Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...incredible hats, fabulous costumes, he wanders about laying carpets for some of the loveliest musichorines in years, entangling himself with a pair of acrobats, conducting a lunatic dancing class, giving a weird exhibition of marksmanship with strange guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent...
...Promotion of Rifle Practice, the War Department spends $500,000 a year to conduct the Camp Perry matches-sending to the tournament, in addition to picked marksmen from each branch of the service, civilian and National Guard teams representing each State in the U. S. To encourage civilian marksmanship, it offers every civilian contestant a service rifle or pistol, expert instruction, all the ammunition they can fire...
...time night fell, British marksmanship had done a deadly job. Besides the Bretagne, by British accounts, the Provence and two destroyers were sunk by mines and gunfire as they attempted to get away. The Strasbourg, muffled in smoke screens laid down around her, limped out to sea damaged by a torpedo, accompanied by five cruisers and several destroyers. Next day British bombers came over, sank the Teste and damaged the Dunkerque which was beached...
During World War I, the marksmanship of U. S. soldiers amazed Europeans. Should the U. S. be invaded during World War II, enemy parachutists may have more than U. S. soldiers to reckon with. Sprinkled all over the country is an army of 100,000 amateur sharpshooters (20% of them women & children), developed in the past decade on the skeet fields of U. S. country clubs...
...northwest corner of the field, the 75mm, guns will next be brought into play, using the Bishop trainer which shoots 22 blanks loaded with ball bearings instead of the regular shells. Firing on the target range under the grandstand, the individual members of the unit will display their marksmanship for the benefit of the crowd...