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"First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title of
UNITED STATES MARINE"
No Flash in the Pan!. . .
The Heat's On!
Palau
Star Performance
Wild West In the East.
Guam
Saipan
The Fighting Red-head.
CONTENTS
.Page 4 Monte
South Pacific Serenade.
THE UNITED STATES MARINES. Nc
Chicago. III. Content* rrvip
turn. Printi-ii in the U, 5. «. toiwrui
Monte Zum
Semper Fide
Hero of Koromokino Lagoon.
Tanks of Tarawa
Leatherneck Lens
Split-Second Escapes
Vanguard of Doom
Sea-Going Bathtubs
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No Flash in the Pan
HE knew he was on the spot all tight, but Marine
fighter pilot Jamej Zekc Swett proved in the Pa-
cific skies that his fir»t bag of seven Jap dive-bombers
was something more than beginner's luck . . .
1 — Veterans figured Zeke might be a one-rime winner,
and feared that the Congressional Medal of Honor might
go to hi) head . , . But when he returned to the combat
zone after a rest-up in Sydney, he set. out to prove them
wrong . . .
2 — The days of the old reliable Wild'
cat (F4F) were over, and Zeke
checked out with his squadron — the
Fighting Falcons — in the new gull-
winged Corsairs <F4Us) with happy
exuberance , . . And then, on June 30,
almost three months after his first
spectacular combat, Swett went into
action again .'....!
3— Jap torpedo bombers were trying to mess
up an American convoy taking part in the
new Rendova offensive when the patrolling
Falcons spotted them. 'The Corsairs struck
like lightning — and Zeke Swett killed a
bomber on his first pass . » . J
4 — Then Zeke spotted another Mitsubishi
close to the water, trying to sneak in on oUr
convoy, Swett tossed his Corsair over, •went
snapping after the Jap's taiL He opened fire
at 400 yards, and watched chunks of the Nip
ship being bitten away. The wrecked bomber
dropped its torpedo . . . but crashed right
on top of the lethal missile end blew vio-
lently to Honorable Land of Ancestors.
itrol over Rend ova,
'■TiL'j iK i trouble- forced six Falcons to
turn back, leaving only T^eke and his
win^man, Hal Segal* to carry on.
Cruising at 26,000 feet h they spotted
50 Mitrmbisliis covered by a hawk
Hock of Y.vrQs . . ,
8 — Down went the two Marines — and caused
more commotion than a brace of foxes in a
hen coop. The Japs scattered all oyer the
ozone. Zeke sighted three Zeros on his wing-
man's tail, tore down and blew up one of them.
The others scrammed for safer places . ■ .
7 — Next Zefce picked himself a
bomber and dropped it with a
long burst, the Jap crashing
into the sea and sending up a
solid geyser of water that
drenched the Marine ace's
plane. Then a Zero got in
some hot lead, knocked out the
Corsair's motor, and '/eke had
to make a dead-stick landing
in the drink . , .
8 — With a "sitting pigeon" helpless
in the water, the Japs got very brave,
making pass after pass at Zeke, who
held on to the fuselage, ducking up
and down to escape the bullets, The
Zeros finally left and eventually Xekc
was rescued.
9 — Zelse drew another short rest
in Australia, after which he re-
turned to battle and continued to
prove that he was no flash in the
pan. Before finally heading home
to The States, he knocked down
his thirteenth and fourteenth Japs
- — catching the two Aichi dive-
bombers just as they were rendez-
vousing over . Empress Augusta
A ND the Nips don't like it! In (act, some of them are pretty burnt up about it when these Marine flame-
*» throwing tanks start belching their leaping fire. ... But experience has shown that the Japs cling with
fanatic tenacity to their positions once they're cornered, so these tron-clad arsonists save plenty of Leather-
neck lives 1
IOME out, come out, wherever you are! That's the biasing call of these medium tank', as they cut loose
at Nips in a pillbox (topi, a strong defensive position (middle), and holed up in a cave at the edge of
a Saipan wood (bottom).
LRU
GIBRALTAR OF THE RISING SUN wai
the formidable Patau Island group of
the Caroline Islands, flanking the south-
eastern Philippines, and key to Palau was
Peleliu, Here, on September 15, 1944, after
a record nine-day air and sea bombardment,
green waves of Leathernecks rolled over
"Orange Beach 3" ai the First Division
struck. . . .
MARINES of the First Engineer Bat-
talion of the First Marine Division
hold a front-line position on Pcleliu
Using a bomb crater as a foxhole,
. these Leathernecks took on all comers
t with their automatic weapons and hand
grenades.
INCH BY INCH
these Marines of
the First Division move
towards their objective.
It took five days of bit-
ter fighting for the Di-
vision to complete the
conquest of the cliffs
of "Bloody Nose" and
thereby silence the Jap
guns firing on the
Peleliu airdrome, where
Seabees were already
at work readying the
captured strip for the
arrival of American
planes which would be
used to neutralize uu-
invaded isles of the
Palau group.
PILL in the box? There
Gyrene* juM tossed in a
grenade, and await de-
velopment! calmly.
^ ^ SNIPBRS in that building learn "
about Marine* and their rifle*.
FLAME THROWER burn* into a Pelelhi pillbox a* a
Marine patrol closes in on a Jap diehard in the old
familiar pattern of Pacific warfare.
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SHOCK ABSORBER is Marine-manned halftrack going into
a f tl ° a i a K ain!( pillboxes. The machine serve* as a buffer for
the rnfantry by pounding enemy before riflemen mop up.
SHAMBLES of the Shamboa was what Marine
artillery made, wrecking this Nip 77-mm.
field piece and crew defending the airnort.
artillery maae, wrecmng mis txip 77-mm.
field piece and crew defending the airport.
DEVIL DOG-TIRED are these lads after
days of fierce fighting to establish the Peleliu
beachhead. But the Japs ate dead tired.
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10
STAR PERFORMANCE
IT was no Hollywood version of war in which film star
Lieutenant (jg) Eddie Albert found himself on the
death-filled dawn of November 20, 1943, when the Navy
took the Marines into Tarawa.
