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Coast Artillery CampReserve Officers Undergo In tensive Training.Party-two reserve officer* of the Mftth Coast Artillery t anti-aircraft». commanded by Lieut. Col. Frank D. Milter, 1463 Dixmont Avenue, ere now serving e two week*’ Intensive . training period et ft Sheri dsn. HL, on Lefce Michigan, eocordlnf to » news dispatch.Included In thetr spedaliaed ar tillery training la the uae at three-Inch antt-aircrft guns firing sendee ammunition at a cylindrical cloth target 40 feet long, that is towed behind an Army Air Oorpe plane Hying at ITS miles per hour. Theee guns are automatically aimed by a device that takes into account direction and velocity of wind and plane, height of target and time needed for Sight of projectile. These officers will also Sr* 40-ealiber anti-aircraft machine guns at hydrogen-AUed balloons that are released over the lake.OTHER PHASES Other phases of training Include Intricate problem* on orientation of all guns before firing. TO complete the training in the use of all types of anti-aircraft weapons, night drill Is employed In which giant Sperry searchlights of a billion candlepower and capable of lighting a plane at an altitude of 30.000 feet is used.Recent developments In foreign countries have indicated that antiaircraft artillery will play an In ereaafngly Important role in any future emergency. The officer* are showing a keen enthusiasm in their desire to perfect themselves in the technique of the sky guns The officer personnel of Col. Mil ler's regiment comprises doctors, en glneers, attorneys and teachers. His roster includes the following Great er Cincinnatians Maj. Herbert Raymond Conover, 7301 Spottswood Avenue; Captains William Cooke Benton, 3013 Hopkins Avenue; Norman Jones Bukey, 3833 Inverness Avenue; Raymond Bernard Kriat 209 Ehrman Avenue; Norman James Hume, 6317 Cambridge Avenue; Lynn Wadsworth Marsh, 309 West Seventh Street, Room 1101; Donald Thomas Michael, 4043 Anderson Place.'PLATOON LEADERS Plrat Lie tenants Lee J. Davis, 3411 Bevis Avenue; Frederick P. Fein, 4743 Winthrop Avenue; Carl K. Giertnger. MJamitown; Edward 8 Hammond, 3634 Edwards Road; John W. Melville. R. R. 5, Lockland; Marion E. Morrison, 639 June Street; Alfred J. Murphy. 147 West University Avenue; Robert W. Neel Jr. 34*4 Washington Avenue; Elmer O. Rah*. 4963 Ralph Avenue; George Schnicke. 3707 Lawndale Avenue; Raymond H. Schuster. 4997 Glen-way Avenue; Albert C. Belts, 3841 Delmar Avenue. Cheviot; Carl E, Smith, 4731 Adolph i Street; Court -land Winall, 1574 Read Avenue; Adolph H. Wulff, 3110 Alpine PlaceSecond Lteuts. Frederick B. Bar* kalow, 1130 Rutledge Avenue; Pred S. Dewey Jr„ 300 HUlcreat Drive,LIEUT, COL. F.HOLLERRohs Street; Paul A. Eckstein, 3738 Hyde Park Avenue; Joseph Goodman, |ll Rockdale Avenue; Herman J, Ouckenberger. 3886 Harrison Avenue; Edward Kern Jr., 57 Vermont Avenue, Wyoming; Raymond L Ret Unger, 796 Delhi Avenue, and Carl H. Schott, 6637 Iris Avenue.TWO U. C. STUDENTSGiven Pests ef ReepamiMttty at JL O. T. C Camp.FT. SHERIDAN, BL, July 7-lt;8peciaii—Two members of the University of Cincinnati group of 36 Reserve officers' Training Corps cadets here for an intensive six-weeks' training period at Camp Leonard Wood this wees were given posts of responsibility.They are Cadets Davkl F. Meeker and Harr}’ P Sacksteder Jr., both of Dayton, Ohio. Cadet Meeker acted as battery commander and Cadet Sacksteder as platoon commander during a reconnaissance trip.Cadet Meeker Is a senior co-operative aeronautical engineering student in the College of Engineering and Commerce at Cincinnati University, Cadet Sacksteder received his bachelor of business administration degree at the recent Cincinnati commencement. -CADET OFFICERS During the past college year he held the rank of cadet first lieutenant and Maeker of cadet captain in the Cincinnati R. O. T. C. unit.The reconnaissance in which the two Cincinnati representatives took important parts was for the purpose of planning anti-aircraft defenses for v hypothetical ammunition depot, according to officers here. Cadets made map layouts of the proposed sites for gun batteries, search light and sound locators, then completed a personal trip in army trucks to determine the practicability of the locations.The 35-mlle trip afforded opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge of tactics snd troop placement, under the direction of regular army officer* detailed to this instruction.Faults in actual application of previous instruction were pointed out Wyoming: Norman J. Duhat, 33611 and remedies suggested.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1939
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