bayonet practice

Prisoners were tied to stakes and used for bayonet practice.

"We spent our days in bayonet practice," he recalled.

High strategy; not a lot of bayonet practice.

Sometimes the British used them for bayonet practice."

At school he was padded up to be the target for simulated bayonet practice with bamboo rods.

Japanese soldiers were also reported to have conducted killing competitions and bayonet practice using live Chinese prisoners.

He then threatens them during bayonet practice.

Did you imagine I'd stand passively by while you used me for bayonet practice?'

During the following week they had their first rifle lesson, bayonet practice and even a session of mapreading.

Isolated incidents of prisoners being beaten, castrated, burned to death, and used for bayonet practice arose.

He and Private Ojan each picked up a crutch to demonstrate the bayonet practice.

The ones who are not dead yet are being used for bayonet practice by a few dozen gaunt, raving Nipponese soldiers.

At school their one-armed military instructor, Sergeant Sato, gave all the boys bayonet practice with bamboo poles.

If a boat broached in the breaking waves and spilled its cargo, the waiting infantrymen would be presented with a bout of twilight bayonet practice.

After Nanking atrocities followed in the Chinese countryside - the Chinese used for bayonet practice.

And there was guilt - you'd seen your mates being used for bayonet practice or wasting away in prison, and you sort of felt bad about surviving.

When they march out the following morning, no one remains alive in the village; all of them have been used for bayonet practice or shot while trying to run away.

The police routinely performed executions at King's Park in Kowloon by using Chinese for beheading, shooting and bayonet practice.

We were given bayonet practice, and exercises to develop balance, in which one in five cracked his head, and tests of endurance which seemed to last forever.

But the revelations here - the martial-arts beauty of bayonet practice, the repetitive displays of how to break someone's neck - were out of sync with the news.

A regular soldier can serve years in the Army and hardly ever hear the word "kill" outside bayonet practice, a vestigial relic of the days before the use of assault rifles.

Harry remembered being the butt of bayonet practice at school and how passionately the drill sergeant sprayed spit as he urged students to plunge their bamboo poles through Harry's wicker armor.

While Jones and the rest of the platoon hold a bayonet practice, Mainwaring and Wilson discuss the upcoming Ceremonial church parade of all the Home Guard platoons in the area.

The book catalogues a series of atrocities committed by the Japanese in battles before the siege including beheading enemy troops or tying them to trees and using them for bayonet practice while they were still alive.

We see a charred body of a man who has been burned alive, a child riddled with stab wounds after being used as a target for bayonet practice, a woman who has been gang-raped and horribly mutilated.