"SUICIDE SQUAD"
OFFER BY AMERICAN-CONVICTS
: SAN FRANCISCO* (Rec. 7 p.m.) Feb. 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 teentences, made the offer in a radio session broadcast from the prison. They have 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24832, 4 February 1942, Page 5
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