US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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V: . Nw! -'.-: g , 1 x ' fu - , 7 0 , xi , x , T' 531924 T nsov E delivered an assortment of Cal. .30 ball and tracer ammunition on a variety of targets. Colored landscape targets, fleeting bobbing targets, concealed targets, bold lines of targets, distant targets-about all that any reasonable man could expect outside of live targets. All varieties of fire control were exemplified. There was nothing highbrow about it. Any soldier could follow this course and have a good working knowledge of combined fire. As a sequence Combat Practice was put on in a brief series of exercises, mostly demonstrations, where all weapons available to a section were shown in action. Grenades, bayonet, smoke, gas, maneuver, scouting and patrolling over open ground, woods, brush, by section, by squad, by half squad, done the right way, the wrong way and about every other possible way. The student found himself getting more interested and confused than he expected and a heap of sharp argument followed every critique. RIACHINE GUNS The classes glided into the biggest course in the section, Machine Guns, some scared stiff at the strange contraptioin. Before they knew it they were manhandling the thing around like an old lawn mower, taking it apart, doctoring its ailments, adjusting its fire, directing its action, figuring barrages, F1 YH. V -- -- - -Aff'--.W .-. -.,-,-. , , . Kia, ' A ' ' '.'21fF:z-2gtx 21g:r W- -xg, ,-4, 'A , :'3f 'ii5E'--V3ff-f'1.,q,.-.4g2g'i'lil ff'-i?!VT'??' ' 1 'm+f13i ' 'H'-'Z 'F - .Ux. '. -'tlifit -' - . ,. egg. -gf,-'-r ' 'fs-L 'if .5'i1'-g.i'.rni-'ia-lip-'A-?:.'..-.., . if 'Tr' - 5-i .J 0 ' . -. I' 'C-FY.54'V'. -, V.i:'.!f,,-1 .' A in 4 ,Vv...j .c F 1 V . vi ,N 1. ' .. ff, J. ,.,..-an .,. ,N I rirtzeigvny- f .4 J vf-i,:1-5, ,.1.,agfi rv- in 'i f i-w I Ayer- .1 g3,zegg.f.2ffixM,tagyg i -, 1555 I. . Vvrjf. igxqk- ,.4.35Q5,gQ3.x,:!Hj-l,i:f.fw..f3 . ' ' , V' f' gr-i u'.':NA,1.e- 7.1. 3. .H-f -Lv .- . . 'Nfgiv'ha-Qt-V.-22-as-git!-11: ., f , f , ,. . .1 1 , 1 if - Qt. ., f:a.:,.:,, X, V QV' V ' - re '39 .511: .-':.5: '.Qw.Qfi:-. ff5fi,' AW - fgfs, rx' .1 ,+ 'V ' - V r. ' i l'rw::..'3 V' iw. iiki. yz, jul: Q, V, , U -' - - - ' N 1 . V . ' .- ' I 1-if-r vr.J.fh .1-L -if-0-T-'--I-21. V-rua .V ',- '3:'5?'T41.V 5253- ' Riff -'Q-41-:ii Aga -3. . T5 . . V . ,. .fa V-...-ggi.,-fe.,,eV.Q.iE5, , Em.-.j .WS ' -V 'f 4 'f' 2. - ' f .' . .ima-f ef ' 'VM - U- 1 ' f . . def. S: -- V .y V .. 3 Vu iii- '.15gi'- av-cafe: 33'f,,ff . : 'W ' 1 3 - . S11 3-1 wm a: -V 1 , i''rVViffy'-,2.'-.tif 4Q.-if-,1Y.:rz1'ty ' 51!,ig?'fp2 i' 1:31 uyyff,-,f:,,7:., P 3z,:,V.,', ,g..5:,jfj.i 1 3. , a Q -. f' fff4,?-:ILV-4.142Qevfr - t QV,-,-.Le fag Y' 4:J-:l,ff1,.g:,iwa1f,1f:1-f:'.'4f55 f. -1, V '1, 'Fw' - is fi'- W '!Zg9WW2ft43v:.-225 1 f?'Qf1'V+ -'-- .4 V -V r ..-tw-f,t.': fIve--:Lu-5'f3z':AiM 1-at-54'-fri ..- H - 'keiffm' 5,1 4'?d'v?S'zl4Wwwii1sie:ffZ2z11::, R.:- If-1' - 7 4542325 .f 2.51 , ' , . . wxfiyffeisg-'H1'zN:-.tifw-'MW-f:?? 2?5V V w 2 ,'V -4'-., '.f' f' .-? 2:35553 - l ,.V,, e r v V A. t ga ' 4- V. t . - -V-V'-' V -' V- . . V t ajgfiftfflgql fX 62, 2.3-v. W, E V: .gg ,.,,.f lj :I - t ,, f ' .5 1 . V -A Vp -1-55:21-42 :- I - 35925 et fe2?2,a1, f-7911, i - . . viii ' f' . . i V- . . ' I iv N mi' I --in ,V a L. -... Q.. -' . 1 , J HV.. 't ' ew ,. A , . e - A wt ff' -5 3.7 ' -' I . ,fq .ti '7' 'fs Q'1'5?'jw9'f ' ' JT. A' 'ffm' -ffm, . '4 'Vi R4-' I 4 ' Qt 2- - fQ ' -F 4,1 MFE'.'.l.f,1 f'ii4Q7: Zfiiffl f 'l '- M - V A il L in-gl? SX 4 ri' 3 '- ' fl I V 5 we ' ' in QS' ,i yi ,qu la x , I lv!

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.lcv i A I924 DOUGHBOY ' U ,arf 3, F - . lm. 'alt Q ' 1 : A GRENADE This descendent of primaeval man's first weapon, the rock, flourishes in the vicinity of the bayonet court where the air is full of flying dummies and echoes from the woods of bursting H-E . The graduate can look you in the eye and tell you what's ff- inside the grenade, how to 5 El handle it, how to project it ' v .J 4 and what to do with it if it lx. 5' L ff, X turns out to be a l'dud . He Xxx X Z Z can even make a pretty re- V X ly V spectable explosion himself my bQ A f X N r A out of a collection of fuses, l X Q X X ill x E detonators and T. N. T. py- N 5 LTX 'gxj-x X K rotechnics is one of his favor- gf x - ' 5253. -f' 7.,5g7f? 1 ite side lines. - liz , ,HN Pisroi, X X l This course is another of FII X X the Schoolls products. The pamphlet in use locally was fy fa. X , fouowed. Plenty of dry Shooting C -Qi l I and preliminary exercises, peculiar ' 1, on if W QX to Pistoleers, qualified an astonish- ,M i . A H ingly large number of modest indi- :gqf r M I! Q viduals who disclaimed, at first, any vt, I Q T l lf L 2 ' - control over the .4 5. The dismount- 1 : lg ' ed record course was fired by 'each X .-1 , student. The Company Off1C6fS 0 ' 'T qualified 82 percent and averaged lx l Sharpshooter . 1' r w ' m Q 1- , MUSKETRY T 7'-Z' Q15 The rifle and automatic rifle Join- -rf. ea . '- f ' ed forces here, and in the hands of 'er ' -' students deployed as skirmishers l l -3 'S '7 'ti I I I

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Jef- A u , .s f' 7 Au: il: 'sf X 'iff' K. - I924- DOUGHBOY and in general disposing of it in groups and wholesale lots like old hands. They shot through smoke, over hills, over friendly troops, and walked under its fire. They finished off with Combat Practice, and solved problems with ball ammunition in the field. HOWITZER COMPANY WEAPONS Doughboy Artillery! The classes took to these weapons, the 37MM Gun and 3 inch trench mortar, found them accurate, easy to handle, and effective. They fired about all they wanted to, wrecked the supply of targets on hand, heated up the guns and generally satisfied any personal doubt as to their own ability and that of the guns. In general the memory is not burdened in any weapons course. The instructor explains, trained troops demonstrate, the student applies every- thing himself practically. Step by step, slowly and patiently, the instructor and his assistants check on progress, until, without any lost motion in the pro- cess, the student discovers he can actually do anything with the weapon. Not expertly, perhaps, but well enough to show another or a multitude of others, exactly how to acquire expertness. Finally, the examination is prac- tical. No memorized data is required. If the student can do what he has been taught, the Section is satisfied. f N ff W ' 1 - 14 ' 54 9 L Qi 74 r... X 'c f X N ' Lifj' 22 T 5' 'f7 :Q J, -J, +-- - fam -an ::-'- e W A Dual