Rochester Ordinance Wild Fowl

[Researcher]

Shooting clays off the fantail was for recreation, not areal gunnery training.

[Drew Hause]

Thank you Larry and Patrick, and I added one pic here
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/24330686

And re: shooting off the rear deck President Eisenhower shooting clay targets launched from a Naval escort vessel while cruising the Potomac aboard 'Barbara Anne' with Capt. E.P. Aurand, Sept. 1960. Likely his M21

[Bill Jolliff]

Shooting off the fantail of the USS Gen. H. W. Butner T-AP113 on a Sunday afternoon someplace in the Atlantic summer of 1955.

Our ship's nurse (on the right with red hair) looks to be shooting an M1 Garand. Also popular were 1911's and I do remember shooting some sort of side by side. Common targets were weather balloons and junk.

The Butner was a troop and dependent carrier so we had a nurse aboard.

Any of you guys that were in the Army or Air Force in the mid 1950's get shipped to or from Europe? You might have had a ride with us.