Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the winter, with quick, massed attack impossible, the porcupines were very hard to take and, as long as they resisted, Russian advances around or between them were vulnerable. The Russians found that guerrilla warfare between the quills of the porcupine was the best striking method. Russian communiqués, with nice understatement, referred to the quills as "inhabited localities...
Sinister Shadow. The guerrilla should wear clothes of neutral color, should festoon himself with twigs, barks, leaves for camouflage. He may signal his colleagues with bird whistles, remembering always to use the calls of birds in season. He never raises his face to airplanes, because a white face may be detected from...
Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...
...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
...sand in it. Besides blankets, extra socks, binoculars, rifles, burnt cork to blacken the face, etc., an important part of the equipment is 25 to 30 yards of fishline. This has many uses: to tie up an enemy, to set off a booby trap. The booby trap is a guerrilla's stock in trade. "You can exercise your schoolboy malice and ingenuity," suggests Mr. Levy. "Hang Mills bombs on doors so that they explode when the doors are opened. Put one in the refrigerator. . . ." In Tillamook, Ore., last week, residents were organizing a Guerrilla Club. Chief organizer: Stewart...