Box MS419.03
Container
Contains 179 Results:
Bulletin. Headquarters, USAMTU, Fort Benning, GA., Feb.6, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.436
Identifier: MS419.03.436
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TC 450. The undersigned assumes command. Authority: Para 3-1a, AR 600-20: Period: 6 February 1974 - 26 February 1974 Orgn/Unit: United States Army Marksmanship Unit, Fort Benning, Georgia. Signed: John R.Foster -Maj. IN -Acting Commander Distribution: 11 copies: 5-Maj. Foster, 6 to other locations.
Dates:
Feb.6, 1974
Bulletin. Program schedule - III "Benito Juarez" International Shooting Competition., Apr. 8-14, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.437
Identifier: MS419.03.437
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Program written in Spanish. The Mexican Federation of Olympic and Int'l Shooting A.C. and the Organizing Committee - Has the honor to invite you to the 3rd Int'l Shooting Competition "Benito Juarez" that will take place at the "Vicente Suarez" shooting range - of this capital from April 8-14, 1974.
Inside: list of names; Patron, CEO, Honorary Managers and Organizing Committee.
Pg.3- The schedule of events, listed by date and time. Beginning Apr. 8, 10:00 Opening Ceremony. Apr.9,10,11,12,and...
Dates:
Apr. 8-14, 1974
Targets. Champion of Champions., Apr. 28, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.438
Identifier: MS419.03.438
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24 targets. Scores: 397-383-391. Total score 1171 out of a possible 1200.
Dates:
Apr. 28, 1974
Newspaper clipping. Champion of Champions., "1974" ?
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.439
Identifier: MS419.03.439
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This clipping was in a folder marked "1974" but the article makes no mention of Foster's "1171" score found in folder #438.
This clipping headline: "Marks Set by Army, Reserve Shooters". Fort Benning, GA - More than a dozen national shooting records were broken by Army and Army Reserve teams during the Indoor Rifle Sectional Championships here. Heading the list of winners were Maj.Lones Wigger and Capt.Lanny Bassham. Wigger swept the Champion of Champions Conventional with 3199 of a possible...
Dates:
"1974" ?
Newspaper clipping. 14th Annual Int'l. Interservice Shooting Championships, Ft. Benning, GA, June ?, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.440
Identifier: MS419.03.440
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Army and Army Reserve marksmen win 13 of 14 events in the 14th Int'l. Interservice Shooting Championships. In the rifle phase, Capt.John Writer won the Standard Rifle w/a 574 after breaking a tie w/Capt.Lanny Bassham. Maj.Lones Wigger added the 3-position Smallbore Rifle w/1163 and the Army Rifle w/578. Wigger's 578 was a new interservice and national mark. Bassham captured the English (Prone) Match w/a 598 and the Air Rifle w/385. MTU Maj.John Foster posted a winning 1149 in the 300 meter...
Dates:
June ?, 1974
Periodical clippings: NRA Tournament News. Scores from 14th U.S. Int'l Championships., June?, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.441
Identifier: MS419.03.441
Dates:
June?, 1974
Periodical; The Marksman.1) AMU Hosts Worlds' Shooters.2)Records Keep On Breakin' and Shooters Honored., Oct.-Dec.,1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.442
Identifier: MS419.01.03
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*AMU Hosts Worlds' Shooters. A big part of the world served as the "stage-of-action" for the almost daily performances of the USAMTU during the 1974 shooting season. During the year, shooter-instructors from "Home Of Champs" lectured, demonstrated and taught shooters of 20 foreign countries, police units, University ROTC teams, civilian gun clubs, Reserve and Natl. Guard teams and other Army shooters. Etc.
* Records Keep on Breakin'. 2 new national records were placed in the books by USAM...
Dates:
Oct.-Dec.,1974
Periodical: The American Rifleman. Texas Christian University Smallbore Invitational., Nov.1-3, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.443
Identifier: MS419.03.443
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Pg.94 -The Competitive Shooter's-Score Sheet.Eight national records were toppled at the TX Christian Univ.Invitational in Ft. Worth, and leading the way was Army Maj.John Foster, who banged out 584 X600 in the standard rifle contest to raise the U.S. standar by more than 30 points. In the air rifle event, Sue Sandusky punched out a national women's record equalling 384, three points over Foster and Capt. Lanny Bassham. The NRA three-position competition ended w/Bassham in the winner's circle...
Dates:
Nov.1-3, 1974
Photo Book. C.I.S.M. 16th Championship International Shooting Competition. Fontainebleau, France., July 20-27, 1974
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.444
Identifier: MS419.03.444
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P.419.2534 to P.419.2546.
Cover has war scene. #2534, photo of Fontainebleau. #2535 Opening ceremony, United States. Shooters all in uniform. Maj.John Foster and Maj.Lones Wigger, front right. #2536 Military men in front of flag poles, Foster, second from left. #2537 5 military men in uniforms walking down the row of competitors, all standing behind their countrie's sign and flag. #2538 6 men in sweats and sneakers marching down the street carrying the CISM flag held above their heads (3 men...
Dates:
July 20-27, 1974
Newspaper clipping. Champion of Champions Indoor Rifle Match, and Indoor Sectional Smallbore Championship., Feb.13- 17, 1975
File — Box: MS419.03, Folder: MS419.03.445
Identifier: MS419.03.445
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Headline: "Wigger wins Champion of Champions match". Maj.Lones Wigger, Nat'l Smallbore position champion (USAMU), in usual championship style of bullseyes maxed the cousre in the 2200 point Champion of Champions at Ft.Benning of Feb.14. Runner-up, Capt.Lanny Bassham w/a score of 2195. Maj.Jack Foster was 1 point down from 3rd place laurels. In Army 2-man teams, Wigger and Foster placed a new national record w/their perfect 600 of600 while Wigger, zeroed in for a perfect score of 400 to lead...
Dates:
Feb.13- 17, 1975