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Vol. XXVII No. 6
84 pages

Cover: One night in January, when working around the office, we took time off to recall boot camp. Staff Artist, Sgt. Harry Koskinen, was reminded of his first inspection at P. I. and roughed out a sketch to show how he felt at the time. We got such a chuckle out of the sketch that we asked him to work it up in water color for our May cover. Does it remind you of anything?

Inside Articles:

Over the Editor’s Shoulder

Sound Off

An Artist Takes the 6:40 Train to New River, N.C. by Sgt. John DeGrasse

The Straight Dope

Question Box

Fast Freight to Hell ( Marine Combat Air Transport ) by Bill Miller

Arms across the Sea ( Lend Lease Weapons ) by Leo T. Crowley

Matchless Marines by MTSgt. Diggory Venn

The Ear-Banger on Namur ( Corp. Robert Koch ) by MTSgt. Frank X. Tolbert

The New Rifle Squad by Corp. Hal Bergman

Ratamacue and Flam Paradiddle ( GI Gabriels Learn Their Noisy Trade at PI’s Field Music School )

Fan Fare On Funafuti

Laboratory of Life and Death ( Marine Corps Equipment Board ) by Sgt. John Conner

“D” Day for Dogs ( First Marine Dog Platoon ) by TSgt. Murray Warder

Zero Busters ( Aerial Gunnery Photo Story )

“Cover is where you find it”

How’s Your IQ

The Deacon ( PFC Milton A. Dodson ) by MTSgt. Frank X. Tolbert

Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes

Leatherneck Color Pin-Up Girl – Joan Lawrence

At Ease : Dinah ( Shore ) is there anyone finer

Leatherneck Color Pin-Up Girl – Virginia Cruzon

We the Marines

Tubby Waites pulls a faint by SSgt. Harold Helfer

PFC John M. Gross : Tarawa’s hub of communication ( Artwork by Artist Harold Koskinen. )

GIST of the News

The Women Marines

They work to live

Hashmark by Fred Lasswell

Invisible Goliath by Maj. Arthur J. Burks

Gyrene Gyngles

How to replace the M-1 Firing Pin

Casualties List December 15, 1943 to March 15, 1944 excluding Tarawa

Men of the Corps ( TSgt. Adolph A. Rocheleau, GySgt. Robert E. Barrows, QMSgt. H. D. Bartley and SSgt. Lou Yet Ming )

The Editor’s Report

Back of the Book ( Profiles on Corp Hal Bergman, Sgt. William S. Miller and Corp. Herbert Anthony )