United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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l Department of Practical Military Engineering, Military Signalling, and Telegraphy INSTRUCTOR MAJOR GILBERT A. YOUNGBERG, Corps of Engineersg class of l900. ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS CAPTAIN ROGER G. ALEXANDER, Corps of Engineersg class of 1907. FIRST LIEUTENANT DANIEL D. PULLEN, Corps of Engineersg class of l9l0.

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1. ggwr s Department of Ordnance and the Science of -Gunnery PROFESSOR LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM I-I. TSCHAPPAT3 class of 18965 Pro- fessor of Ordnance and the Science of Gunnery, U.AS. M. A., 1912. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAPTAIN EARL MCFARLAND, Ordnance Departmentg class of 1906. INSTRUCTORS FIRST LIEUTENANT RICHARD DONOVAN, Coast Artillery Corps: class of 1908. FIRST LIEUTENANT TI-IRUSTON I-IUGI-Issf, Coast Artillery Corpsg class of 1909.