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Show I , i U U.S'Scouts U.SScouts USScouts . . S . . 'Scouts Scouts ' ' and Raiders Raiders'Make RaidersMake ' Make Warfare Narfare HistorySpecialists History . 0/ 0 ' / 0Specialists Specialists in Guerilla Tactics PracticeBloodless PracticeBloodless Practice PracticeBloodless Bloodless Bloodless Raids in Preparation forBig forBig for Big Battle to Come . I r rBy By BAUKHAGE BAUKHAGENews BAUKHAGENew News New . Analyst lIlllyd and Commentator Commentalor WNTJ WNU WNV Service Union TrU5 Trust BuDding Building BuDdingWashington BuildingWashington BuUdlaiWashington ( Washington D CHaJt.who C"Haltwho C C'Halt -HaJt-.who HaJt.who HaJt .who who "Halt-who "Halt Halt ' - " 'Halt Halt - . - mhos a , there Ihere- Ihere IhereThis there'This'sentence thereThissentence ? 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Private Pnvate first class James Jameso Jame0 o Fallon Fallen Fallon , . , Serial Mo No 3030496Take 3030496Take 3030496 3030496Take Take him Jum away said the thecolonel thecolonel thicolonel colonel finally ' 'he he ' can stay in the theguardhouse theguardbous thiguardhouse guardhouse- guardhouse guardbous guardhousefor - tor for the duration " The guards bustled hustled No 3030(96 303096 3030496 ( at off offto ofto ! to the hoosegow where he stumbled stumbledo.er stumbledo'er stumbleiover . of AWOLS AWOLSand AWOLSand AWOLSand o.er oer o'er . ' , , an assortment and other bleary eyed offenders He Hesaw Hesaw Hisaw ' saw three other men lying lymg peace peacefully peacefully peacefully fully on the floor arrayed like him himBut himBut himBut But no sign of recognition on theIr theIrblackened theirblackened therblackened blackene-d blackene d blackened - facesRloodleu faces Blooclle Bloodless Rloodleu . RaidPrivate Raid - Private first class 0 PaUon Fallon FaIlon and andhIs andhis amhis hIs tour four comrades ( although the thecolonel thecolonel thicolonel colonel didn dldn t know it at the time timewere ) ) were the only men captured capture-d capture d - out ou't ' of ci ofa cia oa 1 a raiding raldmg party of 40 The rest haishpped had hadslIpped hadshpped slIpped shpped catlike over the whole air- air airbase ailbase - . base chalked their tlieir initials IDItIals onplanes on onplanes 01planes [ planes sketched the location of the theradio theradio thiradio radio room noted the position of the theantIaircraft theantiaircraft thiantiaircraft antIaircraft guns estimated the size sizeof sizeof siz.of sizof . of the garrison checked each rock rockand rockand rodand and sandbar in the shallows shallowsthrough shallowsthrough shallowthrough through which they had crawled be- be before be before before - fore they reached the beachOf beachOf beach beachOf Of Pourse , course pourse this was WIS ! only a prac practlce practice practice tlce tice raid like dozens of others the thepreparatIon thepreparation thpreparation ! preparatIon for which I have Wit Witnessed witnessed wilnessed nessed But real bullets had tWice tWicetha't twicethat twicthat ' tha't that ' mght night whistled wlustled out over shad shadows shadows shadows ows and set the big grey Snauzers SnauzersYlppmg Snauzersyipping Snauzeryippmg ! Ylppmg yipping and the flashlight stabbmg stabbing stabbmginto stabbinginto stabbm ; ' into the black sky above the baseThe baseThe base baseThe The unwritten story of these spe speclalIs'ts specialists spedahsts clalIs'ts clalIsts cialists ' will all come out some day dayThe dayThe dayThe The Japs did this kind of thing at atthe atthe athe - the beginning begmnlng of the war and we wethought wethought w'thought wthought ' thought it incredible The British did didIt didat diiit It at later with their- their thell theirbrilliant ' - ' brilliant cornmandos com corn commandos cornsnandos mandos snandos _ The old name for it $ is h s guerilla guerillawarfare guerillawarfare guerillawarfare warfare fighting flghtmg behind the thelInes thelines thelines lInes or In the more official Ian lan Ianguage language language guage of an article by Douglas DouglasSmIth DouglasSmith DouglasSmith SmIth in that trenchant military mthtary militarypublIcation mthtarypublication militarypublication publIcation the Cavalry Journal , , , a aphase aphase aphase | phase in trained tramed armed warfare that thatconcen'trates thatconcentrates thatconcentrates aI I concen'trates concentrates ' on destruction ( ( the theraiders theraiders theraiders raiders destroy the scouts merely merelyget merelyget merelyget get information mfonnatIon ) of enemy person personnel personnel personnel nel and equipment eqwpment in the enemy s a sown aOwn sown own terntoryBack territoryBack territory terntory territoryBack Back in the French and IndIan IndIanwars Indianwars Indianwars wars the