War Strikes the Innocent. From a Coast Guard-manned assault transport on a visit to a native village in the Admiralty Islands, Coast Guard Lieutenant Irving Egan comes upon this pathetic native baby, his leg shattered by a Jap bomb fragment. Lieutenant Egan stops and attempts to comfort the child, showing the consideration that has won native friendship for the Americans. Doctors of the invasion force had placed the baby's leg in a cast. Lieutenant Egan lives in New London, Conn.

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Keywords: 17-a2-199, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg