Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 4 | Officers Discover Live Bullets with Blanks for Sham Battle |

Type	issue
Date	1941-01-15
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Officers Discover Live Bullets with Blanks for Sham Battle
Type	article
Date	1941-01-15
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	4
OCR Text	Show Officers Discover Live Bullets With Blanks for Sham Battle The guard cartridges, not used at Fort Dix, are similar in appearance to a blank, but contain lead slugs in place of paper wadding to seal the charge. They are ordinarily issued to soldiers ' on sentry duty. FORT DIX, N. J., Jan. 15 ( Post authorities sought Wednesday to determine how deadly cartridges had been issued is-sued to members of the Seventy-first infantry, from New York, for a night-time sham battle. Brigadier General Ralph K. Henderson, acting Forty-fourth division and Fort Dix commander, com-mander, revealed Tuesday night that lead-tipped "guard cartridges" car-tridges" had been found in ammunition am-munition issued for a tactical problem the preceding evening. The ammunition was. quickly recalled and the maneuvers proceeded without the firing of a shot. "An investigation of the matter mat-ter is being conducted," Robertson Robert-son disclosed.
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