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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale, naval and military courses have for some time been in full swing, the former under Admiral C. M. Chester, U. S. N., retired, and the latter in the hands of Captain W. S. Overton, U. S. A., retired, assisted by Captain A. Dupont of the French Military Mission, and by Captain Bland and Lieutenant Massey of the Canadian Army. Both courses will extend for three years and count as nine hours' work for a degree, and both will lead to commissions as second lieutenant or ensign...
...automatic riflemen can be completely, fitted out. Wooden attachments similar to those placed in the rifle muzzles to hold the V. B. rifle grenades have also been obtained. It will now be possible to equip a whole platoon in the formation taught by the officers of the French Mission. The grenades used at Barre last summer, and the ordinary rifles will complete the armament...
...Cambridge yesterday. He is now in charge of the Yale R. O. T. C. and has been a strong advo- cate of the continuance of athletics as a supplement to military training. Captain Dupont, one of the six original members of the French Military Mission, is working in conjunction with him in New Haven...
...Lowell from the French Embassy at Washington to the effect that Captain Amann, who has been detailed as Professor of Military Sciences at the University, will be recalled and assigned to one of the army camps. Another communication received yesterday, however, announces that the work of the French Military Mission at Harvard will be continued throughout the year by Lieutenant Colonel Azan and Lieutenant Andre Morize. The other members of the original mission, of which Captain Amann was never a member, are also to be assigned to the regular army camps. An extract from the letter of Ambassador Jusserand...
Captain Amann of the French Military Mission lectured to members of the advanced course last night on the subject of trench organization and the principles of flanking fire as developed during the last three and a half years. The value of machine guns and automatic rifles placed in salients, with the intervening stretches of the trench only very lightly manned, was pointed out and explained in detail. Such a system of defense although requiring fewer men in the first line trench is by far the most effective, Captain Amann asserted...