Show NAZIS LEAVE EXPLOSIVE SOUVENIRS BEHIND soldiers soldier who pick up attractive looking objects on the battlefield never make the same mistake twice this grim precept of war Is being strongly emphasized reemphasized re in the training of our troops by order of gen lesley J mcnair command commack I 1 ing general of army ground forces the news that booby traps were being employed extensively by the nemy enemy in north africa came as no surprise to army for intensive training in booby trap detection and destruction has been part ol of the basic training program for many months however the army is making sure that every specific lesson learned in the front lines Is being hammered home in training booby traps by the thousand and in many different forms are being left behind by the retreating germans and are being dropped from enemy planes our own they are usually in the form of fountain pens watches attractively colored balls tat fat wallets and similar objects no possibility is overlooked by the enemy even a whistle was found to contain a booby trap when the tha whistle is blown the vibrating pek hits the striker causing the explosion the small charge Is in the body of the whistle and Is exploded by a striker and cap |