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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1943)
Camp Adair Sentry Page Eleven Thursday, May 13, 1943. 7 he Original Camouflageur fhe perfect example of camouflage has been discovered just outside the gates of Camp Adair—it’s the kildeer’s “nest” which isn t a nest. Here we see mother kildeer, w ho is herself a tricky little thing, and the perfectly camouflaged nest of eggs.—Public Relations photo. Kildeer Is Nature's Queen of Camouflage By Cpl. John Stump, Public Relations Office Theodore. The Timber Wolf Battle-Experienced Officers Due Home Major General Alexander M. Patch, who commanded army troops in the Solomons, has returned to this coun try to head the 4th army corps with headquarters at Fort Lewis, Wash. He has been succeeded in Guadalcanal by Major General Os car W. Griswold. The war department, in announc ing today that they had thus ex changed assignments, announced a policy of bringing battle - experi enced commanders back to give troops in training the benefit of ac tual combat lessons. This policy has been in effect for some time. “At the close of the Tunisian campaign, it can be expected that other officers in all grades will re turn to the United States to apply their battle experience to the task of training new units,” the army an nouncement said. A recent survey showed that about 70 per cent of the persons with dominant right hands also have dominant right eyes. to peak of the huge flagpole, Ceremony and addresses will then • proceed. Climaxing the ritual the flag: will be lowered by the color guard (Continued From Page 1) under direction of the Post Ad Large of Eugene and C. H. Wood jutant, Capt. Waite. cock of Corvallis. State officials The new flag, which arrived this present wi! linclude the Secretary .week and measures 19x38 feet, of State. Robert S. Farrell, Jr., and 1 will fly from atop the recently State Treasurer, Leslie Scott. I Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the (raised 101-foot flagpole centering J Oregonian, and Philip L. Jackson, the Post Headquarters area and publisher of the Oregon Journal, fronting the remodeled parade and prominent newspaper men ground. Fittingly, the May 25 ceremony from over Oregon, will be among is designed to mark fruition of distinguished civilian guests. plans launched several months ago Program In Outline General format of the program to beautify Camp Adair’s Post will embrace presentation of the headquarters, as conceived by Capt. new flag to Col. McCoy, who will Waite. Landscape Arrangement in turn present it to the Color Nature itself in the form of the kildeer is offering a Public Will Witness practical demonstration in camouflage to the soldier at Impressive Ceremony Camp Adair. Just outside the gates of the post,*------------------------------------------------------ area engineers recently pointed out i Times Change! to Lt. George H. Godfrey, Public An interesting yarn it told today Relations Officer, the kildeer’s about the difference between air “nest” which isn’t even a nest. Three white-spotted eggs seeming fighting in this war and in the last ly dropped from the skies, nestled by Douglas Campbell, first Ameri- ! .... among the grey rocks of the grav- can trained pilot to shoot down a elled stretch along the highway, plane in World War number one. The mottled chestnut colored eggs Campbell, a member of the famous were all but invisible. Only a wisp Lafayette Escadrille, went into or two of straw and a piece of combat after only fifty-one hours driftwood marked the spot. ’ of flying. His plane was a Nieu- The kildeer offered a second port ... with one 150 horsepower effective lesson in the art of engine, a top speed of 120 miles deception. When the lieutenant an hour, no radio or blind-flying instruments. Armament was one maphijje gup. Guard, which will hoist the colors Blended Eggs was assigned charge of the wo <. which involved reversing the | "front” of Post Headquarters bu'.’.d- ing to face on G Ave. and tr.;s the area now converted to beer. and parade and drill grounds. | Direct supervision of the* w?rk was placed in charge of Sgt. Har old Greene, who operated from a full-scale design in color. A cc-m- 1 plete lands« ape arrangement of trees, shrubbery and lawn was worked out and the plant material obtained and transplanted umfer direction of Lt. Maynard Grur. -r and Sgt. Greene. The task of digging up anil tra :- pianting several hundred bushes and trees without injuring a single plant was successfully executed >y details under M/Sgt. Proctor of Lt. Froerer of Post Engineers Post Engineers. Problem: Find the eggs, which mother kildeer has simply laid on the bare stones about Camp Adair. —Public Relations Photo. approached, the bird dramatized a feigned flutter along the ground, wings drooping as if broken. Finally, failing to lure her enemy away from her nest, she simulated the very throes of death. When more closely accosted. she gave a repeat performance, which recalls the soldier in battle, who. feigning injury to escap* death, lures his victim closer in order to stab or blow him to bits with a concealed grenade. Like all shore birds, the kildeer is protectively colored. The brown ish-grey of the mottled back of the sitting mother so blends with the earth about her that she usually escapes notice. The “ruptive mark” —the conspicuous black bands across the white breast and the white ring around the neck cuts the continuity o’f form, similar to a principle so often used in modern warfare in the camouflage paitit- ing of battleships, cars and defense areas. The lieutenant and the area engi neers left the n%st undisturbed for ! the kildeer to carry on. 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