Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-16

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MIR. PICKERING the way.
opens at the Fox with a pre-
miere performance at 2 a. m. 10
accommodate upNde-down war
workers. and we were asking
Sawyer how the commando
troops get that way. In the pic
lures some commands were,
without weapons. beating some
Germans armed with daggerS.
Any job depends on knowing
how. Killing is no exception.
The commands are. perhaps,
the most dangerous killers who
ever walked the earth. because
they combine all the old tricks
of killing with all the new ma
chinery. from strangling man
10 spraying him with machine
gun.
Recently Bert Levy. a soldier
Of fortune now teaching troops.
was al a camp where Sergeant
Sawyer was stationed. From him
they learned methods that were
invented and perfected in the
Spanish Revolution.
Its dirty fighting" said Saw
year. There are no Queensberry
rules. War IL learning 10 kill or
he killed.
Suppose you're In town,
cleaning the enemy out Of
block OF houses. You don't try 20
get them all out at once. Leave
some of them In. II the enemy
should come over with planes,
they wouldn't want 10 bomb
their own men.
"You take one house ut time.
Never 20 through n door, be-
cause there might he n BOBBY
trap. You learn 10 knock n hole
I'm the wall. maybe with O demo-
lition bomb II necessary.
"You 20 In spraying the cell
ing with n tommy gun or n ma
chine gun. whichever you have
with you. ThAt may save you
trouble " an bOdy Is hiding up
stairs.
You've already cleaned out
the Downstairs with a grenade,
hut YOU want 20 look I'm the cor
ners. Sometimes they build de-
lenses I'm the corner Of n room"
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The manual Of arms for
commando is everything. Use
any weapon you have-or none. II
you have none.
Here's your rife" said the
sergeant major, handing me
window pole "Bayonet me with
H."
I iabbed Al him Tie brushed II
aside. This way he said
and that quickly. too. Il can't
take u away from you. or I can
get your hand like thiS-like this
and you cant drop tho rifle
even II YOU want 20 And ] reach
out and take the bayonet off.
and 60 10 work on YOU
I'VE have confidence In our
ability" he added matter Of
factly, land fear just doesn't
enter into the picture.
The stomach has 10 be strong
--inching your way. on your ell
bows, through a sewer pipe run
ming with blood from a slaughter
house is one test. a man keeps
on doing IL until-as Sergeant
Sawyer puts il. III doesn't make
him sick, and he doesn't mind it
any more"
But mans senses must not
be dulled. He must see every
thing, hear everything. A man
stands, blindfolded. with an
empty tommy gun in his hands.
Around him stands a ring Of
men. One of them stamps his
foot. The man with the gun must
aim at the sound-instantly.
Shooting. stabbing. breaking
sentry's neck, planting a bomb
or detecting a BOBBY trap, it's all
part of the soldiers trade and
they get so they genuinely enjoy
the art Of diSarmins each other.
They start with scabbarded bay
onets, but end up taking bare
bladed knives away from each
other in training camp.
But" I said. "what will this
do 10 men: Won't II leave Its
mark"
Everything you do" said
Sergeant Major Sawyer. "af-
fects you, but I'll tell you how
think they'll come out.
They'll come out and settle
down and live good, clean lives
without any fear that well have
another one Of these In another
25 years. We we're supposed to
. have won the last war, but I've
never felt we did. IL the other
fellows hadn't really Won the
last one, do YOU think they'd