CONVICT COMMANDOS
WANT TO JOIN ARMY New York, Aug. 20. Two hundred convicts, ranging from chicken thieves to murderers, are undergoing rigorous commando.type train, ing inside the walls of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, in hopes of seeing action against the enemy. As “fighters incarcerated” they petitioned President Roosevelt for duty as a suicide squad, but so far have received no answer
Meanwhile 200 of the most physically fit of the 500 who volunteered to spend four hours daily, six days a week, drilling, exercising, hiking, and galloping over a difficult obstacle course. The carpenter's shop has turned out dummy rifles and machine-guns for training. The convict commander, who is serving a three years’ sentence for forgery, was an army lieutenant in the last war and won the D.S.C., Croix De Guerre and other decorations.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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