Artillery Range "Suicide Squad" Blasts "Duds"
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Risking their lives daily tracking down and blowing up unexploded shells on the artillery range at Fort Benning, Ga., is the work of Lieut. Jesse D. Wadsworth and his “suicide squad” of six men. These unsung heroes ride out each morning in search of faulty shells, and whenever one is found they go into actioh. Jn preparing the “duds” for explosion, the men carefully dig up the ground around the shell, place dynamite in the hole, pack it with loose earth, and attach fuses to the dynamite. When all is in readiness, they return to the truck and start the engine, as a rule leaving Lieut. Wadsworth to light the fuses and make a dash for the truck. The fuses take 15 minutes to burn, but in this hazardous task anything can happen. The expansion program at Fort Benning has uncovered hundreds of these unexploded shells, some of which have lain as long as 15 years in remote parts of the artillery reservation.
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- Artillery Range "Suicide Squad" Blasts "Duds"
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- Artillery Range "Suicide Squad" Blasts "Duds"
- Lingua
- eng
- Copertura temporale
- World War II
- Data di rilascio
- 1941-06
- pagine
- 80
- Diritti
- Public Domain (Google digitized)
- Sorgente
- Google books
- Archived by
- Enrico Saonara
- Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
- Copertura territoriale
- United States of America
