SOLOMON ISLANDS CAMPAIGN.
Seabees work on a tough stretch of Coral on Green Island, Solomons, photographed received 1 June 1944. National Museum of U.S. Navy.
"JAPO" DESERTS THE JAPANESE IN THE MARSHALLS
Two sets of brothers, holding a reunion aboard a Coast Guard-manned assault transport at Guadalcanal, meet "Japo," the famed chicken who deserted the Japanese and came over to the American invaders in the conquest of the Marshalls. "Japo" found the fire too hot. She suddenly ran out from a bomb blasted island, fluttered cackling up the ramp of a landing barge and leaped into the arms of the boat crew. Since that day Japo has been given the run of the transport and seems destined to escape the stew pot. The brothers, meeting on a gun platform, are (left to right): Major Lyle J. Robertson, U. S. Army Air Forces; and Coast Guardsman M. T. Robertson, motor machinist's mate second class, both from Carbondale, Illinois; Coast Guard Lieutenant (j.g.) Norman F. Heydinger, and Staff Sergt. E. R. Heydinger, U. S. Army Air Forces, both from Toledo, Ohio.
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