July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

connection with other elements of coOrdinated drill. splashes
maybe synchronized with the drill of other elements of the
battery, the spotters reading the deviations or sensings to
the spotting section in the plotting room. Corrections are
made there, and the problem continues. All this goes on
while the other elements of the battery are tracking an
• KlUaltarget and conducting dummy gun drill.
This board or a modification of the board may have application
in training of battery observers where such trainmg
cannot be accomplished by use of an actual waterborne
target such as the training of a I55mm seacoast batterv
in the interior when water areas are not available for
us~of a towed waterborne target. In setting up the board
and determining distance of the spotting instruments from
r [he trainer, cut and try methods will have to be used until
the panorama presented through the instrument is such as
Iwould be seen by tracking an actual target at a desired
range. Care must be taken to remove as much of the parallax
~s poss~b~e from the instruments before undertaking
1 spottIng trammg.
PRACTICE SPOTflNG TRAI~ER 45
A list of materials used in construction of this trainer
includes:
I-piece 3 Ply plywood ~ x 4' x 8' $ 3.20
II-pieces I" x 3" x 10' cypress 3.02
2-pieces 2" x 4" x 10' cypress .42
2-lb. 8d finishing nails 10
I-fishing reel, direct drive 29
I-pt. 0.0. paint .
;.2-pt. light blue paint 25
}4-pt. yellow paint 10
I-teaspoonful white paint .
2-doz. screw eve hooks for curtain 10
6-applicator s\~'abs (l\ledical Corps) .
Cigar box lumber .
I-l\lodel boat (wood or metal) .
Piece of fishing line .
Cloth curtain (porous cloth painted blue green) .60
1-12 oz. fishing lead weight 10
Total $ 8.18
"The young Filipinos and Americans who died on Bataan and
elsewhere were brothers-in-arms in a battle that will live forever in
the annals of gallantry. Their courage and their sacrifice will shine
the brighter in the course of the years as we realize more and more
how much thev meant to us who have been left behind to carrv on;
especially, wh~n we remember that they were fighting for demo~racy,
peace and tranquility of existence.-l\I\AJon GENERAL BASILIO J.
VALDES.