SUICIDE SQUAD
OFFER BY AMERICAN CONVICTS. SERVICE AGAINST JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 2. Thirteen of the toughest prisoners in the San Quentin Penitentiary have offered to form a “suicide squad,” to fight against the Japanese. The men, most of whom are serving life imprisonment sentences, made- the offer in a radio session broadcast from the prison. They also petitioned President Roosevelt, asking him to let them ■sacrifice their lives for their country. The prisoners suggested that they could man torpedo boats and sail them into the sides of enemy warships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 4
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98SUICIDE SQUAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 4
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