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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH U. S. TANK HUNTERS Seek . . . Strike . . . Destroy Men are taught to fight tanks at Camp Hood, Texas, the only training area in the nation devoted exclusively to the technique of enemy tank destruction. Seek, strike, destroy! is the motto of the tank destroyer corps. To carry out their assignments successfully, the soldiers of the corps must possess the wily cunning of the guerrilla fighter, and unlimited courage. At Camp Hood every new method of tank destroying is taught. Accompanying pictures were taken while one tank destroyer unit was engaged in maneuvers. Picture at top shows Private Dorman and Sergt. William Winter greasing up a sticky grenade. The greased coating keeps it stuck to the tank until it bursts. Right: This tank hunter demonstrates technique of throwing a sticky grenade at an enemy tank. The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon, when the Germans stormed that great French naval base, was ordered by Admiral Jean de la Borde (above), commander-in-chie- f Fire and rescue workers enter the smoldering ruins of the Cocoanut of the fleet. Sixty-thre- e vessels, inGrove night club in Boston to remove bodies of the dead and injured. cluding three- battleships, were in This fire, the nations worst since the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago the harbor at the time, and 61 of in 1903, took a toll of about 500 lives. The fire was caused by a these were believed lost. Thus were bus boy who lit a match so he could see to replace a ceiling the Nazis deprived of the fleet on light bulb. The match started an artificial palm tree burning. which Hitler had banked so heavily. - Always Being Bossed by Corporals Members of the German armistice commission in French Morocco, captured by U. S. forces who landed there during the North African operations, are shown being marched off for internment by an American corporal. Taking orders from a corporal is nothing new for them. That was Der Fuehrers rank in the German army. Marine Chiefs Visit Guadalcanal Island New Head of Spars Typical tank hunters await the order to go into action. The bottles Photo shows Lieut. Com. Dorothy C. Stratton, new head of the Spars, the new womens auxiliary reserve of the U. S. coast guard, seated at her desk in Washington. She wears the two and a half stripes of a lieutenant commander, on her union coat sleeve, and the U. S. coast guard insignia on her coat. Soundphoto. are incendiary grenades known as uMolotov cocktails' invented in Russia. They contain gasoline and are thrown at openings in the tanks to set them afire. The three greasy socks are sticky grenades. Testing Tank Crews Nasty medicine for Nazi or Jap is this fellow, Corp. Richard Urban, emerging from a foxhole, pistol and bolo knife ready. Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb (left), marine corps commandant, field during his resquints through field glasses at Guadalcanal Gen. positions marine R. Mitchell, J. Islands. Maj. Solomon cent air trip to the aviation cldef, who accompanied General of the ground forces in the Alexander A. Vandergrift (right), commander distant on a object. Solomons, also trains his field glasses There are two big rooms in the medical research laboratory at Fort Knox, Ky. One is kept at 120 degrees above zero; the other at 30 below. Tank crews eat, sleep and work on their tanks while doctors take notes. Here a sergeant climbs up and down a ladder toting a full pack while army medics measure his reactions so crews will be bet ter cared for in tropical climes. 9 Sergt. John Swayna finds the going tough, but takes a deep breath and wriggles under barbed wire Closeup of gun crew on mobile destroyer unit. These mobile de stroyers must outflank enemy tanks, firing four or five rounds from one position, then dashing to an alternate position, and reopening fire before the enemy has time to bring their weapons to bear. - |