National Rifle & Pistol Championships
Camp Perry, Ohio

Elite of Sea Services Set Sights on National Matches

CAMP PERRY, Ohio - It is about that time again - when the sound of shot and the smell of spent shells fills the air - at the National Matches. This means that the "World Series of Marksmanship" begins here on July 27 and continues for a month. In that time almost 7000 shooters, both civilian and military, will have had a "go" at it.

As in the past, Navy Times will reward Sea Service shooters with engraved wrist watches. These watches will go to the high Navy, Coast Guard and Marine competitors in both the National Trophy Individual Pistol Match and Rifle Match, and to the high Reservist of the three Sea Service branches in both pistol and rifle.

The matches are divided into three phases - pistol, smallbore rifle (.22 caliber) and high-power (.30 caliber).

Marine Corps personnel have been practicing at Camp Pendleton and Quantico for the Camp Perry event; the Navy at Jacksonville and San Diego and the Coast Guard at Cape May, N. J.

THE MARINES' top contender in pistol is expected to be Capt. William W. McMillan of the Marksmanship Training Unit, an Olympic medal winner who also has won the Lauchheimer Trophy for four straight years in All-Marine firing.

In rifle, the Leathernecks also have WO Emmet Duncan, Marksmanship Training Unit, who won the President's Match at Camp Perry last year; GySgt. Michael Pietroforte; GySgt. V. D. Mitchell and Cpl. Albert P. Miral, 1st MarDiv, winner last year of the Marine Corps Match at Camp Perry.

the Navy's champions in rifle and pistol, respectively, are D. S. Morine, Naval Training Center, San Diego, and Robert J. Murphy, also of NTC.

The Coast Guard is expecting big things from Stan Hulstrom, a boatswain's mate first stationed at the Coast Guard Academy, and a holder of many sectional pistol titles.

Navy Times, July 21, 1962

Camp Perry has 2300 Support Men

CAMP PERRY, Ohio - Camp Perry's six pistol, four rifle ranges and 320 smallbore firing points are staffed with about 2300 behind-the-scenes military support personnel who have helped set up the 1962 National Rifle and Pistol Matches - the "World Series of Marksmanship."

Men of the Army Signal Corps have strung a mass of more than 60 miles of electrical wire along the ranges. This is four scoring machines and loud speakers which broadcast instructions from the range officer to the more than 300 shooters who may be on a range at one time.

During the matches, more than three million rounds of ammunition are fired. Twelve officers and 90 enlisted men, equipped with data processing machines, valued at more than $200,000, make up the statistical office.

The Marine Corps Range Detachment, under the command of Maj. John H. Cahill, numbers 195 officers and enlisted men, including two Navy hospital corpsmen. This detachment is assisting in the operation of the pistol range, air and pell-gun ranges, and one range during the high-power rifle matches.

The Marine Corps Pistol Team is headed by Capt. William W. McMillan Jr., of San Diego while the Marine Corps Reserve team is headed by Col. Emmet O. Swanson of Minneapolis. McMillan is holder of the Camp Perry .45 caliber National Match Course pistol record, 877-45. He also won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.

THE PISTOL COMPETITION has attracted more than 2500 shooters. Before actual shooting, the Small Arms Firing School, a three-day school for the military, was held. A highlight was panel discussions which included talks by SFC William B. Blankenship of the Army who won the 1960 and 1961 National Pistol Championship, and Sgt. William S. Crawford of the White House Police Force.

Bill Jordan of the U.S. Border Patrol gave a demonstration of the police quick draw and double-action shooting.

Navy Times, August 4, 1962

Marine Corps Team Third In National Pistol Matches

The Marine Corps Western Team posted a 1123-35x score at the National Pistol Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, last week to take third place in the National Trophy Pistol Team Match, but Marine shooters on other fronts were finding ranking places hard to come by.

The Marines' Blue Team put together 1166-43x points to grab runner-up honors in the Center-fire Team meet, a single point behind the Army Blue Team's 1167-49x.

The U.S. Army's Western Grey Team fired an aggregate 1129-32x to take the National Trophy Match, a single point ahead of runner-up Marine Corps Reserve Gold Team's 1128-39x score.

WO William E. Eubank of MTU paced all Marine Corps shooters in the National Trophy Individual Pistol Match with a 290-8x total, but was 11th in overall standings.

Sergeant Leslie M. Hunt collected a 2612-92x in the National Pistol Championship Aggregate to lead Marine shooters, but his total netted only ninth place in the overall standings.

Top honors in the National Aggregate went to the Army's SFC. William B. Blankenship, Jr., who fired a 2633-128x.

Marine Sgt. Larry L. Hausman hit for a 883-41x total in the .22 Caliber Pistol Championship Aggregate and took the event's overall third place. His 195-5x score in the .22 Caliber Slow Fire Match also netted a third spot for the Marines.

Third place in the .45 Caliber Slow Fire meet went to MTU's Capt. William G. Ficere Jr., who compiled an 192-6x.

MCRD Chevron, Friday, August 10, 1962

Shooting Vet New Senior Pistol Champ

Camp Perry, Ohio, Aug. 6 - Marine Colonel Walter R. Walsh, of 6429 N. 22d Road, Arlington, Va., has won the Senior Pistol Champion Division of the 1962 National Rifle and Pistol Matches with a score of 2543-90X.

The pistol phase of the National Matches was held here from July 30 to August 4.

The Senior Champion Division is for competitors over 55 years of age. Sixty three shooters competed in this division. Colonel Walsh, a Distinguished Rifle and Pistol Shot, has been firing in competition at Camp Perry since 1928.

The Colonel is presently stationed at Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. with the Marksmanship Training Branch, G-3. He will report to the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va., for duty in October, 1962.

Quantico Sentry, August 17, 1962

U.S. Mayleigh Cup International Pistol Team

American Rifleman, Vol. 110, No. 10, October, 1962

(l. to r., standing) SP4 W. D. Armstrong, USA; Capt. T. D. Smith, III, USAF; Capt. F. C. Green, USAF; Sgt. L. L. Hausman, USMC, Sgt. M. Jones, USA; SFC R. L. Jones, USA; Sgt. E. W. Heugatter, USA; SFC S. W. Hunter, USA; CPO W. E. Edison, Jr., USCG (Alternate); L. Maxwell (alternate); (l. to r. kneeling) G. R. Collinson (Official Witness); H. E. Aitken (Team Captain); Capt. W. W. McMillan, Jr., USMC (Team Adjutant) and PO2 D. L. Hamilton, USN