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
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proceed.
Climaxing the ritual the flag:
will be lowered by the color guard
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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
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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-
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....
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
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the kildeer to carry on. Soldiers > in
their off moments have proveri to
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