Word: targets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...First Battalion will drill at the Stadium on Thursday (target practice...
...three battalions have been scheduled to hold their field target practice on the Naval Range at Wakefield on the following week-ends...
During these trips at Wakefield the members of Military Science 2 will act as instructors on the firing line and as markers in the target pits. Talks will be arranged for the men on Friday and Saturday evenings, when Lieutenant-Colonel Blake, M. S. G., and the gunnery sergeants at the range, will instruct the cadets in the proper methods of using and caring for the United States military rifle...
...This morning it was rainy and we had only a lecture. The lectures are very good, explaining the different sights used on guns to allow automatically for target deflection and shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started...
...This morning at 10 o'clock one section went to lunch while the other section in which I was (eight of us) stayed to fly till 12. It had become cloudy and when I went up I had to climb through one stratum of clouds to where the target was being towed, at 1,200 metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine...