THE LEATHERNECK

Lou Diamond issue

August 1943

VG+. Wartime Lou Diamond issue. Uncommonly nice condition. No tears or chips, a tight clean copy. 8x11. Heavily illustrated throughout with b&w photos. Color title headings. Color ads on covers, inside & out. (Washington DC: Leatherneck Association, 1943). 72 pages.

CONTENTS:

~~ Straight Dope (humor)
~~ Carry On (letters).
~~ Marines Land Again (New Georgia)
~~ Gizmo and Eightball (cartoon) ~~ Diamond in the Rough (article about Lou Diamond).
~~ 'Meet Your Marine Corps: Sea School USMC'
~~ Plane Overboard! (pictorial: F4F Grumman goes overboard from the Carrier Altamaha)
~~ Padre of the Paramarines. (article)
~~ Armor Can Save Lives. (pictorial of WWI soldiers in armor)
~~ Marine Personalities (sketches of BrigGen Clifton Cates and SgtMaj Albert Maltz).
~~ Here and There (pictorial)
~~ Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau (humor)
~~ The Marine Who Hated to Get Up (fiction)
~~ Occupation of Russell Isles (pictorial)
~~ The Pin-up Boys Present (pictorial: Miss Anne Rutherford).
~~ At Ease (entertainments)
~~ His Majesties Jollies (article about British Royal Marines).
~~ Gyrene Gyngles.
~~ We the Marines (pictorial).
~~ Marines Down Under (article).
~~ Fire Control (article)
~~ London Detail (article).
~~ Marines in the News (pictorial).
~~ Sports
~~ Short Shorts on Marines.
~~ Detachments.
~~ Field Reports
~~ Marines Run Japs Off Cliffs (article about Japanese suicides on New Georgia)
~~ Casualties. (List of latest Missing and Dead from the South Pacific).
~~ Dis-missed (what to expect if you are court martialled).


SCARCE, especially in this condition.

$75.00