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Most startling were the estimates of U.S. bombing accuracy, which were a long way from such ebullient claims as A.A.F. General Henry H. Arnold's 1943 statement: "We did it ... aiming our explosives with the care and accuracy of a marksman firing a rifle at a bull's-eye. ..." A typical 1944-45 score, in the coldly factual language of the new report: 3.5% hits in a factory area covering three and a half square miles (see chart...
Johnny Bach, the tall center who was the driving force in Brown's victory over the Crimson earlier in January, again led the Brown sharpshooters. Compiling the same total as in the first engagement, Bach scored ten field goals for 20 points. Leading marksman among his teammates was Captain George Grumshaw, with 11 tallies...
...Marines finally had every cave on the ridge covered. They waited. When the Gopher popped out this time, a Marine marksman got him-through the head...
...Apparently the Jap soldier not only would go to any extreme to avoid surrender, but would also try to see that no civilian surrendered. At Marpi Point, the marines had tried to dislodge a Jap sniper from a cave in the cliff. For a Jap, he was an exceptional marksman; he had killed two marines (one at 700 yds.) and wounded a third. The marines used rifles, torpedoes and, finally, TNT in a 45-minute effort to force him out. Meantime the Jap had other business...
...29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side...