European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge the stars and stripes september 1958 taskforce gathers for first joint amphibious War games Taipei a Small task Force converged on Southern Formosa Waters saturday ready to hurl americas and nationalist chivas first combined amphibious Landing exercise against pretended enemy held beaches units of the 7th the army boosting output of new Light weapons Washington a the army has announced plans for a million program for Quantity production of the new m14 Spring Field Rifle and the Mgo machine a Pilot production line has been established at the Springfield Arsenal in preparation for mass commercial the announcement of com Mercial production culminated a development and test program which ultimately will Arm soldiers and marines with a new family of the new Springfield Rifle and the machine gun replace seven of the Small arms currently used in army line the which fires the new Cartridge adopted by the North Atlantic treaty Organiza replaces the present my Garand the my and m2 car the Browning automatic Rifle and the m3 sub machine the army said of the new rifles have own authorized for the current fiscal Una err a 2 million the first production item is in off the Assembly Lin text Jun the current Pilot run at the Arsenal will lie rifles at a Cost of about s3 million the army also has been authorized to produce under the current Mgo machine guns at a Cost of about nationalist and marines and aircraft from both will participate in operation land to at South of the formosan port of Only battalion size striking forces from both involving less than will be but the Man Euver is being taken Here As a significant demonstration of american nationalist chinese Unity and firmness in the face of communist chinese bombardment and invasion threats against the nationalist held Quemoy 130 Miles West of american marines from Okinawa and nationalist marines ran through a mock invasion rehearsal in Soying Harbor near before Dawn monday the full task Force will Advance on the coast to dislodge mythical enemy invaders already dug preparing fortified defense positions and sup ported by tanks and heavy equip eighty news correspondents Are being flown to the area for Brief Ings and a close look at the state of an estimated americans will participate in the the exact number of ships and troops is 3d inf div tops 3d 8th div to win v corps shooting match Germany Spe Cial 3d inf div won the v corps commanders trophy shoot ing matches which closed Here Lute second in the we Klong Competition was the 3d army the 8th inf div was the 3d inf div team scored out of a possible to ring up a percentage of to win the computed on the basis of standings in my pistol and sub machine gun automatic Rifle Competition was not scored for team match officials the 3d army div team compiled per cent for and the 8th inf marksmen scored per cent for in fourth was event swept by 3 army teams Camp Ohio Rifle teams won the first three places in the top team event of the National Rifle the win Ning Allamy Blue squad from the army advanced marksmanship unit Amu fired a record of a possible the first five finishers broke the old National trophy team match record of Points set last year by the top seven teams bettered the previous helping the army sweep the top three positions was the 2d army which finished second with the army Gray also from the fired a Good for third in fourth place was the Marine corps team with the Navy finished fifth by shooting the High shooting member of the winning army team was pfc Philip of he be came the second Man in the 55 year history of the trophy matches to fire a perfect score of 250 Points Over the National match course of 50 shots fired at 300 and 600 Marine t sgt Michel Pietro of Rockville pulled the trick tuesday in the trophy individual Toloczko teammates and their scores sgt Ronald 244 26 m sgt Alfred 24416 sgt William 24719 sgt Norman and s sgt Max Gruenther makes awards at Heidelberg new of Iron lung1 used in air move of polio patient Germany Spe Cial a new aluminium Iron lung which was in Europe for demon1 to medical personnel has 1 been used in the evacuation of n i polio patient from Tel i to the the David is a United nations employee in Tel he is a native of new Zea i attended by i Safe medical arrived at Rhine main air base Friday he was then taken to the Usan Pital in Wiesbaden before continuing to the the flight from Tel Aviv to Rhine main was made in a c54 of the 2d aeromedical evacuation based at the trip was uneventful and the lung functioned said it col John head of the aeromedical air evacuation polio team which is demonstrating the lung to Safe the demonstration team brought two of the lightweight lungs to one will remain Here for use by air evacuation and the other will be used to transport Exley Back to the new Type of developed constructed at the air forces school of aviation Medicine at Randolph air Force is designed for air evacuation it mounted on a Stretcher base can be carried by two Alfred Gruenther president of the red of Honor to col John Nottingham editor chief of the stars and and it col Samuel chief of the american forces network in in recognition of services to the red Cross by their organizations in the annual Campaign for members and photo by Schuettler an honoured by red Cross Germany certificates of Honor were presented to the stars and and the american forces network by Gen Alfred Gruenther president of the american National red in ceremonies saturday in the office of Gen Usa eur command Erin col John editor i chief of the and and it col Samuel chief of accepted the framed awards for their Organiza in presenting the american National red Cross certificates of Gruenther paid tribute to and stripes and an for their services during the past year in assisting the red Cross during its Campaign for members and crediting the newspaper and radio network for their continued support in publicizing the work of the red the former supreme Allied commander in Europe noted that since retiring from the army and joining the red Cross organization 19 months our biggest problem has been letting service personnel know of How the american red Cross works for the red Cross was organized in 1859 to serve the the armed forces and the Money it spends has been for the armed Gruenther the 37th engr up with per fifth place went to v corps arty with per v corps special troops were sixth with per Eventt while the 14th army Cav regt was seventh with and the 4th army up was eighth with per Thomas of the 3d army won the open my event with 475 and 35 Vring second was Preston of the 3d inf with 475 and 32 third was Richard of the 3d inf with my winners in the Novice class my Richard of the 3d inf was Winner with 482 John of the 3d inf was second with and Bartley of the 8th inf was third with the 3d inf div was first in my team with per second was the 3d army div with per and third went to the 8th inf div with per in the open class of the carbine Bryant of the 3d inf was first with 400 and 61 is Robert 37th engr was second with 400 and 57 Ted 8th was third with 399 and 57 just one Vring ahead of Clarence 8th who scored 399 and 56 carbine event James 8th won the Novice carbine event with 399 and 61 while Douglas 3d army was second with 399 and 51 Alexander i 14th was third with 398 and the 9th inf div led the carbine team standings with per while the 3d inf div was second with and v corps arty was third with per William 3d won the Ope class sub machine gun shooting with 502 Points Arthur 3d was second with and James 3d inf was third with Kenneth of the 3d inf won the Novice class sub machine gun event with Bob by 3d was second with and Mario 3d was third with the 8th inf dive sub machine a gunners were first in team stand Ings with per second went to the 3d army div with per and in third was the 3d inf div with Charles of the 3d army won the Ope class pistol shooting with Gordon 3d inf was second with and Lester 3d inf was third with pistol class Paul 3d army won the Novice pistol event with Robert 3d army scored 663 for and Richard 3d inf compiled 661 for the 3d inf div scored per cent to capture the pistol team Competition ahead of the 3d army div with and the 8th div with William 8th won the Ope class automatic Rifle event with ahead of John Cole 3d with 484 and Gary 3d inf with Larry Al 3d inf won the Novice automatic Rifle shoot with Aubrey 3d inf was second with 481 and 48 and third was Melvin 3d inf who scored 481 Points and 44 the 3d arms automatic Rifle team compiled per cent to Lead team standings in that with the 3d inf Der in second at per cent the 8th div was third with per cent