"SUICIDE SQUAD"
A good story is told in a letter recently received by a Napier resident from a relative "somewhere in England" of the attitude displayed by the many "suicide squads'"—■ men engaged on the removal and demolition of unexploded bombs. "I passed an Army lorry yesterday, " comments the writer, "on which the words 'Suicide Squad' were written and containing half a dozen laughing lads. The other day they were asked why they were silly enojigh to be sitting on a delayed action bomb, which was being driven away to be fired off. They said: "Well, if it goes off'it just won't matter whether we are sitting on it or on the lorry sit on it to. kccp;>it^ifoirj rolling about!" \ ' "'"if'*7 '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 260, 20 January 1941, Page 5
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121"SUICIDE SQUAD" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 260, 20 January 1941, Page 5
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