Ship's Mascot Hits an Invasion Beach. "Bunky," Mascot of a Coast Guard-manned Assault Transport, follows his shipmates to the beach in the invasion of Aitape in the Hollandia area of Dutch New Guinea. "Bunky," who likes to bark fiercely at Japs, takes his beachheads in stride. He is shown with a pal, Coast Guardsman Kerit C. Clum, seaman second class, of Baltimore, Ohio.

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Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg