal Terror by Maj. Arthur J. Burks ….. A Day With Marine Bombers ….. How to field strip the Carbine ….. Men of the Corps ( Gunnery Sgt. Robert Jennigan, Gunnery Sgt. Albert French, Richard Shaker and Gunnery Sgt. Eugene Stevenson ) ….. What Marines should know about Income Tax ….. The Editor’s Report ….. Back of the Book ( Profiles on Sgt. Fred Rhodes, PFC George E. Doying, Jr. and Sgt. John Jolokai )