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Show 501st AAA BATTALION COMPLETES FIRING Last week the 501st AAA Gun Battalion (120mm) un limbered its heavy guns at the Orogrande range and conducted its first firing fir-ing since its activation in January. Janu-ary. On Thursday morning Battery Bat-tery "D" shot down two sleeves on the first three courses. Col. Andrew Samuels, Jr., Com mandei of the 5th Group, said of the day's work that it was "as good shooting as I've seen," and he complimented the gun crews on functioning in an excellent manner. Another compliment came from Capt. H. W. Conklin, Chief of the Records Section, who said, "The scores attained by Battery "D" are outstanding for units in this stage of training." The battalion moved to the range, set up their guns, fired from V to 11 courses per battery and returned to the post without a major malfunction of equipment equip-ment and without a single accident. acci-dent. The entire battalion was fired during a total of four hours. Lt. Co. Russell L. Pirkle, Jr., the battalion commander, summed sum-med up the firing with these words. "The men responded like veterans in spite of the fact that this was their first target practice." prac-tice." A member of the above group was Pvt. Chris (Juris, son of Mr. and Mrs. William GorLs, who is stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas. O |
