A later press clipping reports him in the Navy’s 52nd Defense Battalion in the Marshall Islands in World War II, performing for front line troops under “impossible conditions.”Tops, Vol 8 & 9, Sep. 1978, p. 8 He devised a way to produce a large pig (named Tojo) from thin air, which the natives eventually stole and ate.military newspaper clipping, undated, & Tops The pig trick evolved into his trademark “giant rabbit production.”
