European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Fog a the stars and stripes saturday August 22, 1959 is. Retains title in nato prix Leclerc matches Rammelburg Germany is the . Successfully defended its nato prix Leclerc Marksman ship Crown Here Friday in a closely contested Battle in which Brit Ain placed second and Germany american marksmen All members of the 21st inf scored 2,957 Points in the Day Long match to win the 1959 Small arms Crown. The British army compiled 2,826, and the German army 2,820.it was the fifth first place win pvt Richard j. Mosdell. Rifle King com z drives to 3 firsts in test finals Kaiserslautern Germany special com z won three out of four classes in the Usa eur Driver proficiency contest finals Here Friday. Pfc j. D. Daw of com a retained his title in the 5-ton truck with trailer class with 679 place went to pfc Charles g. Dunning Vii corps 667 Points. In third spot was pfc Floyd , v corps with 650.5 Points while sp4 William f. Iden com a finished fourth 627.5 Points. Other winners were sp4 Leo , com a Sedan class 765.5 Points sp4 Paul a. Maag support come j/4-ton jeep with trailer,772.5 Points and pfc Leonard h. Dillion com a 2v-ton truck with out trailer 769 behind Moody were sgt Elmer Boulet com a 755.5sp4 Kemp w. Lynn Vii corps 754 pfc Ismael l. Carrasco North Ern area come 708. Behind Maag were sp4 Myrond. Frost com a 756 Points pfc Paul e. Bauer v corps 740.5, an sgt Lionel a. Lewis Naco 733.5. Trailing Dillion were sp4 Geraldj. Skahen v corps 753 pfc Thomas m. Lawlor Southern european task Force 734.5, and pfc Carl e. Powers v corps 684. For the americans in the nine Yea history of the seven nation com placed fourth with 2,776 Points just ahead of the belgian sat 2,751. In sixth was the nether lands with 2,735. France scored 2,518. Germany won the pistol Cronin the three weapon Competition Here with 226 Points. The . And the Netherlands tied at 224 apiece but match officials gave second place to the Netherlands on the basis of earlier practice scores Leav ing the . In third. Canada was fourth in the pistol shoot with 218, just one Point ahead of Belgium and five Points ahead of France. Britain scored 207 inthe pistol matches. Individual High scorer in the Pis Tol event was capt Herbert Knes Pel of the German infantry school Here Host to this year s was sp4 Norman f. Briggs of the 21st inf. Knespel scored 115out of a possible 144. Briggs. Was just a Point behind. Third Rankin individual Marksman in the pistol event was dutch Smi glad copies with 113.the canadians won the Rifle matches with ij200 Points Only two ahead of the american team and 14 Points ahead of the third place German scored 1,133, for fourth with the Netherlands three Points behind and the belgians with 1,122. Britain scored 1,090 in the Rifle event. Rifle results individual High scorers in the Rifle shoot were pvt Richard , of Canada with 125, pvt Lucin Auclair also of Canada with 115, and 1st it Stanley Skaife of the ., with 114.the americans captured the Light machine gun Crown with 1,535 Points tied with Britain. But match directors gave the British team second place on the basis of tie breaking practice scores compiled earlier in the was third with 1,472 Points. Germany compiled 1,408, the Netherlands 1,381, Canada 1,358,and France 1,172. Individual High scorers in the Light machine gun were first com John Mcgrady and can Phil Young both of Britain with 325 Points second maj John Baker and Magraham Wemyes also of Britain with 324, and third sp4 Kenneth. Garrett and sp4 Donald t. Rhea of the . With 315. Rail rout convinces pfc to study German Frankfurt special not knowing the language can cause some embarrassing moments in Germany according to pfc Clitu Spearl of the he co of the 3d army div s combat come told of How he was manually dragged from a Ger Man passenger train. I thought i d been mistaken for an escaped mental patient said Pearl explaining that he later Learned that the front car in which he was Riding was being detached from the train. Pear has now signed up for Aba c German language course at the