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bert's job to aid stranded
amphibious craft and to
direct traffic to rendez-
vous points. But he under-
took a bigger and more
dangerous task — rescuing
wounded Marines tinder
heavy Jap §re. . . .
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murderous fire on four separate rescue trips.
Once, a Jap sniper who had swum out to a
wrecked amphibious tractor attempted to kill
the occupants of Albert's craft but was
mowed down by accurate machine-gun fire
as Albert skillfully maneuvered his vessel
into position.
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plies ferried to the Marines
ashore by Salvage Boat 13 were
eight drums of highly inflam-
mable gasoline for use in tanks
and half-tracks which were
helping to turn the tide of battle
on Bctio Island. Lt. Albert ran
his craft through the brutal
gauntlet of Jap fire and unload-
ed the gasoline drums on the
long pier.
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Salvage Boat 13 was temporarily
disabled by the near-miss of a Jap
mortar shell, whereupon Lt- Albert
ordered his men into another craft
and carried on until the battle was
won.
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his crew surveyed their battered craft and
found over one hundred . bullet holes in her
hull. But her gallantry and that of her men -
had saved the lives of countless Marines, pro-
viding a typical example of how the Navy
backs up the fighting Leathernecks.
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ERST!
By MT/Sergeant Gene Ward
U. 5. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
If "fighting" is a Marine's middle
name, then you'll have to add an-
other handle to his monicker. And
that is "sports." From boxing down
through the athletic alphabet your
Leatherneck is one of the most
sports-minded of all fighting men.
On Guadalcanal, with battles rag-
ing in the forward areas, relieved
fighters "resting" on the beaches
played football with cocoanuts for
pigskins. In the Marshalls they
strung up hoops in cleared areas of '
palm groves and conducted basket-
ball tournaments. Down in New
Zealand and Australia, taking be-
tween-campaign breathers, they "re-
laxed" by bashing all the best
beak-busters the Kiwis and Aus-
sies could put into the ring.
But of all the sports contests in-
dulged in by the rough-and-tough
men of the Corps, your correspond-
ent has .seen nothing to match the
rodeo put on in Hawaii after the
Battle of Tarawa. The men of the
Second Marine Division went wild-
and-woolly-West in a titanic Bar-B-
Q and rodeo that was the biggest
entertainment of its kind ever put
on in the field.
The statistics on the Bar-B-Q
alone set an all-time high for picnics,
Elks included. And if there ever
was any doubt as to the Marines'
ability as trenchermen it was there
dispelled forever. Twenty-five
steers were butchered and broiled
over open pits (at 600 pounds of beef
per carcass); 800 cases of beer and
800 of coke were lapped up to wash
down 420 pounds of cheese, 60 gal-
lons of pickles and 50,000 buns.
The steer won this engagement but not before Pfc. Emil A.
Hillner (front) and Second Lieutenant John A. Bell Jr. (rear)
gave it a hard ride. Corp. James W, Fackrell (right) rufffet
out to catch them on the second bounce.
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One of the cowgirls opens the show with pistol shot).
The Leathernecks were used to the shots but a
cowgirl — any girl — was something else again!
As the first holiday in the history
of that Division— many of whose
Marines were on their third year of
overseas duty at the time — the men
had just cause for going to town in
a big way. And to town they went,
led by a batch of rodeo-wise Texans
who loped off with a major share of
the rodeo prizes.
The Marines built their own chutes
and grandstands, rigging a reason-
able facsimile of Pendleton's famous
roundup. And then aboard broncs
and wild steers loaned by the neigh-
boring Parker Ranch, they put on a
show that would have sold to S.R.O.
crowds in Madison Square Garden.
Number 1 thrill-event was the
bronco -busting, won, in true Pan-
handle style, by a young lad named
Tommy Price of El Paso, No novice
in the rodeo business, Price strutted
the stuff which had copped him
honors in Washington's Topnish Ro-
'deo and Goldendale Jamboree. An-
other winner was El son Wortman of
Bozeman, Montana, brother of a for-
mer Pendleton champ. He showed
the boys how they ,r ide wild steers
in the northwest. A corn -fed Ne-
braskan, Warren Lowry, milked his
wild cow in 50 seconds fiat for the
top award in that event.
Other events on the card included
roping-and-bulldoggmg, a mule race
and assorted fancy roping and rid-
ing. In addition there was a real
live {and blonde) Queen of the Ro-
deo, from Boston — a fancy-riding
Pistol Packin' Mama who was a
Texas filly living in Hawaii: plus
plenty of Marine comedy acts, special
floats competing for prizes and a pre-
rodeo parade.
All of which only goes to prove
there's nothing your Marine can't do.
14
GUAM
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GUAM, America's extreme outpost in the Pacific, fell to the Japs
a few days after Pearl Harbor. But here are the United States'
Marines, leaping from their amphibious tractor (above) to Guana's
vigorously defended beach, as the Third Marine Division and the
First Marine Provisional Brigade launch the come-back assault. . . .
OLD GLORY returns to Guam, as this •
official Coast Guard picture dramatically
shows.
MINSTREL boy to the wars has gone — but
this was no minstrel show on July 20, 1944.
The smiling Marine (circle) rides a landing
craft headed for Guam. . . .
PLAQUE that marked Marine barracks when the Japs
seized Guam in 1941 was found by these Leathernecks '
AMERICANS living in a shattered tomb, these liberat-
ed Guamanian families wait for the clean-up so thev
can return and rebuild their home town, Agana. . . ,
•
FINALE to Guam liberation is pounded out happily
by Marines of a pack howitzer unit on a salvaged
American-made piano (below).
tfHE MARIANAS ISLANDS, A
chain of fifteen steep vol-
canic isles, were named the
lad&ones or robber islands,
by magellan in 152.1. during
25 days of june and early
july, i9+4, united states
marines cornered td death
on saipan, capital of the
Lactones, between 20,000
and 3q,000 op its twentieth
century robbers- the ban-
dits prom the land of the
rising sun and their hard
won victory gave america
A VAST AIR-BASE JUST l^h&S'
MILES FROM TOKYO —
^Marines
of the second
and fourth
divisions,
veterans of
guadalcanal,
tarawa and
the marshall*
QUICKLY
ESTABLISH
BEACHHEADS
AND CHARGE
INLAND. THE
JAPS GIVE
WAV BEFORE
THEM. ASLITO
AIRFIELD
IS
CAPTURED.'.'
