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80 THE COAST ARTILLERY J Among other trammg innovations at the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center was the use of simulated .50 caliber antiaircraft machine guns, firing a plastic missile propelled by a compressed air charge. The machine guns are fired at small armadas of model airplanes which zigzag backwards and forewards on wires strung between high poles. A backdrop of heavy canvas catches the missiles which are gathered for re-use. Training officers were represented as well pleased with the new phases of training gunners. Realistic effects are further attained by recorded firing bv an actual .50 caliber machine oun over an amplihino " 0" 0 apparatus. On June 20 approximately two hundred and seventy-five members of the First Class of the United States ~lilitar\' Academy arrived at Camp Davis as part of a tour of larg~ Eastern Army camps of the various branches of the service. They were headed by i\lajor General Francis B. Wilby, Superintendent. and Brigadier General Phillip E. Gallagher, Commandant, of the United States i\lilitary Academy. The cadets arrived by special train and attended services at various camp chapels in the morning. In the afternoon they witnessed a demonstration of barrage balloon tactics by a detachment from the Barrage Balloon Training Center which was sent for the purpose from Camp Tyson, Tenn. In the evening, the cadets were guests at a dance and reception held for them at the Officers Club. In the following three days the cadets were occupied wi~h a study of training methods at the Antiaircraft Artillery School. C a m p H uI e n BRIGADIER GENERAL H. C. ALLEN, COnlmwlding By Major Prime F. Oshorll This Training Center has come into the hotter months with a fine record of achievement behind it. Firing records have been made and broken, conditioning-march times have been cut, and more units are qualifying all personnel on the obstacle and infiltration courses. The Camp itself is undergoing a face lifting treatment with the erection of several new buildings and spring-cleaning of grounds and areas. Redecoration of the Guest House lounge has been completed with the painting and varnishing of the walls and wainscoting. This completes the change begun some time ago with the addition of comfortable, brightly upholstered The car and target. rattan chairs and sofas, and several small tables. And Carn Hulen officers are at last to have a club of their own. Sch uled to be completed in July, the new building will be 71 feet wide and 173 feet long. Fronting on Tres Palacios Sa and the Gulf of i\ lexico, the new quarters will include sue badly needed features as a capacious lobby, containing tel phone booths, check rooms, and rest rooms. The lobby w' lead into a forty by sixty polished maple dance Hoor su rounded bv a balcony, the northeast end of which is I open to a 'large gam~ room and storage area. A separate restaurant, complete with steam table and soda fountain will also fill long-felt wants. In addition, a paneled taproo opening on a screened porch will take care of the throngs who do not choose to patronize the soda bar. Among the training improvements this summer have be the completion of the antimechanized ranges at the India ola firing point. These ranges have been carefully laid ou and constructed to provide the firing units with the fin practice on any target, under various conditions, and ar types of courses. The antimechanized range is a figure shape with the target car pulled around the mile-long cou by a section-hand car equipped with a remote control brak ring device and automatic acceleration and decelerati mechanism. A dirt embankment thrown up parallel to I tracks protects cars, power unit, and rails against the aut matic weapons fire. Curves are sharply banked to permit maximum speed of thirty miles an hour to be maintain throughout the course. The target itself, built up from I car, projects above the embankment and approximates t silhouette of a tank. The shape of the range allows gu at any position to track and fire at a target continually cha ing its direction; thus one circuit includes crossing, in ing, and outgoing courses. Several emplacement areas ha been built, permitting the siting of .50 cal. machine g and 40mm guns at their effective ranges for fire on the ta as it darts among trees and bushes. The target car can controlled from the nearby safety tower making it unn sary to approach the range during firing. The car has a fu capacity sufficient to run the target continuously for proximately three hours thereby permitting about a half of uninterrupted fire. However, the target is usu destroyed or badly torn up by well-directed gun fire 1 much shorter period.
'" .... I he entertainment calendar has been agreeably filled ~ng the summer months with the appearance of many ~ in the Camp theaters. For the more serious minded e were the Houston Symphony conducted by Ernest man and American Symphony orchestra under the of Laszlo Halasz. The high quality of lighter enterent set during the winter was continued with usa s presenting Hellzapoppin, You Can't Take It \{lith The Band Wagon, and Show Time At The Roxie. tone baffled the camp with his mystifying accomplish- 15. Taking no back seat to any of these excellent pretions, the AAATC Band put on GI Jubilee, and capacity crowds at the Camp War Department tef. A variety show with the musical portions devoted ht classic and modern pieces, it proved the bandsmen's ntion that thev, too, are "entertainers" in the same fine astheir more professional colleagues. Camp Tyson COLONEL \\,T. H. DUNHAl\I, Jr., Commanding Barrage Balloon Training Center By Captain F. R. Alexander Barrage Balloon Training Center at Camp Tyson honoredby a visit by l'vlajor General Joseph A Green, ARTILLERY ACTIVITIES The antimcchanized range. ~- ... - , Commanding General of the Anti-Aircraft Command. He was accompanied by Colonel Cortland Van R. Schuyler, Colonel \Villiam H. Dunham, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Moore and Lieutenant 'Warren E. Decker of his staff. The purpose of the visit was to discuss with Brigadier General John B. Maynard, Commanding General of the BBTC, plans and policies related to the barrage balloon training program. General Green and his staff observed the operation and control of a barrage of some 160 LA and VLA balloons. The officers visited various balloon sites and saw the training beiog carried on there as well as on the Physical Proficiency Course and in the Barrage Balloon School. General Green expressed himself as being highly pleased with what he saw at Camp Tyson. A practical demonstration of the value of VLA balloons in protecting troops from air attack was given to the 12th Armored Division units at Camp Campbell, Ky., recently. The exhibition was staged by a detail operating three VLA balloons from Camp Tyson. The balloons were used as a barrage over a regiment in reserve consisting of both supply and armored components and formed a protective "umbrella" against simulated air attacks by seven planes from the Campbell Army Air Base. The tactical use of barrage balloons in conjunction with antiaircraft artillery, automatic weapons and searchlights, was demonstrated in June at Camp Davis, N. c., birthplace of the barrage balloon service. The demonstration was observed by a class of cadets from the United States ivlilitary Academy at \Vest Point. The entire lOIst VLA Battery took part in the Second Arm\' maneuvers in Tennessee and within a short time- 81
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