Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank S. White Jr. '39 gave the commands for firing on a balloon in the toy village back of the stables. The problem was a difficult lateral fire affair, and the shells from the trainer gun did not endanger the balloon very much. The inspector, however, seemed pleased with this department and complimented Captain Alfred M. Torrielli '38 and the Juniors in his charge...
Today is Army Day for Harvard, and the R.O. T.C. Field Artillery men will put on their show on Soldiers Field with the usual military fanfare of uniforms, martial music, and even gun firing, although this will be restricted to pistol shooting and shelling from the miniature trainer guns...
...believe all these stories you read in the daily papers, most of them are just propaganda gotten up by one side or the other. I certainly ought to know for I was in the front line with a machine-gun battalion at the seige of Teruel and drove an ammunition truck with supplies at the Madrid front...
After the review the battalion will break up into various groups who will indulge in such "laboratory sessions" as service of the piece, equitation, pistol firing, harnessing, communications, orientation, preparation of firing data, and firing of the Field Artillery trainer gun. The inspection party will take in each of these shows, and others interested are at liberty to watch also...
While Navy cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, the Philadelphia slid out of the harbor into the open sea. headed for the Caribbean. Plans called for several days' Gulf-Stream fishing...