Training in hand to hand struggle · Wars of Wonders

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Training in hand to hand struggle

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en Training

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Title: Cannon may kill at ranges of five and ten miles; machine guns may fire six hundred shots in one minute; but the hand to hand struggle still lives in modern war—and our boys must be masters of the art

Caption 1: Jiu-jitsu wrestling methods are introduced in warding off a bayonet attack. While these boys are here fighting as friends, there is a background picture in their minds which adds zest and "pep" to their struggle

Caption 2: Trying to disarm and disable his opponent by throwing him with a neck hold. What these lads must face "over there" lends realism to their work

Caption 3: A good grip on a man's toe is by no means a hold to be "sneezed" at. These two troopers are doing strenuous work—offensive as well as defensive

Caption 4: No, they are not training to become baseball pitchers! They are trying to toss cement balls into an enemy trench indicated by chalk lines. When they get across the ocean they will use deadlier missiles calculated to put a permanent quietus on some of their adversaries. This squad is the "kindergarten" class in bomb-throwing

Caption 5: The deadly grip this man has upon his
adversary may well prove the undoing of a Boche who is unversed in the gentle art of self-defense as taught by the modern school of Japan and adopted by our "Sammies"

Caption 6: A strangle hold calculated to break an adversary's neck and prevent him from driving home that deadly bayonet. There is earnestness in the face of the unarmed fighter. You can see that his whole soul is in his work, for success or failure may mean all the difference between life and death to him some day and to the Boche who opposes him

Caption 7: Picking up a man lying prone on the ground and running with him on your back for fifty yards is not as easy as it looks to these huskies. It is all in the day's work for the training "Sammies." One man picks up the "wounded comrade" and runs with him for that distance, when he deposits him on the ground. Another make, the return trip