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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Edmund Coolidge '22, first class private, Headquarters Company, 101st Infantry, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action near Belleau Bois, France, on October 23, 1918. His citation is as follows: "He felt shelter and exposed himself to intense machine gun fire, when he saw a soldier lying wounded in advance of our lines. He reached the wounded man despite the enemy fire, and dragged him back to a place of safety...
...millimeter G. P. Filloux rifle of French type has been received by the Department of Military Science and Tactics from the proving grounds at Aberdeen, Maryland. The gun and carriage, which together weigh about twenty-five thousand pounds, were shipped by flatcar, and were unloaded and hauled to the University by one of the Holt tractors which are part of the equipment here...
Correspond to Our Naval Gun...
...French G. P. F. 155 mm. rifle corresponds to our 6-inch naval gun, and is mounted on a carriage with solid rubber tired wheels. Guns of this type were used in war by the U. S. Corps and Army Artiller, the personnel of which was composed for the most part of coast Artiller men. However, a number of the G. P. F.'s were handled by field artillery regiments and in the future, this calibre gun will be entirely taken over by that breach of the service; as its use falls under their work. This gun is considered...
...gun is to be used in the material course in the fall, and will be placed on exhibition as soon as possible...