THE JAPS MUST HAVE
AN AMTILLEBY SPOTTER V I BELIEVE
IN THAT MILL-TOWN OF J YOU'/SE &IGI-IZ
CHAR AN- kANOA yJ -^V Sit*. I'LL
SEND A
PAT&OL /:
Though the japs retreated slowly
for thb first two weeks, they did
launch an occasional tank attack ,,,
but with disastrous results, by
june 30 we had kayo ed so jap tanks
buried 6,015 op their dead,
UjHE JAPANESE
ATTEMPT TO
LAUNCH AN
AMPHIBIOUS
CQUNTER-A TTACK
WITH BARGES
BELOW
GARAPAN IB
REPULSED, WITH
13 BARGES SUNK,
THE MARINES
STRAIGHTS N
OUT THBlR LINES
ACROSS THE
ENTIRE ISLAND
AND PUSH
FOR MOUNT
TAPOTCHAU ill
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THIS IS THE WAV TO WIPE OUT THESE.
STRONG POINTS . ,. FIRST,, TANKS-
THEN FOLLOW UP WITH DYNAMITE,
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POWERFUL
GROUND AND
AIR ASSAULT^
GARAPAN FELL
AND THE PINAL.
DRIVE TOWARD
THE NORTHERN
TIP OP SAIPAN
BEGAN...
' IS MADE To
PES? SU APE
CIVILIANS TO
SURRENDER ,
PAMPHLETS
ARE DROPPED
prom planes
And shot
PMOM MORTAR
OPPERING POOD,
WATER A NO
GAtmryf!
MARINES WILL GIVE YOU FOOD
AND WATER, THEV WILL TREAT VOU
MNDLY, . . DON'T BELIEVE
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WuLL- POWER OF OUR Cd-O&DINATED
AND, SEA AND Al R ATTACK CON-
\'pf,-. -TINUES... WARSHIPS, AND PLANES
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^rMfEAM WITH MARINES ON GROUND
'■"TO PUSH JAPS BACK TOWARD THE
NORTHERN TIP OP SAIPAN.
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"T WANY JAPS COMMITTED HARI-KfRI BY
LEAPING PROM THE CLfPFS..
BJTMERS MAPS
FRENZIED
FRONTAL
ASSAULTS-
WITH THE SAME
RESULT,,, THE
FINAL BANZAI
CHARGE CAME
ON JULY 9,
WITH HEAVY
CASUALTIESON
BOTH SIDES.
BUT IT WAS A
PVING GASP-
AND THE BATTLE
OF SAIPAN
WAS OVER,,,
Ijff&OM A STAGING ABBA NEAR THE MARINE CEMETAfZY ON SAIPAN MEN Of=
y THE FOURTH AND SECOND DIVISIONS, AFTER A BRIEF BREATHER FROM <*ATTL£\
^EMBARKED FOR A TWO- AND -A' HALF MILE AMPHIBIOUS JOURNEY TO ATTACK
77A/MA/ ACROSS THE CHANNEL. .. .
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fi£)UT THE
MARINES
SOON ,
LIQUIDATED)
THE JAPS
IN THE
SOUTHERN
SECTOR . , .
AND
TINIA/S/
WAS OURS...
OKAY •
LET'S
GET
GOING!
BUT A BETTER
WGHTER, FROM
GUAE^L REPORTS
LOOK! ME' 5 SAL-
VAGED A TOMMY
GUN FeOM THAT j
AMP7RAC. j/
THE JIAP RRE
IS SORT OF
HEAVY ON THE
PIER, AND NOW
THIS CORAL J5
STOPPING
THERE <SOSS JTEOf HE
SAID NOTHING WOULD STOP
HIM FROM GETTING AT
JAPS
the vital raq*o communications must
kept open, and red has seen hard at
work for several hours with the
battle going on all around him...
TWB HAW
•OOCTOR©
AND Q0RP5-
MEN ARE
DOING A
WONDERFUL
JOB. \*P«K-
INS .WITH
•THE VITAC.
BJLOOO
PLASMA,
•DONATED
E* THE
BACK HOME,
twbv AWE
SAVNS
LIVES AT
"GREAT RSKS
TO THBK
OWN. MANY
DOCTORS
AND CORPS-
MEN WERE
K1U-ED HERE.
THE DESPERATE JAPS ARE POURING LEAD
FROM EVERY WOOBsJ CREVICE AS RED RE-
SAINS HIS OLD POSITION. ALTHOUGH BADLY
OUTNUMBERED, THE MARINES ARE FOROINS
AHEAD. THIS IS ONE OP THE CRUCIAL
MOMENTS IN THE BATTLE OF TARAWA,..
I'M GOING TO GET THAT
THIS PARTICULAR JAP WEST HAS
BEEN STALLING THE ENTIRE
ADVANCE IN THIS SECTOR. IT MUST
BE WIPED OUT BEFORE NlQHTFALL..
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A/OT ALL WAQ IS GRIM. IN FACT HUMOR OFTEN KEEPS THE F/6HT/N6
MEN OF THE US. MARINE CORPS G0/N6 WHEN THE GOIkte /$
TOUGHEST HERE ARE SOME SAMPLES OE IVAP HUMOR AS REPORTED
b i MARINE COMBAT CORRESPONDENTS/ ncnx^n
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WgARV MARINES AFTER
A LONG PAY OF MARCHING* ANP
&KIRMISHIN& AGAIMST THE
Mfi&HWPLEJ? UNDER THEIR
PONCHOS TO ESCAPE TOjQRENTS
OF RAIN- THEY HHEINA W?T
MISERABLE W/&HT WAS AHEAP
WITH NO CHANCB FOR EVEN
ATlNy-FiRE OVER WHICH T&
HEAT COFFEE. OPENING THEIR
FIECP RATIONS THEY FOUNP
TINY CV8BS QF SV&AR GAYLY
NRA.PPEP IN COLORED PAP&R
CARRYING THE AD-
"EAT AT THE WALDORF/"-
SAIPAH, MARIANAS {eet-AYEOh
MARINE SGT, W- WILKIN SON,
24-, LOMG ISJ-ANP, MY. ANP A
&VPDY. SHARING A FOXHOLE,
WE fit PLENTY MAO AT EACH
OTHER OVER IYHO WAS
PULLING' WHOSE LE& AND
INTERRUPTING MVCH NEEDED
SL0EP. CAME The PAIVN"
ANP A BEPRA&GLEP JAP
SOLD/ER TURNSV OVT TO
BS THE- CAUSE HE WAS
8URIED IN A NEAR8V HOL&
UP TO HiS NECK ANP HAP
BEEN ATTEMPTING TO
SURRENDER ALL NIGHT,
SAtPAN CMR1ANAS ioclwo)*
A JAP FIELQ &UN IN THE
HILLS WAS SHELLING VITAL.
