Show ihil Serge sergeant aitt acts dual role mill kiili ca carrier cahel hel pigeons and bayonets A biker of miracles is master alaster sergeant Sei geant max bronkhorst Bronk hort at F fort oi t sam houston texas he is engaged in the dual capacity of training homing pigeons for the signal corps and in teaching N new w york clerks pennsylvania steel workers and young farmers from half a dozen states in the dexterous use of the bayonet he has been breeding carrier pigeons since his boyhood in rotterdam holland nearly half a century ago he brought a bas j kerful of his dutch birds to amerl ica long before the first world war and with him they entered the united states army both made good nearly everybody knows how pigeons are used in modern warfare for auxiliary communications and for pilots of airplanes whose radios go wrong parachute troops and military in intelligence telli gence agents also need th the e courageous feathered messengers very few are downed by gunfire the sergeant says but a good many are killed by hawks and cats he declares that with the best of food and care a pigeon will serve the army and the nation for as long as 10 years bronkhorst is equally enthusiastic in his work as an instructor j in bayonet practice he acquired ibis I 1 his skill with the steel weapon awhile while serving in the dutch army and majored in its ita use in the A I 1 E F he is especially proud of his bayone in the squads at fort sam houston 4 ra Z J ole 0 N U S SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO sergt max alax bronkhorst I 1 have never seen anything like them he be says these men are just superior and all there is to it ive seen bayonet fighters of all races but none will be able to stand up against these american boys soldiers from the farms adept in handling the pitchfork are handy with the the bayonet but he be si singles rAes out the pennsylvanians ians for the highest praise especially these polish boys from the steel mills the sergeant grins the poles have a perpetual resentment of the wrongs suffered by their native land they can come to grips |