Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, February 1944, Number 323

• Your Rights and Benefits as a Veteran: New Mustering Out Pay Is Just One of Many Things That Show People at Home Aren't Forgetting You!

  • How About That Postwar Job? Here Are Some Instances Where Veterans Get Top Priority

  • Families of Personnel Killed in War Get Swift Financial Aid

• Amphibs to Fore in '44: 80,000 LCs Planned as WPB Gives Schedule Highest War Priority; Personnel to Expand

• Your Income Tax: Service Personnel Given Special Consideration in Making 15 March Return

  • Income Taxes: How to Fill Out the Short Form

• Helldiver: The Navy's New Dive Bomber Makes Debut In Smash at Rabaul

• When the Nazis Invaded the Western Hemisphere: How the Coast Guard and Army Rooted Out Germans in Greenland

• Ordnance: It's Everything You Throw at the Enemy and Everything to Stop What He Throws at You

• Don't Shoot the Censor! It's His Job to Keep You From Risking Your Own Neck—And He's Smarter Than You May Think

  • How to Duck the Censor

  • Why Censors Laugh Last

  • If You Don't Write About These Things… Your Letter Will Get This Decoration [Passed by Naval Censor]

• Can Do, Will Do—DID! That's Watchword of Seabees, 2 Years Old and 262,000 Strong

• Survival in the South Seas: The Story of a Naval Aviator's 20 Days on a Raft, With Notes by BuM&S on What He Did to Keep Himself Alive

• Editorial: Will We Be Cared For?

• Letters to the Editor

• The Month's News: Period of 21 December through 20 January

  • The War

  • Casualty Figures

  • Famous Phrases

  • Navy News

  • The Marines Get Their First Full General

  • Home Front

  • Armed Guard Crews Down 11 Nazi Planes

• The War at Sea: United States Navy Communiqués and Pertinent Excerpts of Other Reports (Official Reports: 21 December through 20 January)

• Training Tip: Tricks That May Save Lives

• How It Was Done at Tarawa: Attackers Planned Well, Came Armed for a Tough Fight—and Were Willing to Pay the Necessary Price for Victory by Maj. George Fielding Eliot

  • The Mission

  • The Objective

  • The Enemy Forces and Defenses

  • The Attacking Forces

  • The Plan of Attack

  • The Attack (First Day)

  • The Attack (Second Day)

  • The Lessons of Tarawa

• Decorations and Citations

  • LST Officer Wins Medal of Honor for Preventing Explosion

  • Navy Cross Awards

  • Distinguished Service Medal Awards

  • Legion of Merit Awards

  • Silver Star Medal Awards

  • Distinguished Flying Cross Awards

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal Awards

  • Air Medal Awards

• What is Your Naval I.Q.?

• BuPers Bulletin Board

  • How and When You May Vote (III)

  • Rate Reduced for Hospitalization of Naval Dependents

  • Enlisted Personnel May be Interchanged Between Shore, Sea

  • BCD's [Bad Conduct Discharge] Bar Men From Merchant Marine

  • Navy Adopting New Pay System

  • Personnel Overseas Can Send Gifts Home

  • VFW Badge Not Worn With Official Ribbons

  • Commendation Ribbon Authorized by SecNav

  • Dependents' Travel Regulations Changed

  • Why It's Better to Use V-Mail Than Air Mail

  • Special Clothing Allowance Revised

  • Music Contest Open to Servicemen

  • WR [Women's Reserve] Dependents Entitled to Transportation

  • Complete Information Necessary on Requests for Submarine Duty

  • Maternity and Infant Care Continued, After Being Started

  • Lightweight Magazines for Bulk Distribution Only

  • Marine Corps Gazette Starts Overseas Edition

  • Qualifications for New Ratings are Published

  • Off-Duty Education Given Recognition

  • Beneficiary Slips Required of Certain Aviation Cadets

• Index for February 1944

Specifications

• 76 pages

• 78 photos

• 134 illustrations

• 12 maps