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Show ' " ! ' Native Chief Takes to Air 3 ., n ., -WVW,T,,,S"S ' - " ? , - x - . , ; - & IV"'- tV L j (U. S. Marine Corps Photos) Chief Mok, Micronesian head man of a Pacific island, has much to tell his people, for he recently had an airplane ride. The chief looks slightly apprehensive appre-hensive as a parachute is fitted to him by Marine Pfc. Raymond N. Bleser of Janesville, Wis. Looking- on is Marine Maj. Me- nard Doswcll, III, of Santa Bar- j bara, Cal., commanding officer of the "Red Devil" Torpedo Bomber Squadron, who piloted the plane in which the chief was a passenger. In the lower photo. Chief Mok's relief was evident after the plane returned to the field and the radio gunner's gun-ner's compartment door was swung open. The chief is wearing wear-ing Marine clothing which replaced re-placed his usual lap-lap, the nativa wran-arntinrj clri |