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Fifty-Three of 394th's BestShots Attend Sniper's SchooFifty-three ot the best shots inlt;$ the 394th Infantry attended a Regimental Sniper's School to learn how to pick the enemy off in battle.The course was given under the direction of Lt. Griffith Benson or Antitank Company. His assistants were S-Sgt. Paul Curry and PFC Frederick Mohr of Antitank Company.Much attention was given to the nomenclature ot the sniper's rifle, the telescopic sight, and other features of the weapon.How the 99th Is. .vBuying War BondsFollowing are the latest figures up to last Monday, June 19, showing how the various units of the 99th are backing the attack with i their bonds:Special Troops ........ $4,907.75324th* Medical Bn...... 1,071.00324th Engineer Bn..... 1,312.50393d InfantryIcG£» • I • *f3,962.50High scorers in the range firing 394th Infantry.......12,865.20395th Infantry ..................10.152.55Division Artillery ..........150.00370th FA Bn........... 4,972.25371st FA Bn......................900.00372d FA Bn..................1.040.75 i924th FA Bn......................1,204.25 II1with the weapon were Pvt. William Cooper and Pvt. Zelman Kuehn, both of Company E, who scored the possible of 100. Men who scored 98 were Pvt Herman Sullivan of Company G, Pvt. John Weikel and Pvt. Lawrence* Zon-sius, of Company K, and Pvt. Milton Crawford of Company L.mOther men who attended the school were: Pvts. Charles Hill,Robert McKee, William McMurdie,Joseph McNulty, and Arthur Mings of Company A; Pvts. John-Garter,Robert Wurdemann, Clarence Deal,Merlin Goodwin, Pendleton Woods, of Company B; PFC’s Elmer Hartman and William Thomas and Pvts.Edward Foulke, Robert Jones,James Kenville, and Herbert Lubke of Company C.PFC's Clair McGinnis and Olin Monk and Pvts. George Hodgson and Jerome Nelson of Company E;PFC’s Warren Blackman, George Gillette, Lloyd Martin, Cecil Palmer, and Donald Wedewer and Pvt.Lloyd Teekeli of Company F;PFC’s Leroy Engle, Edward Berly,Clarence Gscnwmd, Charles* Pol-lick, and Victor Tmani of Company G.PFC’s Robert Ellis and Paul Roth and Pvts. Robert Katz, John Keeney, William Lake, and James Langford,* Jr.. of Company I; Pvts.Bruce Gore, Jack Jones, RaymondMastracchio, and William Nichol- [s^ ppQ joe Hollis, PFC S. H. son of Company K; and PFC’s j Smith, PFC M. J. Miconi, PFCTotal...............S47.761.75Maj. Hinkson Smoke Signals Birth of DaughterMaj. Chas. (Smoky; Hinkson. Division Chemical Officer, wreathed himself in a halo of smoke last Monday out of sheer joy.The occasion for smoker display was the birth of daughter Peggy Even Hinkson. Maj. Hinkson's three sons now have a baby sis^ ter.There was much rejoicing in the Hinkson household in Sherman when the stork delivered a girl.Comes Through in Field Firing TestThe mortar section of Co. L, 393d Inf., qualified on the field firing, test last week. *Members of the section are: PFC O. D. Powell, Sgt. C. E. Fisher, PFC C. M. McCorkle, PFC John Renzelii, PFC Frank S. Yan-i•lt;Waiter Beard and John Cunning-PvtsH. G. Brewer, PFC Nick Evan-cew, PFC E. F. Stambaugh, PFCIvan Jackson, and Alfred Slay-1M*. J. Clifford, and PFC W. F. baugh of Company L. Landis1ccf\ctlt;*k
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