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...Rifleman expert (F. C. Ness) somehow got one of the jealously guarded Garands, tested it by firing a moderate 692 rounds in three days. Mr. Ness's verdict: "A fine combat weapon, with certain shortcomings. "He emphasized the shortcomings...
...Army account, the Garand is accurate at ranges up to 600 yards (far enough for ordinary combat). N. R. A.'s Garand was disgracefully inaccurate at 600 yards and less. On a 600-yard target, with the gun locked in a bench vise, its shots at the end of 60 rounds were hitting six feet below the mark. Reason: ". . .The barrel . . . warped or buckled as it heated from our slow-fired shooting (only 130 shots in three hours...
Both Keyes and Gene Lovett showed improved hitting, collecting two each along with Burgy Ayres, Buckley and Regan. As a result of divisionals Seniors are hors de combat until the Cornell invasion Friday...
...Later, to the freighters Mormacsea at Trondheim and Flying Fish at Bergen, caught in the middle of the shooting, went welcome news; the U. S. State Department had notified belligerents it expected U. S. ships to get safe passage out of the newest segment of the President's combat zone. This week anxious Moore-McCormack heard that Mormacsea had shoved off from Trondheim with her U. S. flag flying...
Outstanding ersatz tire rubber is Germany's Buna, which now shoes virtually all the Reich's motorcars and trucks, won combat spurs on cavalry cars and artillery prime movers in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland...