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Show U. S. Learns Jungle Warfare Snakebite antidote, compasses, mosquito netting and machetes are part of the regular equipment of American soldiers now receiving training in jungle fighting in the Caribbean area. To reach their objectives, jungle fighters must climb and descend mountains, hack their way through jungle growth, traverse swamps and cross rivers. A large body of men carry a good deal of equipment one soldier a rope, another dynamite, others gasoline and a stove for smokeless cooking; others additional medical supplies and weapons. Soldiers in the Caribbean area learn to swim rivers with their rifles over their heads and know the trick of bending over, when they have reached the opposite bank, to let the water run out of their packs. In low, swampy places and when crossing streams they must be on the watch for a wall of water which might come at them because of a cloudburst high in the mountains above them, sweeping rocks and trees with it. ' Food is a problem in the jungle, for everything molds, and tin cans in most cases are too heavy to carry. The soldier must learn to live off the jungle as far as possible on fruits or on the meat of canejos, tapirs, snakes and monkeys He learns that iguanas are a delicacy. Men in training are never sept on a mission alone; two men must always be together. In actual combat, however, these men will be putting to use all they have learned in order to out-infiltra- te and outfight the Japs. Presented here is a series of jungle warfare training pictures taken by the U. S. Army Signal Corps in remote outposts manned by U. S. troops somewhere in the Caribbean area. The first 100 raids over Europe by U. S. Flying Fortresses were made without the loss of a single plane. Here Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of the V. S. army air forces in the European theater of war, is shown (left) with Air Marshal Richard Peck, assistant chief of the RAF, in London. in joint attacks on enemy terriThey announced plans for air Shortly after taking oath as ninth governor of Hawaii, Judge Ingram M. Stainbeck posed for this picture at the executive mansion in Honolulu. He succeeded Governor Joseph Poindexter as executive of this vital Pacific outpost. tory and Germany. Tinless Tin Can Demonstration All Roads Lead to . . A group of typical fighting men who are manning our Caribbean defenses are shown equipped with modern Garand rifles and wearing mosquito helmets. Senator Guy M. Gillette (right), chairman of special committee on container utilization of farm crops, is shown the new fiber, plastic-line- d invented by Albert Robbins, which, it is hoped, will be an acceptable substitute for the tin can. R. S. McMillan (left), president of a Los Angeles petroleum company, plans to use the container for lubricating oil. Here you see Australian troops looking over a signpost erected at a military training ground, somewhere in Australia. Every section of the world is represented here. The Better Ole Eyes on Solomons Heavy caliber machine gun ready for action and manned by experts. Soldiers must undergo rigorous training to cope with the jungle. They can be chilled when, This soundphoto, approved by the U. S. navy, shows Rear Admiral North Africa sits R. K. Turner, who commanded the A war correspondent who is covering the scrap in out his "piece.' There U. S. transport forces during the at his desk in a slit trench in the desert batting of no clatter teletypes, and life would offensive in the Solomons, aboard is no city editor to bawl him out, bombers and strafing his flagship during an early phase fraud if it werent for the shells, dive cold at night and the of the successful operations against the planesf not 0 mentfonthe heat in the daytime, the Jap invaders. famine. .continuous water after hacking their way through the jungle, they emerge into a clearing where air is stirring. Left: Troopers hack their way, through deep jungle growths with a bush knife? J |