Army & Navy: Jacfu on the Railroad

On the railroad between Tientsin and Chinwangtao, four hours a day, Pfc. John J. Janes of the U.S. Marines stands guard at "Bridge 21." A husky young veteran from Grafton, W.Va., wounded at Okinawa, Janes is one of 47,000 marines now on duty in China. Like most of them, he is homesick and his morale is low—for a marine, very low.

"What I want," Janes told TIME Correspondent William P. Gray in the bare, inhospitable, sandbagged hut he shares with 18 other marines, "is an explanation of what I'm doing here. Then I'll sleep better. . . . We're buttering somebody's bread,...

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