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German troops, poised along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the...
In Italy: "All advances are necessarily slow because there are mines, mines and more mines, and quantities of booby traps," said the Army's Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges.
Last week at Camp Swift, Tex., the traveling faculty of the Engineers' special school of mines was giving its 14th intensive course in mines, booby traps and how to fool them. The students: 200 officers of other combatant branches, who will pass on to their own troops the Army...
Jokesmith's Art. In the training classes, mines and traps are mixed with a practical joker's devilish wit. Students quickly learn to be suspicious as the giant firecrackers explode when a truck is started, or a tool lifted. Students cannot be too suspicious for their own future...
One classic example of German ingenuity now taught the troops is the mine which is itself mined. To Tellers the Nazis attached delayed-action booby traps set to explode ten minutes after the Teller was dug up.