"Marksmen face European gunners". U.S. Army champion marksmen flew into this Scandinavian capital city on their European training trip initiated a three pronged offensive and rapidly established a breach head in the annals of Swedish marksmanship history. In 6 competitve matches, including pistol, rifle and Running Boar events, in which Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden gathered shooting forces to match the visiting American gunners, the U.S. marksmen garnered the big share of the laurels and championships. 1st Lt.John Writer,grabbed all 3 Int'l rifle matches. He picked up the top score in prone and kneeling matches with his only loss coming in the standing event where he dropped to 3rd behind outstanding marksmanship of companion shooters, Capt. Lanny Bassham and Maj. John Foster, who posted 369 each. This gave them runner-up and third place in the aggregate with 1139 and 1131 respectively. Writer took the English Prone Match with 595 points where he was closely contested by Maj. Lones Wigger, Nat'l Smallbore Position Champion, who was one back for the runner-up spot while Foster won the 3rd place with 593. Etc. THIS WEEK the AMERICAN SHOOTERS are IN MOSCOW (see folders 407 and 408),competing in similar PRE-OLYMPIC MATCHES with Russian marksmen.....The Americans will compete in Germany prior to returning home the last of May.