Italy at war and the allies in the west . to be turned in and used over day after this order went into effect acompany of newly arrived recruits were beingput through their bomb-throwing tests. Manafter man walked up to the protecting earth-work, jerked loose the firing-pin, hurled thebomb, and put the firing-pin in his pocket. Atlast it came the turn of a youngster who wasobviously overcome with stage fright. To thehorror of his comrades, he threw the firing-pinand put the live bomb in his pocket! In threeseconds that bomb was due to explode, but theinstructor, who had seen what had
Italy at war and the allies in the west . to be turned in and used over day after this order went into effect acompany of newly arrived recruits were beingput through their bomb-throwing tests. Manafter man walked up to the protecting earth-work, jerked loose the firing-pin, hurled thebomb, and put the firing-pin in his pocket. Atlast it came the turn of a youngster who wasobviously overcome with stage fright. To thehorror of his comrades, he threw the firing-pinand put the live bomb in his pocket! In threeseconds that bomb was due to explode, but theinstructor, who had seen what had happened,made a flying leap to the befuddled man, thrusthis hand into his pocket, drew out the bomb,and hurled it. It exploded in the air. Near Etaples, at Paris Plage, is the largestof the British machine-gun schools. Here themen are taught the operation not only of allthe models of machine-guns used by the Allies,but they are also shown how to handle anywhich they may capture from the up on the beach were a dozen different.
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