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Show Yen for Marines on Okinawa . : " k iVi N a First payday for troops on Okinawa was for Leathernecks of the Second Marine Air Wing. They were paid, for the first time in the Pacific, in the sen and yen of military invasion currency. At the left, Technical Sgt. Carl Micharlsen, Jr., cf Astoria, Long Island, N. Y., watches the sen and yen being counted out by Warrant Officer Donald E. Kent of Syracuse, N. Y., who is in charge cf Second Wing's enlisted pay accounts. In the "receiving line," left to right, are Sgt. t'Walter B. Woods of Philadelphia, Pa., Corp. Daniel J. McCafcc of Allentown, Pa., and Pfc. William K. Gibson Of Cleveland, Ohio. (U. S. Marine Corps Phato) |