1944/04/08 -- Cover design "April Showers" by Alex Ross

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
4 SHORT STORIES:

  • "Three-Day Pass" by Frank Bunce and illustrated by George Withers
  • "Success Story" by Murray Hoyt and illustrated by John F. Gould
  • "A Medal for Mary" by Christine Tapley and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • "Alexander Botts Will Fix Everything" by William Hazlett Upson
  • 8 ARTICLES:

  • The Fourth Term's Hair Shirt by Forrest Davis speculates on Senator Harry F. Byrd running for President as a third-party candidate should FDR run again
  • I Escape From the Island of Terror by Lance Bombardier Sidney Robinson as told to Henry Brandon
  • Week-End Rancher by Arnold Nicholson
  • The Indestructible Oliver L. Parks by Jack Alexander
  • How Naples Was Raised from the Dead by Allen Raymond and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • Admiral of the Reopened Sea by Joseph Driscoll
  • Letter from Hollywood -- 10th of a Series of Hollywood Vignettes -- by Pete Martin is about Loren Holmes
  • Beyond the Call of Duty -- Anonymous
  • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Fair Stood the Wind for France -- part 4 of 8 -- by H.E. Bates and illustrated by George Hughes
  • "Plunder" -- Part 6 of 8 -- by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials