Photo #: NH 97165
"Miss Hap" in Korea
"Substitute -- Accepting her fate as an orphan of war, 'Miss
Hap' a two-week old Korean kitten, chows down on canned milk,
piped to her by medicine dropper with the help of Marine Sergeant
Frank Praytor ... The Marine adopted the kitten after its mother
was killed by a mortar barrage near Bunker Hill. The name, Miss
Hap, Sergeant Praytor explained, was given to the kitten 'because
she was born at the wrong place at the wrong time'." (Quoted
from original caption)
Photographed by SSgt. Martin J. Riley.
Print is undated. It was included in the February 1953 "All
Hands" magazine illustrations folder.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the "All
Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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