SUPPLY ONES 0? THE MARINES
POWN IN THE VALLEY.- FLYING
OVERHEAD, A NAVY AVIATpR
REPORTED ITS POSITION Tt>
SHORE SATTBRIES. THE
SHARP-SHOOTING MARINE
ARTILLERYMEN FlREP TWO
ROUNDS. SCORING A DIRECT
LATER THE SAME PAY
OOWN VIA PARACHUTE TO
THE MARINES CAME TWO
BOXS& OF CKkARS WITH 4
NOTE SAYIN
"N/CF GO'Nfy MARINES/ "
GUAM (OMLAYgD):
THM JAPS QN&W9TEOLY
HAD OTHER THiN&S ON THEIR
MINDS, 3UT IF THEY'D LOOK
CLOSELY THgy.MlSHT HAVE
NOTICED THAT INVADING
MARINES LANDED WITH
CLEAN SHAVES, NEIV MAIRCUTS
AND STARCHED AND PRESSED
DUNGAREES. MARINE IT,
COL. R.F CRIST JR., TRooF
CQM/HANDER ABOARD A
TRANSPORT, WAS lR£SPOfll£l&E
HIS DEBARKATION OADEXSS
INCLUDE!}:
A FRESH HAIRCUT.
CLFAN SHAVES AMD LAUNDERED
DUNGAREES FOR ALL. H4N05{
SAIPAN.MARIANAS w*lay*d):
SAIPAN SUE IS DEAD.
AM OVFR~$OLlCmeVS
MARINE PLACED HIS PET
TOAD IN A FLY TRAP HERE
CONTAIN! NO HUNDREDS OF
THE. SWARMING INSECTS-
IT WAS A TOAD'S PARADISE
IF THERE EVER WAS ONE
POP, THERE ARE SO MANf
FUI&S HERE THM- MARINES
HAVE RENAMED THE
ISLAND "PLYPAN".
THE- TOAD ACTUALLY
ATE- ITSELF TO DEATH.
ATE HIMSELF TO
DEATH -WHAT A
BEAUTIFUL WAY
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N/TH ALU THIS SOAP AROUND '?J
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MARINE PATROLS,
MOPP/N& UP, #0OND &V/DENCE
EVERYWHERE THAT THE
JAPS PR/ZED SOAP MORE
THAN MOST ANYTH/N&
JPt-SE.. WHILE MOST OF
THEIR, EO^U/PMENT INA? *
STUFF EC INTO KNAPSACKS \
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OP WELL.- KNOWN U.S.
AAAkES WAS CAREFULLY
WRAPPED IN WATE"RPROOE
PAPER AND CLOTH. THEY
HAD PLENTY OF IT,
APPARENTLY HAVING
CAPTURED SUPPLIES OF
SOAP EARUEP IN THENAR.
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NEW HEROES. BANKING
WfTH THOSE OF ANY
OTHER ERA, EMERGED
FROM THE SMOKE OF
BATTLE WHEN THE U.S.
MARINES STORMED
THE JAPANESE POSITIONS^
AT BOUGAINVILLE. BUT
OP ALL THE HEROIC
DEEDS PEFORMED IN
THAT MEMORABLE EN-
GAGEMENT, PERHAPS
NONE WAS MORE
SPECTACULAR THAN
THE DARING EXPLOIT
OF P. P. C. JOHN PERELLA
WHOSE OUTSTANDING
COURAGE AND FORTI-
TUDE SAVED HIS
BATROL FROM CERTAIN
ANNIHILATION i
SIX DAYS LATER, THE ENEMY LANDED ABOUT
SOO MEN FROM BARGES TO THE NORTH OF
BEACHHEAD. THEY WORE BLACK CAPES
WHICH WERE INTENDED TO CONCEAL THEM
IN THE DIM LIGHT OF MORNING.
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THE MARINES PLANNED A COUNTER- ATTACK FOE
THS NEXT MORNING, AND SENT FWTROLS BEHIND THE
JAP LINES TO UNCOVER INFORMATION CONCERNING
THE ENEMY, ONE OF THESE PATROLS, LED BY
LT. THOMAS H. HARVEY JR.. OF KINSTON, N.C.,
PENETRATED DEEP INTO JAP TERRITORY.
AFTER DARK, THE afc MEN SET UP A
DEFENSE WITH THEIR OWN BODIES. THEY
LAY IN A SEMI- CIRCLE AROUND THE
WATER'S EDGE, EACH MANS HEAD
TOUCHING ANOTHER'S FOOT.
AT 8:^5 THE NEXT MORNING, OUR
COUNTER ATTACK WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN
AND LT. HARVEY REALIZED SOMETHING
HAD TO BE DONE BEFORE THEY WERE
CAUGHT IN A MURDEROUS CSJOSSFWE.
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SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE— AND IN A
HURRY! JOHN PETRELLA, A 19-VEAK OLD P.F.C.
FROM SPRINGFIELD, MASS,, VOLUNTEERED FOR,
THE DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENT OF TRYING TO
REACH THE AMERICAN LINES' AT DAYBREAK
TWO HOURS AND FORTY-FIVE MINUTES BEFORE
THE ATTAOC, HE STARTED HIS SWIM TO THE SEA.