ancestors of Douglas DouglasSmith DouglasSmith DouglasSmith Smith began learning learnmg these tricks tricksCaptain tricksCaptain tricksCaptain Captain Smith Snub an American cItIzen cItIzenand citizenand citizenand and later of the French foreIgn foreIgnlegIOn foreignlegion foreignlegion legIOn has put pu't ' on paper some of ofthe ofthe ofthe the principles prmclples he has adduced fromhis from fromhIs fromhis hIs wa cv.n cvn ovn . experiences in World WorldWar WorldWar WorldWar War ILExcellent IL ILExcellent Excellent ResultsThe Results ResultsThe The usual method of attackmg attacking attackingan attackmgan an airdrome lurdrome says Captain Captam SmIth SmIthin Smithin SmithIn in recounting one of his expenences experiences expenencesWith experienceswith experienceswith With the guerillas composed of Bnt Brit Bntish British British ish and ' French li'rench lirench 'rench rench ' in Libya was for forthe forthe forthe the men to leave their cars ( the therubber therubber rubber boat of the desert ) and goon go go.on goon .on on . toot foot up to the airdrome at mght night mghtWhen nightWhen nightWhen When possible they passed the sen sentries sentries sentries tries without detection and put their theirbombs theirbombs theirbombs bombs on the airplane " ( chalkmarks chalk chalkmarks chalkmarks marks when you just rehearse ) then thenleft thenleft thenleft left the airdrome and got suffi sufficlently sufficlently sufficienUy clently far away before the bombs bombswent bombswent bombswent went offOf off ot offOf ! Of course says Captaih Captalh Captath Smith Smithlacomcally Smithlaconically Smithlaconically lacomcally laconically as the descendant of a agood agood agood good Indlj'n Indljn Indian lndin ' fighter would this was wasnot wasnot wasnot not always possible and many times timessentnes timessentries timessentries sentnes sentries had to be killed in m hand to tohand tohand tohand hand fighting flghtmg by a sudden attack attackWIth attackwith attackwith WIth a knife kmfe Although the Ger GermaIlS Germans Germana maIlS mans made e\ e e\ery e ery eery \ ery effort to protect protecttheir protecttheir protecttheir their planes jJlanes against agarnst such attacks attacksapproXImately attacksapproximately attacksapproximately approXImately 300 enemy planes planeswere planeswere planeswere were destroyed by this guerilla unit unitin unitin unitIn in a single 12-month 12 month - - - spanCaptam spanCaptain span spanCaptain Captain Captam Smith writing wntmg in 10 the theearly theearly theearly early days of the war says in 10 case of the Invasion of Europe " the thebeneflls thebenefits e beneflls benefits derived from i\1erillas i 1erillas gIierillaS i1erillaswould gIierillaSwould \ guerillawould , would be of the greatest assistance assistanceto issistancto to an army opening a brIdgeheadWeU bridgeheadWell bridgehead Well WeU . , , not only oiily the land iand guerilla guerlUas guertilas guerlUasbut guertilasbut but also the men who come " "up up " 'P P ' out outof outof ou II of the sea by night are of greatest 'greatest 'greatestassistance ' * greatestassistance greatesassistance ' assistance wh whither whether ther you call them themby themby therby " by the romantic name of con com commandos conmandos ' mandos ' ' or the more prosaIc prosaIcAmerican prosaicAmerican prosaiAmerican American designation of scouts and andraIders andraiders anraiders " raIders The French have bave their theirland theirland the ) land guerillas gucriUas guerfllas who are already play playing playlug plaing ] ing lug a vital vitai part In the battle of Gei Ger Germany Germany many The part our scouts and raidera raid raidI raiders raic I era ers have in the same epic event eventwill eventwill everwill will some day be sung in approprl appropri appropriate appropr : ( 1 1ate ate measuresBut measuresBut measures But let s a get back to our personalhistory personal personalhistory persons personshistory history The day after the bloodies bloodless bloodless'raid bloodless'raid 'raid raid ' ' raid which I described to you youcaptain a acaptain acaptain captain from the raided airbase was wasvisiting wasvisiting visiting at raider headquarters headquartersSaid headquartersSaid Said the captain cap'taln captaln ' after his third thirdcoca thirdcoca coca cola About your raiders run runnIng runniag ning niag hog wild over our joint jomt last lastnlghl lastnight las lasnight night nlghl . We caught them all-four all four all - tour of ofthem ofthem if them They walked right into the thesentry thesentry th thsentry sentry s a arms-and arms and arms - and darn near get getdrilled getdrilled drilled drilledThe The raider officer who lived his hispart hispart hi hipart part and looked It-he It he it - - he was still un unshaven , shaven