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Vol. XXVII No. 13
86 pages scanned

Cover: This cover is the work of Artist Cpl. Tom Lovell USMCR.

Inside Articles:

Over the Editor’s Shoulder

Sound Off

The Night before Christmas. Verse by PFC Duane Decker and Art by Corp Fred Lasswell

Straight Dope

How’s Your IQ

Three Marines Visit A Native Village ( Photo Story of MT/Sgt. W. T. Perkins , S/Sgt. Weston Parris and Corp. Mark Halsey )

30 Days on the Line – G Company of Col. Frank Hart’s regiment of the Fourth Division. By Sgt. George Doying

The Vanishing NAP – The naval aviation pilot ( NAP ) played a big part in turning the tide against the Jap on the ‘Canal and in later Pacific campaigns. By Sgt. Harold Helfer

Baby Transport By Sgt. John Conner

Weapons Company: Jack McCusker, DiGiambattista, James Aichele, Thomas A. Judy, J.J. Mulcahy, James O. Gallagher, James R. Ladd, John G. Strawn, W.S. Long, Carl T. Davis, Richard L. McCormick, John R. Jordan, Francis A. LaFlam, T.P. Kowalchzyk (Kowalczyk), Richard McConnell, Hohn M. Tarido, J.W. Witson, William P. Smoke

Water For the Fighting Men ( Water Making Units ) By Sgt. Bill Miller

The Talking Jeep – Frequently it took salesmanship to bring about the rescue of civilians

Strictly a friendly game – a short story by TSgt. Nolle T. Roberts

Nazis’ Nemesis by MTSgt. John W. Black

Banquet Patrol – When Guamanians are glad to see someone, they show their pleasure in practical fashion, with steaks and hamburgers. By Capt. John McJennett

Seabee Facial for Guam

Art In Aiea – What started out as a man’s hobby now is paying dividends to scores of combat veterans. By Sgt. George E. Doying Jr.

Future Fixers – The “MRO” operates on the theory that an ex-Marine has a lot more coming to him this time than just a job. By PFC Duane Decker

Combat Construction By Corp. Charles R. Stokes

Home was Never Like This – Hula dancers, a beach and deluxe rooms at 25 cents a day change a swank hotel into a serviceman’s paradise

Cannoneers Post! – Artillery troops are soft, according to the infantry, but not according to the Japs who’ve come to dread our big guns. By Sgt. John Conner

Nuts about Reveille by Sgt. Charles M. Platt

Men of the Corps ( PFC Nat Breman, PFC Edward J. Bachmann, Sgt. Major Roy A. Culberson and PFC David Cassidy )

Leatherneck Pin-Up Girl – Jeanne Crain

At Ease – News of the Entertainment World

We the Marines edited by PFC Duane Decker

Gizmo and Eightball by Rhodes

Deep Six

Hashmark by Fred Lasswell

Gyrene Gyngles

Post War Aviation Opportunities Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 2

Tachovskys’ Terrors ( 1st Lt. Frank J. Tachovsky and his Scout-Snipers )

Nightfall – Artist’s sketches of a Marine combat unit resting

The Sergeant Had Itchy Feet by Sgt. Robert H. Myers

Sorenson: He deserved a miracle ( PFC Richard K. Sorenson MOH )

40 Boots and a Saddle – Straight through the saddle they pushed, leaving a trail of dead snipers and machine gunners in their wake. By Sgt. Bob Cooke

Neptune’s Nonsense – Ceremonies for making shellbacks provide fun for everyone except the pollywogs

Boot Briefs

Casualties List September 15, 1944 to October 15, 1944 – Dead and Missing

Hot Off the Press

The Editor’s Report

Back of the Book ( Profiles on Sgt. Tom Lovell, PFC Duane Decker and Sgt. Tom W. Davis )