The Decoy Doughboy

Souvenir Edition -- Printed in Czechoslovakia

May 23, 1945. -- Publishes by and for the men of the 18th Combat Team. -- First Infantry Division, U. S. Army.

The Mine Sweeps

The road had to be cleared and four men of the mine platoon in Anti-tank Co. knew these hidden mines were the new "Riegel Rail-road Mines"- so supersensitive that the Germans themselves never moved them once they were in place. Only experts trained by the Wermacht could handle them safely.

But four Men: Pfc.s Charles Larson, Kenneth Griener, Chester Para, and Walter Baldwin, knowing the job had to be done, set about removing the dangerous apparatus and carrying them some 600 yards away.

German engineers who claim that "to move these hair trigger mines requires the greatest of caution because the slightest mistake would mean the loss of life", would have been shocked to see the four Americans calmly haul the dangerous mines from the supply route.