PERELLA HAD NO IDEA HOW LONG HE
WOULD BE IN THE WATER SO HE TOOK WITH
HtM A SMALL WOODEN RAFT ME FOUND ON
THE BEACH. THE ODDS OF HIS GETTING HELP
IN TIME WERE REMOTE. BUT IT SEEMED THE
ONLV CHANCE FOR THE STRANDED PATROL
HE WAS SCARCELY A HUNDRED YQKDS
FROM THE BEACH WHEN THE JAPS
SPOTTED HIM, AND OPENED UP WrTH
RIFLE AND MACHINE-GUN FIRE.
IT WAS TORTOROUS GOING, SLOWLY PULLING
THROUGH THE WATER WITH BULLETS SPAT-
TERING AROUND HIM. IT TOOK PETRELLA
ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE HE SWAM OUT
OF RANGE. ALU THE WHILE HE WAS A
DEFENSELESS TARGET, BUT BY SOME
MIRACLE HE WASN'T HIT.
PERELLA GREW DISCOURAGED BECAUSE HE
SAW HE'D NEVER BE ABLE TO SWIM AROUND
TO THE AMERICAN LINES IN TIME . BUT AT A
LITTLE BEFORE B A.M., HE WAS DISCOVERED
BY AN AMERICAN PLANE.
A US. NAVY BOAT WAS SENT OUT TO
PICK HIM UP. IN A LITTLE WHILE
PERELLA WAS SPOTTED AND HOISTED
ABOARD. ..
IN THE NICK OF TIME, PERELLA SUCCEEDED
IN SETTING WORD THROUGH TO MARINE
HEADQUARTERS.
OUR ATTACK WAS POSTPONED FOR FIFTEEN MIN-
UTES, GIVING PERELLA TIME TO DIRECT THE BOAT
BACK TO THE BEACH WHERE HIS PATROL.
MAROONED. THREE MINUTES BEFORE THE ZERO
HOUR, HARVEY AND HIS MEN WERE RESCUED
THEY WERE JUST PULLING OUT OF SIGHT
OF THE BEACH WHEN, AT NINE THE
TERRIFIC AMERICAN BARRAGE BEGAN
THE MEN SAW ONE OF THE FIRST SHELLS
EXPLODE AT THE VERY SPOT WHERE
THEY HAD SPENT THE NfGHT
FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, A THUNDEROUS HAIL
OP AMERICAN ARTILLERf/. FIRE RIPPED THE
JAP DEFENSES .
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KOROMAKINA LAGOON VICTORY WAS IMPORTANT
BECAUSE IT COMPLETELY DESTROYED ALL JAP
RESISTANCE ON THE BOUGAINVILLE LEFT FLANK
THE WORK WHICH LT. HARVEY'S PATROL HAD DONE
BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES HAD HELPED MAKE
THE VICTORY POSSIBLE. BUT IF JOHN PETRELL.A
HAD NOT RISKED HIS LIFE IN THE SPECTACULAR
SWIM TO SEA, HARVEY AND HIS MEN WOULD
PROBABLY HAVE BEEN KILLED WITH THE JAPS.
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AT EXACTLY 9; IS, THE BARRAGE STOPPED AS IF
TURNED OPP BY SOME MASTER SWITCH AND
DEAD SILENCE ENVELOPED THE JUNGLE, AT THE
SAME TIME, A LONG LINE OF MARINES ROSE
OUT OF THEIR POX HOLES AND ADVANCED TO-
WARD THE JAP POSITIONS TO FIND THEM DESTROYED
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AMONG THE MOST THRILLING CHAPTERS'
IM THE BLOODY BATTLE FOR TARAWA
AKJO TO THEM MUST QO MUCH OF THE
CREDIT FOR A SUCCESSFUL FIGHT
THAT V/ILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
BY AMERICANS -THIS IS THE STORV
OF FOUR OF THOSE TANKS- CHINA
GAL, CECELIA. COMMANDO AND
COLORADO -AMD THEIR COMMANDING
OFFICER, FIRST UEUTENAKVT
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.SHOULD BE IN SOON-
HOPE,
HOPE-
OVER-THERE -= SEE 'EM"?
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BEEN DOIN'ALLTH' DAMAGE
To OUR MENlNTH' HIGGlNS
BOATS !
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(9 .6MMAMDO WENT ACROSS THE ISLANp A-
LONfe DESTROYING TWO FlV/EtNcM JAPAWTt-
30AT GUNS AND F(y£ PlLLl^oXfeS.SHE SUS-
TAINED EIGHTEEN HITS' BEFORE FINALLY BEING
KNOCKED OUT SY A 40'M SHELL WHICH
CUT THE FUEL. LINE AND SET HER AFIRE.
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NEXT MORNING WHEr4 THE CREW
OP CHIN ^ GAL GOT HERON TME BEACH
AND INTO RUNNING SHAPE-, LX BALE
WAS ORDERED TO WORK WITH A BAT-
TALUON WHICH HAD A TINY TOE-HOLD
OH A STRIP OF BEACH. WITH CHINA GAL
HE BLASTED EVERY PILLBOX FOR 600 YDS.
A WHOLE BUNCH
OF JAPS RAN iM
THERE.SIR-O^ER
there to yourH blast
RIGHT I
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HURRY
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AGAIN, BUT
NOT CLOSE
ENOUGH,
WE'LL BE
AROUND TO-
MORROW To
BLAST THEM
OFF THIS"
ISLAND
COME ON, YOO COLORADO
GUVS, THERE'S PLENT-/OF
WORK TO DO. LET^f CrO
GET THOSE JAPS
DAYBREAK CHINA GAL AND COLO-
RADO RUMBLE INTO THE BATTLE THAT
BROKE THE JAPANESE RESISTANCE ON
TARAWA. THE FINAL JAPANESE COUNTER-
ATTACK FINDS THE TANKS IN THE THICKOF
THE FIGHT, KILLING HUNDREDS OF JAPS.
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LEATHERI1ECK LEHS
MARINE CORPS VIEWS AND NEWS
HERE o THERE © EVERYWHERE
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1 — TOUGH NUTS who make the Japs bolt with their gunnery
are these Marine artillerymen on a South Pacific island. (Lt,
Jack Sullivan, at extreme right, happens to be the editor's
brother — which explains this nice publicity!)
3 — PAPPY Boyington is still marked
"missing," but Pacific flying veterans,
haven't yet given up hope. He belongs on
any page grouping of tough h ombres.
2 — QRASSHOPPER plane undergoes minor
repairs on Pel el in. Appeal painted on nose is
natural enough, with so many hardboiled gun-
ners around!
4 — INTESTINAL reference on tank is to
Nipponese interiors; — rwhtch this rugged-looking
crew hopes to knock out all over the South
Pacific. Brrr!
5 — JAPPLANTERS turn their proven talents from ani-
mal to mineral and vegetable as three Navy men attached
to a Marine unit in the South Pacific work their garden
of corn and radishes. Radishes, of course, will thrive.
E — HAPPY ENDING despite unhappy end of plane.
This Vought Corsair's tail was badly shot up and a tire
punctured by Jap bullets, but 1st Lt. Donald L. Balch,
USMC, grins because he brought the ship back at all.
7 FALCON on Marine Lt. S. T. Nichols' finger is a
mascot intended for Marine aviation squadron known as
the "Flying Falcons," of which NichoU is a member.
Perky girt is United Air Lines stewardess. The bird's
name is "Zip."
8 — ROAD-BUILDERS. You'd never guess it, but these
Gyrenes are laying a sandbag road under a rough three-
foot surf so trucks, bulldozers and other heavy engi-
neer's equipment can drive to beach from LSTs offshore.
10 — CAUGHT with their planes down were the Japs
on Tinian. Pre-invasion bombardment wrecked quite a
few on ground, our aircraft got more in the air.
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1 1 — WORRIED was this Tiiiian native after rescue from hill-
side dugout by Marines. From his gesture, he seems to think
he and his family will be killed by the Americans, thus con-
firming atrocity stories told him by the Japs.
12— OBSERVATION POST. From the shelter of a
wrecked Jap bomber, observers of a Naval gunfire
team direct the shelling of Nip positions on a ridge
overlooking vital airfield on Pel el in in Palau Islands,
13— GANDY-DANCERS, Navy Seabees became rail,
roaders to put that little railway into operation again
after air and sea bombardment supporting Marine land-
ing had punished it pretty badly. Can do!
1
1* — PASSENGER Number One on reconstructed
Saipan railroad was Marine Lieutenant General Hol-
land M. (Howlln') Smith, shown here riding minia-
ture train as it chugs out from Charan-Kanoa, bound
for Garapan.
18 — SUGAR LINE. Tiny locomotives were used by Japs
to haul sugar from plantations. Marine* now use them to
tote Saipan supplies.
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SPLIT-SECOND ESCAPES
BY LT. MILBURN McCARTY, JR., USMC
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER. USMC
WALKING up a muddy
trail during the early
fighting on Bougainville
Island, in the Solomons, I came
across a Marine Raider friend
of mine — Charles W. Ogden, a
young sergeant from Washing-
ton, D. C. Ogden was holding his
camouflaged helmet in his hands,
and inspecting it with a look of
amazement. There was a bullet
hole in front of the helmet, and
another one on the left side.
"Pretty close, that one," he
said.
The bullet had hit Ogden as
he was diving for a foxhole dur-
ing an exchange with the Japs.
It entered the helmet just above
Odgen's forehead, tore up the
inside lining as it circled his
head, and made the second hole
as it came out above his left ear.
"And it never touched a hair
on my head," he added in-
credulously.
Split-second escapes from
death are frequent occurrences
for American servicemen now
fighting on the scattered fronts
of World War II. For every man
actually hit, there are usually a
dozen others who go unharmed
only because a bullet or a piece
of shrapnel misses them by a
hair's breadth. When we ran
ashore at Bougainville against
Japanese fire there were a num-
ber of my buddies who experi-
enced such narrow and harrow-
ing escapes.
Shortly after landing, Platoon
Sergeant "Red" Coburn, a husky
football player and rig-builder
from Big Spring, Texas, had his
M-l rifle knocked out of his
hand by an enemy bullet. The
impact tore a piece .out of the
stock, but the rifle still worked,
and Coburn continued to use it
for the rest of the day. An inch
higher or lower, and the bullet
would have got Coburn in the
chest.
About this same time, Phar-
macist's Mate Manuel M. Maya,
Jr., was running up to the front
to help a man already wounded.
A sniper's shot rang out, and the
bullet caught Maya in the tem-
ple. It was coming from directly
ahead, and after skidding under
Maya's skin for about three
inches, it came out behind his
ear. Maya stooped beside a tree
to daub a little iodine on the
wound, and then continued with
his work.
"It didn't even give me a head-
ache," he told me later. But had
the bullet been an inch further
to the right it would have got
Maya right in the eye.
Marine Corporal Harvey L. Beasley,
of Monticello, Florida, considers him-
self pretty lucky as he examines shrap-
nel hole in trousers. One reason Beas-
ley considers himself so lucky is be-
cause he wasn't wearing the trousers
when the shrapnel struck 1
Landing just behind the
Marines at Bougainville were
the competent Navy Seabees,
who began clearing the jungle
and building roads almost as
soon as they stepped on the
beach. One of these Seabees, a
six-foot-four contractor from Los
Angeles, named Orville P. Mc-
Comas, drove his bulldozer into
a jungle clearing at the front.
As he did so a Jap began firing
at him. McComas threw the bull-
dozer in reverse, trying to get
back into the protection of the
jungle foliage. But the bull-
dozer wasn't going fast enough,
for the Jap found the range and
started bouncing lead off the
engine hood.
McComas, however, was
thinking faster than the Jap was
shooting. He jumped out of the
bulldozer, leaving it in gear, and
ran back to the jungle coverage
before' the Jap got him. As the
bulldozer plowed back through,
driverless, McComas jumped on
again, thus saving not only his
own life but his favorite bull-
dozer as well.
Another case where fast think-
ing turned sure death into a
split-second escape was the ex-
perience of Platoon Sergeant
William Wilson. Wilson was
charging a retreating Jap during
the Cape Torokina fighting on
Bougainville when his rifle
jammed. Had Wilson hesitated,
the Jap would probably have
turned and shot him dead. But
Wilson kept charging, dropping
his useless rifle and pulling out
his knife as he jumped for the
Jap's back. Riding astride the
Jap, Wilson slashed his throat,
and the Jap fell dead between
Wilson's legs.
