KILL OR BE KILLED
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Series: fighting-man
Year Published: 1943
Format: 16mm
Description: Dating to 1943, this film "Kill or Be Killed" was produced as part of the "Fighting Man" series of WWII training films. Shown to soldiers during indoctrination, the film uses a series of staged re-creations to demonstrate that there are no rules of sportsmanship or fairplay on battlefield. "Anything goes," states the narrator, "when the stakes are kill or be killed". Soldiers are encouraged to improvise and use any weapon that comes to hand, be it a rifle, bayonet / trench knife or hand grenade.
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foreign [Music] you get the idea you're seeing more than a half back going for a touchdown a southpaw burning a strike over the inside corner a sharp shooter nail in the basket from midcourt you're seeing more than a cannonball serve and a neat right cross to the jaw you're looking at the Spirit of America this is the way we like it fast and hard hitting and clean instinctively Americans love fair play it's built up from childhood give the other guy an even break play the game on the level don't hit a man when he's down there's a 15-yard penalty for clipping and the fighter who hits below the belt gets tossed out of the ring we like it fast and hard hitting and we like it clean when you step from the Gridiron to No Man's Land the rule book is buried and forgotten here there are no penalties except the one for losing and it's not measured in yards it's measured in life and death war is the law of the Jungle kill or be killed there are no half measures no alibi runs you've got to twist your instincts inside out to play this game because it's played to win anyway goal is destruction pure and simple your mind must be tuned to a new pitch to go after your enemy all out No Holds Barred to hurt to [ __ ] to kill This Is War a battle up for a pot of gold or an invitation to the Rose Bowl but for survival your stock and trade is the weapon you're armed with it's your bodyguard in your battering ram it's your best friend [Applause] Atomic gun thank you 105. a mortar a carbine a machine gun a bar [Applause] well keep it clean use it properly and it won't let you down but there are other weapons it's a long way from this the symbol of civilized sport the peacetime art of self-defense to this but the bludgeon is in use today as it was thousands of years ago you won't find it in the squared Circle but you will on the battlefield it's handy in a close fight when only one of you is coming out alive brass knuckles outlawed in the ring but legitimate in war thought of shotgun Pride of the underworld reinstated for the duration blackjack simple and hard-hitting trench knife not a pleasant looking instrument but effective a flamethrower not pretty but deadly yes there are other weapons your enemies use them and so will you you have two purposes one is to kill and the other is to avoid being killed to that end you use every method and every weapon you can but paste this in your memory use the one that fits the job with a rifle you can tattoo a German at 500 yards you can drill a jab at a quarter of a mile this soldier's got the killer instinct which is right but he's forgotten that full clip in his rifle which is wrong there's a time for the bayonet the time for a bullet when you've got your enemy trapped in a Dugout don't rush in after him that's what they're waiting for tossing a grenade and let them divide it but remember this no army ever won a battle without getting its hands dirty and bloody you can't get a rat out of a Rat Hole by shooting at the hole you storm and take a position by sheer physical force or you don't take it you'll be in plenty of tight places before this is over all of you then your life depends on Razor's sharp reaction there's no time for a second guess title how to lift a Nazis face without improving his looks when your life and the lives of those with you depend on stealth and silence you do what has to be done if your instinct says give him a decent chance remember he wouldn't give you one the rules of a lifetime May whisper you can't get a man when his backs turned but your death to the rules because in war there are no rules make a mistake and you're a dead mistake a good soldier is a live Soldier and this is a good way to stay alive washer of course there [Applause] in a rough and tumble the password is killed you forget the concept of clean-cut fighting there's no such thing as clean-cut War sometimes the neat right cross to the Jaws all right but there are a hundred times when an eat right thumb in the eye is more dependable this is brutal Savage but they asked for it we can take it and we can dish it out [Applause] we can use feet for something besides kicking a football no no not pretty but practical a good soldier is a smart Soldier he must know how to fight and what to fight with his reflexes must be split second fast when they aren't this can happen a good soldier uses the right weapon at the right time when he doesn't he can look mighty foolish a rifle can kill at a thousand yards it doesn't take a nosedive to tell a good soldier when to take advantage of it this is called locking the stable door after the horse is stolen it's a far cry from the prize ring to a bar room brawl but this is what it's going to be like alley stuff everything goes and there's no referee and these are the boys we're going up against a gang of Bandits with as much sense of fair play as a scorpion we'll fight them with their own poison bludgeons and blackjacks knives and daggers fists and feet bullets and bayonets we'll use the right weapons at the right time in the right way we'll hit him above the belt and below the belt we didn't ask for this war but we know how to fight it and Win It [Music]
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