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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 sol-diers now receiving training in jungle fighting in the Caribbean Carib-bean 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; 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. 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 sent 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-infiltrate and outfight the Japs. Presented here is a series of jungle warfare training pictures pic-tures taken by the U. S. Army Signal Corps in remote outposts out-posts manned by U. S. troops somewhere in the Caribbean area. V J" Aj"1 t r , : I - vhit' Wit 4"V A group of typical fighting men who are manning our Caribbean Carib-bean defense are shown equipped with modern Garand rifles and wearing mosquito helmets. j " -a 2 iJ- t -vr Heavy caliber machine gun ready for action and manned by experts. Coast artillery bat- t ys. y 4 tery on the run after x t in "alert" hai been - f -v V sounded. - StJJ Coast artillery battery bat-tery on the run after an "alert" has been sounded. L'' -V ; . Soldiers must undergo un-dergo rigorous training train-ing to cope, ivith the liinele. They can be chilled when, after hacking their way through the jungle, they emerge into a clearing where air is stirring. Left: Troopers hack their way through deep junelc growths with a "bush knife." wxim ws"; viff , W! 'Jwj - -zrxvy " W " w , ' V '; ' v f' " ' f' ' "'i A cliarge in the jungle presents this grotesque scene. |