Joseph R. Wooldbridge, a
Navy corpsman attached to the
Marines, got himself involved in
a very unusual close call by dis-
obeying orders, but in doing so
he became a hero. Wooldbridge
was at the Bougainville front
one night when Japs began in-
filtrating through our lines. Be-
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fore midnight, some of these
Japs fell upon three Marines in
a foxhole some 20 yards from
the place where Wooldbridge
was dug in for the night. Excited
shooting, clashing of knives, and
battle screams came from the
foxhole. This was followed in a
few moments by the moans of
wounded Marines.
The cries for help were heard
all over the area, but no one was
supposed to stir from his foxhole.
One order that night" was for
every Marine to stay in his fox-
hole. Another order was to shoot
anything prowling about. If you
climbed out of your hole, it was
a toss-up whether a Jap or a
Marine would shoot you first.
But when Wooldbridge heard
his wounded buddies crying for
help he disregarded the orders.
Grabbing his corpsman's bag in
one hand and a knife in the
other, he crawled the 20 yards
to the stricken foxhole. It was
inky dark, and another of the
possible dangers was falling into .
a Marine's foxhole and being
knifed for a Jap. But Woold-
bridge got there. By touch alone
he located the wounds, stopped
the bleeding, and bandaged the
three men. Then he faced the
Jap lines and guarded his friends
the rest of the night.
Although a close call in com-
bat is ordinarily nothing to laugh
at, situations sometimes arise
which provide humorous side-
lights to the otherwise serious
business of shooting and getting
shot. One man I knew at Bou-
gainville, for instance, had a
Japanese artillery shell land
right between his legs — and
NOT explode. The Marine, Pri-
vate First Class Herman S. Led-
better, was sitting in his foxhole
at the time.
"This shell looked about 15
inches long, but I sure didn*t
wait to measure it," Ledbetter
said. "When I stopped running
I guess I was about 500 yards
from that foxhole!"
One of the strangest close calls
was experienced by a 19-year-
old Marine who could blow
smoke through a wound in his
cheek. His name was Lonnie J.
Griffin, a private first class from
McGehee, Ark, The doctors,
busy with more serious cases,
hadn't gotten around to sewing
up Lonnie's wound when I saw
him.
"There was a lot going on
when I got hit," he explained,
"and I didn't pay much atten-
tion -to it until a corpsman came
up with 'a bandage. Then I
found out I had a hole right
through the left side of my
mouth. There was just one hole,
so we wondered what happened
to the bullet. Couldn't find it
anywhere. Then I remembered
I was yelling at the Japs when
I got hit. So I figured the bullet
went in my cheek, then came
right out my mouth. It was one
time when talking paid."
Lonnie started blowing smoke
out the wound purely by acci-
dent. He was smoking a ciga-
rette when a fellow patient sud-
denly stared at him, then ex-
plained: "My God, smoke's
coming out of your wound!"
Lonnie experimented, and,
sure enough, found he could
blow smoke through the hole
just as well as out his mouth.
The wound never pained him,
either, he said.
He gave a demonstration for
me. "I've been trying rings," he
said. "But the bullet went in at
an angle, and the hole isn't quite
the right shape to make rings."
Of all the near escapes I wit-
nessed there was none more
spectacular than that of Tony
Martin, a Marine private first
class who used to be a pro-
fessional boxer around Los
Angeles. One night on Bougain-
ville the Japs treated us to an
unusually heavy bombing at-
tack. When I was getting up the
next morning I heard Tony yell-
ing from his foxhole, about 75
yards away.
"I ran over with several other
men, and Tony explained to us
excitedly: "There was one
'WHOOOOOOOOOOSH' of a
falling bomb that paralyzed my
ear drums. Then something
seemed to push up the bottom of
my foxhole. I knew it was
mighty, mighty close. But noth-
ing else happened, so I finally
went back to sleep. Then when
I crawl out this morning here's
what I find."
Tony pointed with a shaking
finger to the fin of an unexploded
Jap bomb sticking out the very
rim of his foxhole. The bomb
had hit less than two feet from
Tony's head, and, plowing diag-
onally under the foxhole,- the
nose of the bomb had come to
rest just beneath the place where
Tony's stomach was.
"Thanks to some dumb guy
back in Japan for making a dud,"
Tony said with the most genuine
sigh of relief I have ever seen.
WHO GOES THERE . . . ?
IN the last issue of this magazine, we tan the photograph which we are
reprinting below, showing Marines fighting a fuel dump fire on Puruata
Island. Reader Wilton Dietrich of West Allis, Wisconsin, called our atten-
tion to something we had overlooked — the ghostly face in the smoke. • . .
44
VANGUARD OF DOOM
These Marines (of the Second Division) battled savage resistance for two weeks, but on July 1 they captured the
heights above Garapan ,and two days later drove through the municipal center. The picture below shows two of the Devil-
dogs racing amid rubble and fire in the first house-to-house combat of their war against Japan.
STUBBORN Nips, as
usual, held out to ' their
bitter end on Saipan, and
the Marines had to pry
and blast the tenacious
little fanatics from count-
less holes and crannies. In
the picture to the right,
Marine Gunnery Sergeant
B. L. Blanchard, of El-
don, Iowa, is using some
powerful persuasion in
the form of a hand gren-
ade to coax several Sham-
bo snipers out of a cave in
the northern part of the
island.
BOOMERANG was this captured
Jap mountain gun when versatile
Marines put it to use against its
original owners during the attack
on Garapan.
Saipan souvenirs have been the best yet, and these
Marines {below) boast the largest Jap flag in captivity
— eleven feet wide and seventeen feet long.
Official Count Guam Photo
Here a Jap rides a Marine for a change
in bore), as an unusually friendly Nipponese boy
makes friends with a grinning Leatherneck.
A bit of a mess is this Jap tank demolished by artillery
fire. Part of the debris is a dead Nip crew-member,
shattered like his erstwhile vehicle.
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MARJNF
DIV.
