SPECIAL GUNNERY COURSE FOR MERCHANT NAVY OFFICERS AND MEN, TO TEACH THEM HOW TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY AEROPLANES. 1941. ADMIRAL SIR FREDERICK DREYER, GBE, KCB, THE INSPECTOR OF MERCHANT NAVY GUNNERY, HAS DEVISED A SPECIAL COURSE IN GUNNERY TO TEACH OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MERCHANT NAVY TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY PLANES. SO THOROUGH IS ADMIRAL DREYER THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE COURSE HIMSELF TO MAKE CERTAIN OF ITS EFFICIENCY. THE COURSES ARE RUN AT EVERY PORT. - Commander J H Vendille, RN, the Officer in charge of the course at one of the ports, watched by a class of merchant seaman as he handles a 12-bore s
SPECIAL GUNNERY COURSE FOR MERCHANT NAVY OFFICERS AND MEN, TO TEACH THEM HOW TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY AEROPLANES. 1941. ADMIRAL SIR FREDERICK DREYER, GBE, KCB, THE INSPECTOR OF MERCHANT NAVY GUNNERY, HAS DEVISED A SPECIAL COURSE IN GUNNERY TO TEACH OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MERCHANT NAVY TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY PLANES. SO THOROUGH IS ADMIRAL DREYER THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE COURSE HIMSELF TO MAKE CERTAIN OF ITS EFFICIENCY. THE COURSES ARE RUN AT EVERY PORT. - Commander J H Vendille, RN, the Officer in charge of the course at one of the ports, watched by a class of merchant seaman as he handles a 12-bore shot-gun mounted in a maxim machine gun mounting firing at clay pigeon, under the keen eyes of the gunnery instructor. ,
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