Camp Adair sentry., October 29, 1943, Page 19, Image 19

Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, October 29, 1943.
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Back From Pacific
Combat, Infantry
Man Wants Action
TRAILBLAZER CARTOONISTS PAY HOMAGE TO THE SIMPLE (CAMP ADAIR) LIFE
COUSHLtN1.
Co. A, 275th Inf., has added to
its roster Pvt. Gasper Casuse. From
Crown Point, N. Mex., he's been
in and about some of the “more in­
teresting" combat areas.
After spending some time in Ha­
waii, he was sent to Guadalcanal,
and managed to give a good ac­
count of himself there. After one
month of tough jungle fighting
with many of the headaches and
few of the glories to which only a
good infantryman can fall heir,
Pvt. Casuse was sent to New Cale­
donia which, compared to Guadal­
canal, was a life of rest and ease.
In civilian life, Casuse was a
single man, living a normal life
engaged in stock raising. Now the
only stock he is thinking of rais­
ing is the stock of good Old Unde
Sam.
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Pvt. Casuse has been back I
"home” (home to him since being I
in the South Seas is just the good
old U.S.A.) for several months? I
and to quote him “??©$<;■//()?!
Japs will see more of me if I can I
help it.”—By Pvt. Herbert Frei-
man.
IMHALt!
ttt
FAWrk
"Yes, I'm the doctor—«hat càn I do for you?
Volunteer Yank Cavalry
Fights Nazis in Italy
Italy (CNS)—American volun­
teer cavalrymen—most of them
cowboys or ex-farmers—are oper­
ating on the Italian front, the Al­
lied command has announced. The
cavalrymen, known as the Provi­
sional Mounted Reconnaissance
Troops, are the American answer
to the tough terrain. Most of the
horses were captured but a few
were shipped from the United
States.
Advance to Be Recognized
Japs on Attu Found American
Buy Theater Ticket Coupon
Booklets and save! $1.50 value for ¡
$1.20.
DAM' HERE COME5 THE K-9 CORPS
Question: What Sport D'ya Play, Bud?
Sports Gear Arrives
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Take $14.200, spend it on
sporting equipment, have it all de­
livered to the 70th Division and
you have—not only Johnny GI’s
dream of a sportsman’s paradise,
but an athletic program that is
called by special sei-vice officers,
"as complete as any in the coun­
try.”
The aforementioned equipment
runs all the way from horseshoes
to ping pong balls, and if you think
$14.200 can’t buy a stack of sport­
ing goods, just look over the list of
things that are being apportioned
among the various units of the
Trailblazer Division this week:
There are 190 footballs for the
program already under way; 149
basketballs will be put into use im­
mediately thereafter; there are 200
-occer balls, 200 sets of horseshoes;
100 table tennis sets and 204 dozen
lyes, dozen) pingpong balls to­
gether with 40 new tables; 100
volley-balls ar.d 90 nets; 102 16-
ounce boxing gloves and the same
number of 12-ounce jobs.
For ball players (diamond vari­
ety) there are 286 first baseman’s
mitts. 89 catcher's leg guards and
body protectors, 324 baseballs.
375 bats, 291 fielders’ gloves and
92 sets of bases. Softball players
will have 800 balls and 504 bats.
Shuttlecocks for both indoor and
outdoor badminton total 504.
and there are 89 inflators and 102
beadguards to square off the col-
umn.
The equipment is being distri b-
uted on a percentage basis fi­
gured from the T-O strength so
that every single GI in the Trail­
blazers will get a whack at it- It
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will be available for use in both
informal and organized athletic
programs.
The odd two hundred bucks of
the $14,200 represents equipment
for the Division basketball team
that will start action in December.
It will be made up of both officers
and enlisted men. and latrine dope-
sters are already winter booking
the Trailblazer five to be one of
the best service teams in the coun­
try-
70th Radio Show
Now Handled by
Division's Men
The Trailblazers presented their
weekly broadcast over KEX from
Club 1 last night.
The program is now written and
announced entirely by Trailblaz­
ers. with Pvt. Manford Ishmael at
the mike. A feature of the broad­
cast is “spotting" of Trailblazer
personnel.
The band played for numbers,
one of them featuring Sgt. Ar-
mond Robbins. CpI. Lewis Bron­
stein, Cpl. Vem Norris and Pfc.
Kenneth Deulin on clarinets, and
joined the glee club in "Marching
Along Together.”
“Coming in on a Wing and a
Prayer” was the second number
of the glee club. Pvt. Tony Accosta
and Cpl. Bob Kirkpatrick did vocal
solos, and the orchestra played
“Deep River.”
About 85.000 illiterates in the
Army have been taught So read and
write.
70fh Picture
Mag Now Ready
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week.
The magazine is a panorama of
the 70th Division from its incep­
tion and the camera has captured
every phase of Trailblazer activity.
Over 150 separate photographs tell
the story of the Division from the
time the cadre first arrived at
Camp Adair. They were taken by
the Ball Studios of Corvallis un­
der conditions ranging from a
photographer's dream to ones re-
quiring every ounce of technical
skill at his command.
Portraits of Division command­
ers are unusually good and Major
General John E. Dahlquist, com­
manding General of the Division,
has written a pungent foreword
that sets the theme of the maga­
zine.
Training the cadre is covered
in detail and then the camera
shoots a trainload of new
trainload of new trainees catch­
ing their first glimpse of Adair,
The film then records their
course through classification, as­
signment. orientation, settling
into new barrack-home« and into
the routine of basic training.
Highlights of the photographic
record are Organization and Activ­
ation Day programs and the im­
pressive dignity of the presenta­
tion of the regimental colors has
been well-captured by photo-
grapber. engraver and printer.
The pictures range from the
simple, the humorous and the un­
usual to ones of striking beauty
and power. It’s 25c a throw at the
FXs.
60-mm. Mortar Deadly
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One of the most effective wea­
i jured while in action as a gunner
pons used by the Army to drive on a mortar and is decorated with
the Japs off Attu Island was the I the Order of the Purple Heart.
deadly 60-mm. mortar, which men
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Fairbanks, Alaska (CNS) — A
in the 274th Inf. Regt, are learn­
ing to use with unusual effective- | gasoline-distribution pipeline that
stretches 1,000 miles from Skag­
ness.
way in southeastern Alaska to
In the opinion of Pfc. Cress B. j
Fairbanks, supplying American air­
Beatty, Co. B. 274th Inf., this,
bases in Canada and Alaska, is
weapon blasted the Japs from en- .
now in operation. The line was built
trenched foxholes and mountain i
by Army Engineers last year.
positions where they put up their ;
stiffest resistance. Grenades and
bayonets also added to the misery i
of certain Japs who insisted on be­
ing dug out, one by one.
Beatty was a member of the
32nd Infantry, part of the now- !
famous 7th Division that fought on i
Attu. His unit went ashore from
2. Utah.
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landing barges into the damp and 1 3. Around.
foggy weather uncertain ax to the
4. No. He had one younger bro-
position or strength of the enemy. ther—Major John Strange Church­
No resistance was met until the ill.
American forces advanced two
5. Yes.
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miles inland and from there on the
6. A black one. Black absorbs
fighting was fierce. Beatty was in- I the sun faster than white.
That Christmas
Portrait Can
Be Made Right
On The Post
For your convenience there is a portrait studio
regulated by the Post Exchange in PX No. 1, opposite
main bus terminal.
1 P. M. to 10 P. M.
Open daily and Sunday from