got up and picked plcke-d plcke d - up a adfle arifle rifle dfle shining like a schoolboy schoolboymorning s a smolnlng amotning mol-nlng mol nlng motning morning - face that was standing standmg ID in IDthe inthe i the cornerThe corner The Colonel Errs _ ' Take 'Take this ba back ck to your colonel colonel'he colonelhe " ' ? he said and have him check Its Itsnumber itsnumber itnumber number He knows It stands in m the therack therack thirack ? rack right outside his door and If Ifyou ifyou ) you have an inspection worth worthnickel a anickel anickel nickel it s been missing about nmfJ nine nmfJhours ninehours mnhours hours \ hoursThe The captain cocked an eyeYep eyeYep eye eyeYep Yep said the raider raiderplucked I Iplucked Iplucked plucked it from th thp bush and wouli would wouldhave wouldhave have had the name plate off at ! theskipper the theskipper th'skipper thskipper ' skipper a s door too it if I hadn t heard hearda heana a step m in the hall . . . Want to see a asketch asketch .sketch sketch . sketch of your layout7 layout ' He tossed tosseda tossei-a tossei a - a sodden notebook on the tableYes tableYes table tableYes Yes It was lust Just 3ust play But the theyoung theyoung thyoung young officer who had been pushing pushingthe pushingthe pushmthe the pigskin around tor for one of at ouistoried our ourstoried ourstoried storied gridirons gndIrons only two years age ago agohad agohad had played at more serious senous gamesn games games.in gamesn , .in in . n Africa before he came back to tobe tobe tc be an instructor-he instructor he instructor - he had landed onmore on onmo'e or ormore more mo'e moe ! ; ' than one enemy beach Wiggled wig wiggled gled past sentries human and c canthe can n nline ine the just as he bad had when he workec worked workedhis workedhis workechis line his way war up to the commandant s sdoor it . door stole the rifle inched his was way wayback ! { back to a clump ot of bushes dug out outI outhis i I his deflated rubber raft blew it up upand upand ui uiand and paddled back to safety safetyDuck safetyDuck safetyI I Duck soup tor for him He d done It ItI Itall itall ii all before in earnest - once when whenthere whenthere wherI I there bad had been a quick hash of a t knife and some someblood - and a sen sentry sentry sentry try s last las't ' groan , , , stifled st1fled by a hand handthat handthat han hanthat < that had to wipe some enemy blood bloodfrom bloodfrom bloofrom ( from it And tor for that , , , be he wears alittle a alIttle alittle lIttle ribbon on his dress tunic which whic whichyou you can t buy by the yard . * S . S * . SWomen Women and the War WarWhat WarWhat What Is gomg going to happen to the mIl mIllions millions millions lions of women who are now filling fillingjobs fillingjobs fillingjobs jobs in war Industries industnes when (1) 1 (1)those (1)those (1)those 1those ( ) ) those industries are discontinued diacontinued dl continued or orconverted orconverted orconverted converted to peace time operations operations(2) operations2 (2) 2 ( ) millions mllllons of men come home homefrom homefrom homefrom from the war looking lookmg for jobsA jobs jobs7 jobs7A ' A group ot of women who meet in inWashmgton inWashington inWashington Washmgton Washington frequently have been beenhard beenhard beenhard hard at work wont for months on plans to todeal todeal todeal deal with such an emergency , , , , Theyare They Theyare Theyare are the women s advisory commit commit- committ - - . t . . "f f " th . W " , . Mannnwer s sian sion headed by Miss Margaret A AHIckey AH.ickey AHickey HIckey H.ickey . and they have just made madesome madesome madesome some specific spectftc specule recommendations to toWar toWar toWar War Manpower Chief McNuttThe McNuttThe McNutt McNuttThe The women s committee sa } ) sthat s sthat sthat sthatEmployers that thatEmployers Employers should give their wom worn women wornen wornen en workers notice of cessation of ofwork ofwork ofwork work as tar far ahead as possibleWomen possibleWomen possible possibleWomen Women to be laid off 01Y first should shouldbe shouldbe shouldbe be those on the split-shift split shift - - - includmg Including includmgmothers Includingmothers includingmothers mothers of children tor for whom part- part parttime parttime part-time part time - - - time working arrangements have havebeen havebeen havebeen been madeWomen madeWomen made madeWomen Women who wish to resign from fromtheir fromtheir i itheIr theIr jobs lobs voluntarily voluntar1Jy should be bej beasked beasked beasked asked to do so as soon as possIbleWomen possibleWomen possible possibleWomen j Women who have bave to be dismissed dismissedbecause dismissedbecause dismissedbecause because of the curtailment of workshould work workshould workshould |