SMPAN
REST PERIOD was
brief for these
tired and weary men
of the Second Marine
Division, veterans of
Guadalcanal and Ta-
rawa, shown here as
they move to the rear
for time out after
twenty days of slug-
ging the Japs on Sai-
pan. They were soon
back in action, to re-
pulse the final suicide
charge of the Nips
and to secure the last
two miles of the
island's northern tip.
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NEXT TO CHOW, mail has priority.
Marine Post Office established in the ruins
in Charan-Kanoa before battle smoke has
Here is a
of a house
cleared.
INCREDIBLE to this 61-year-old Chamorro woman on
Saipan are photographs shown to her by T/Sgt. Don
Brown, Marine band member from Vallejo, California.
TIPSY NIPSY on way to internment.
This Jap civilian had been withstand-
ing rigors of war with" a botde of sakr,
was slightly squiffed when captured.
WAR'S EBB, on Saipan as everywhere else, leaves bewildered, uncer-
tain women and children watching the strange doings of the conqueror.
These people are a mixture of Koreans, Chatnorros, and some Japanese.
SEAG0II1G BATHTUB
THAT'S what deep-water men called the LCI — until they discovered she
was a tub with a terrific punch. At Guam the LCI (Landing Craft In-
fantry) added a G to her name — G for Gunboat. A little craft, doing a
big job in the Pacific, it U the fate of the LCI always to be the smallest,
hence the most expendable ship around. Enroute to invasion, the LCIs
screen the larger vessels and, in case of attack, move into position to take
torpedoes aimed at troop-carriers . . ■
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1 — Enroute to Guam, an LCI-G,
loaded from bow to stern with am-
munition, but with only a small
crew aboard, did put herself in the
way of a Jap torpedo which was
racing for a sure hit on a Marine-
packed LST, Many lives were saved
by this heroic action of the little
craft and its gallant crew.
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2 — At Guam, several days before the actual
t invasion, jhe LCI-Gs shoved their stubby noses
to the edge of the reef and plastered the Jap-
held beach with rockets, doing a real bang-up
job . ". .
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3 — One LCI skipper figured his men fired 1000 rockets, 5000
rounds of 40 mm. and 20,000 rounds of 20 mm. Aboard an-
other, gun crews sprayed the tubes of the 40 mm. guns to cool
the
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6 — After the battle for
Guam was in the hands of
the infantry, the LCIs still
stayed on. They became tow
ships, mail boats and hos-
pital ships, sending rubber
boats through the surf to
pick up wounded men and
bring them to safety . - .
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SOUTH PACIFIC
SERENADE
WHEN the special events programs dis-
appeared from the commercial net-
works after Pearl Harbor, they were not a
war casualty; instead, they have themselves
gone to war with the Marines and are now
known as Battle Broadcasting. A small
group of Marines assigned to this work
make instantaneous electrical transcriptions
of on-t he-scene accounts of battle action as
described by the participants, and the tran-
scriptions are flown to the United States for
broadcast over the nation's networks to all
the folks at home.
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TUT ORE unusual is the recording ses-
* "* sion pictured at the top of the
page. Here natives of a South Pacific
island serenade United States listen-
ers via Battle Broadcasting equipment.
The man at the microphone is Marine
Sergeant James Hardin, Jr., a USMC
Radio Correspondent from Marietta,
Ga. Watching Hardin act as master
of ceremonies, is Leslie F. Gill, of
Melbourne, Australia, United States
liaison officer to the natives-
Much hilarity, some bewilderment
and a dash of suspicion are exhibited
by the natives in the picture below as
they listen to their own voices played
back at them from the transcription.
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Jut* to Get Acquainted We Will Beautifully Enlarge rear
favorite Snapshot, Photo, Kodak Picture, Print or Negative
to 5x7 Inches If You Enclose the Coupon
end a 3 Cent Stamp tor Return Mailing)
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ure so true to life, just the way they looked STAfVf P
when the pictures were taken, so we went you to- ^^
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tend to DEAN STUDIOS, Dept
nci, Iowa,
ith your favorite snapshot
1149,
State.
Color of Hair
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PENDANT HEART DEBIQ
What makes both the ring and the
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are beautifully embossed with the very newest ""Forget-
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arrival. feEND HO MONEY *— -
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*ther photo folder. (Qjim-s with pictures rif two
•inular Movie .Stars. I
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I want to take advantage of your special bargain offer.
Please send me the following:
□ Estra Wide Band Sler- i — i Matching Sterling Sil-
ling, Silver "Forget- Me- I — I Tor Pendant Heart Ear-
Not Nino ring*
1 understand 1 «m return tn>- order within 10 days for
any miMi and yon will refund promptly.
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original "SwIm" Weatlfo
which actually telltyou the
in advance. Beware of IminUoa*.
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Why pay 55 or Sift for a barometer when you c;!n
predict [he wea titer yourself, ar home, 8 to 24 hoi ra
in advance* with this accurate, Inexpensive Weatfc -r
lloune forecaster? It's made like a little Swiss <
with a thatched green r<mf and ttmall ftrcen ahuttei
aide the house iti an old witch and a little boy an^l i*V
Wln-n the weather's Kolnji t" Ik 1 fine, the little 1)
itirl come out in front. Hut when bad weather is on 1 1
th,- old witch makes an appearance. There is an ■-
read thermometer on the. front of the cottage tlu;
you the exact temperature!
You can depend on knowing the condition of the weather
eight to twenty-four hours in advance with this Weather !'
made in U. S. A. . . . . Everyone — business men. house wives, ttw
farmers, school children, laborers, doctor*, lawyers uiinkters, elirti
colleges can now predict the weather iti advance. Here Is positivelv the
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Measlier House within JU dayi and act you* money back promptly.
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n reliable indication of wli.il the wearher will be. Wuh the "5w1i*" Wear
thermometer you have an Investment in comfort and convenience for :■ .
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Chlcajo, llllnelt
Send it once (1) "Swiss" WVather House and Fr« Good Luck Loaf. On jr-
riv'al, t will |Kiy pOntman St ,69 plus postage with the understand ing; that the
Weather House i* ^uarantegd to work accurately. Also I can return the
weather house for any reason within 10 days and get mv nu>nev back
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