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Vol. XXVII No. 7 ……. Cover: This cover is the work of Artist Harold Koskinen. ……. Inside Articles: ….. Over the Editor’s Shoulder ….. Sound Off ….. Sick Bay by Fred Lasswell ….. The Straight Dope ….. Question Box ….. Life on a Bulls Eye ( Puruata Island ) by Capt. Patrick O’Sheel ….. Harvest at Hell’s Half Acre – A watermelon swapped for a tractor started vegetable gardening on Pacific isles by Sgt. George E. Doying ….. If Monkeys Eat It – You Can by Sgt. George E. Doying ….. Fighting Pill Rollers ( Navy Corpsman ) by Sgt. I. R. McVay ….. How to Take a Pillbox ….. Hurry Hurry Boys ( Shore Party Detachment, Second Marine Division ) by Corp. Chester Engelman ….. C/O Fleet P. O. San Francisco, Calif. ( South Pacific Mail ) ….. Combat Patrol by Artist PFC James B. Treadway ….. The Leatherneck Speaks by William Rose Benet ….. Mop-Up Beyond Betio by Frank X. Tolbert ….. Family Reunion ( 1st Sgt. Jack Vanderbeck ) ….. A Day with the Wolf Pack ( VMF-112 ) ….. War Paint ( Camouflage ) ….. How’s Your IQ ….. Leatherneck Pin-Up Girl – Lois Collier ….. At Ease : A Marine’s Best Friend is his Bazooka ….. The Deacon Deals In Death ( Major William Ewart Fairbairn ) ….. Red Tops the List by SSgt. Ben Price ….. Sgt. Gilbert H. Henze : Radio-Gunner turns Pilot ….. Primary Dope ( Voting ) ….. Men of the Corps ( PFC Frank J. Leach, Corp. Irving Cleveland, 1st Lt. George J. Nowak and GySgt. John P. Sowers ) ….. We the Marines ….. Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes ….. Hashmark by Fred Lasswell ….. The Fall of Jiro ( Newspaperman in pre-war Tokio ) by Sgt. Hans R. Johansen ….. GIST of the News ….. Gyrene Gyngles ….. The Jungle Hammock by SSgt G. A. Waindel ….. Bougainville Water Co. ( Lonnie F. Suder ) ….. Fleas in the hair of the Japs ( “Aerial Hawkshaws” – Piper L-4 ) ….. The Women Marines ….. Casualties List March 15, 1944 to April 15, 1944 – Dead and Missing ….. How to field strip the Thompson Submachine Gun ….. The Editor’s Report ….. Back of the Book ( Profiles on Captain Patrick O’Sheel, Corp. Chester Engelman and PFC James B. Treadway )