Word: guns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subscription for the Colt gun which was secured through the energy of a few members of Company A is going ahead rapidly. The collection in the squads is to be made by the corporals, who will turn over the amount which their men wish to contribute to the first sergeants of their companies, who will in turn, turn the money over to the committee in charge. Yesterday Company F pledged $150 to help pay for the gun...
...volleying crash of rapid fire and the reiterated drumming of the machine gun instilled in those men who had not yet acquired it the knowledge that war is not altogether a matter of files on parade. Not a great deal of battle thrill was given to any save men with a perfervid imagination; but the work of drill took on a new meaning, and the men began to see the reason of trenches in warfare...
...these companies were also given instruction in the assembling, dissembling and firing of the machine guns which the Corps has obtained. Target practice with the Colt machine, the gun which is being paid for by the subscriptions of the companies, resulted very satisfactorily. These company subscriptions should be made to the first sergeants, who will turn the amount collected over to P. P. Goold, Persis Smith A22. It will be necessary to raise $600 from the two battalions now in Cambridge...
...addition to the two machine guns which have been presented to the corps, a third gun of the same type has been procured through the activity of P. P. Gould of Company A. With the support of a large subscription from the first battalion it was possible to obtain from the Colt Company a weapon of the model of 1917. This gun was tried out on the range yesterday afternoon at 300 yards and proved to be entirely suitable. Before the companies leave Wakefield each man will have received instruction in the assembling and dissembling, the loading, firing and practical...
Inasmuch as it is impossible for the military office to pay for this new gun, or for the ammunition with which to operate it, it will be necessary to take up a collection among the second and third battalions similar to that made by the members of the first battalion several days ago. Detailed announcement of the collection will be made later by the various first sergeants...