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Camp Adair Sentry Thanksgiving Show 70th Div. Highspot Friday, November 19, 1943. > Club 1 Program to Be Presented Over KEX ______ i Page Three From Chill Alaska to Cool Oregon; Veterans Join Division This Just Shows What It Is Possible To Do An officer in chafge of a sec- ■ Uou tiC i»CU 1911 Headquarters dropped in to his office about three o’clock in the afternoon one day last week. “Anything new?” he asked the sergeant. “No, sir,” “Not a thing?” the officer asked, almost unbelieving. “Oh yes. Ninth Service Com mand called; but I took care of it" Trailblazers will climax their Thanksgiving celebration with a special Division program at Serv- 1 ice Club No. 1 next Thursday eve- ' ning. It will be combined with the weekly 70th broadcast over KEX. All soldiers, their friends and Trailblazers Welcome families are invited. Ex-Alaskan Soldiers The Trailblazer Glee Club and the 70th Officers’ Wives Chorus (Continued from page one) as well as soloists from the Divi- the range. The Division's average . sion have prepared a Varied pro is well up in the sharpshooter gram. Community singing and range,' ,” the Commander said, “and short talks by distinguished Trail- even our medics fired. In many a blazer personages will precede the ' unit, there were more experts than SHOWN LISTENING TO an address by Major General John E. Dahlquist. welcoming them to the 70th Division, are 168 veterans of Alaskan service. broadcast program which starts at marksmen. Few divisions can bet 8 p. m. ter that mark and I doubt if many In the radio show, which promises can equal it.” Commanding General Greets New Trailblazers From Alaska General Dahlquist promised his to sparkle, the Thanksgiving’s theme will be sounded by the Glee listeners from the Alaska Defense Club and Women’s Chorus joining Command, all of them wearing the in a special arrangement of “Pray* polar bear insignia, now familiar er of Thanksgiving” by Krenzer. to all at Camp Adair, that “op The 70th band, under Chief W/O portunity for you is just as great , Lorn Christensen, will accompany. as the Army.” The Glee Club alone will do “Dear He pointed out a fact that many Land of Home.” Its director. T 5 of the veterans had already dis Fordyce Waldo, will sing Handel’s covered—that there is a “surplus” “Thanks Be to Thee.” of ratings in the 70th Division. Football will be saluted with a Victory’s Dependence Gridiron Medley by the band, fol “There is never a surplus of lowed by “America, Thou Blessed trained soldiers," he said blunt Land.” In other features: ly, “and 1 am anxious to have Sgt. Mattie Carnevale's Rhumba you know that. You are now Band, playing “Tabu” and “Co “surplus” only by the artificial chita"; Sgt. Bill Rhodenbaugh di criterion of the Table of Organi- I Tr«Hbla»*r Phot' n MAJOR GENERAL DAHLQUIST inquires of Pvt. James Mazzarella how he won the Purple recting the dance band in "Scotch zation. Only one out of ten men Heart at Massacre Bay. Grouped about are soldiers formerly stationed in the Aleutians (left to Highball” and a novelty arrange- i now in the Trailblazer Division j rii(ht) Sgt. M. L. Bausman. T/4 Gordon G. ( lemets, T/4 Robert F. Faulkenberry and Sgt. Cleve ment of “Out of Nowhere.” S Sgt. is experienced. We need your ex Flowers. Dale Darling, Sgt. Gene Whistler perience and we want you to feel and Sgt. A. Fred Pollard, trombon that you are an integral part of ists, will be spotlighted. the 70th . . . CpI. Hugh Smith, who wrote the j “Victory depends upon train- I show, will announce it and present i ing. experience and heart.”’ There is only one private in the i as “SoJdier-of-the-Week” Acting- Sgt. Frank Correl, Trailblazer rifle group that arrived here late last champ who scored 206 out of a pos week. He is Pvt. James Mazzarella Contest Starts Next Consistently ranked “tops” Appointment of Col. John H. sible 210 points with the M-l rifle. who landed with the very first wave among units of its size and Friday; Two Classes Wilson as Chief of Staff and Col. Day Foster. War Program Direc at Massacre Bay on Attu, May It. scope, the Camp Adair Fire De tor for KEX, will produce the ¡ Five days later, while charging up ( Alfred P. Kitson as Deputy Chief I partment should benefit further Polish up those lenses and start of Staff of the Ninth Service Com broadcast. the steep slope toward the pass 'clicking, all you GIs who have a through the use of new knowledge j that led to Chichigov Bay, he was mand was announced recently .at the weakness for snapshooting. YANK, brought back to it by its chief. A. headquarters of Major General Remember — next week’s Sentry wounded in the arm and side by a The Army Weekly, is offering [L. Sherk, recently returned from will be out on Thursday, Thanks Jap machine gun. All the other David McCoach, Jr., commanding every enlisted man or woman with- “ convocation of Ninth Service general of the Command, at Fort veterans rate from T/5’s to M/Sgts. giving day. , in the continental limits of the U.S. Command Fire Chiefs held at the Douglas, Utah. «... , . . a chance to win a 125.00 War Bond Fresno Army Air Base, Fresno, Col. i son as n c ,n<|yor the news photo of camp Calif. Participating in the meeting In Albany Armistice Parade Chief of Staff since the departure activities. were the chiefs of fire department!« of Col. Paul R. Davison for duty The first announcement of the f r°m 25 different posts, camps and I with an infantry division on Octo- stations. ! her 19, and formerly had been De- contest, which will appear in the Over a period of six days the | puty Chief of Staff. Col. Kitson Nov. 26 issue of YANK, sets forth I “smoke-eaters” were schooled in 'the following rules: had been Director of the Training There will be two $25.00 bonds the latest methods of fire preven Division, in which position he is awarded, one for each of these tion and protection. The subjects succeeded by Col. Earle H. Malone. | stressed were fire pumps, fire pre ' classes: Col. Wilson served in France in vention, fire department practices CLASS 1 — Enlisted members of 1917 and 1918 and has also served the Armed Forces in the U. 8. who. and gasoline fires with special in the Philippines and Hawaii. He are assigned to photography sec emphasis laid on plane crashes. is a graduate of the Command and Of special Interest was a display tions as part of their regular mili General Staff School and of the of one of the most recent develop tary or naval duty. Army War College. CLA8S 2 — All other enlisted ; ments in fire control through the Col. Kitson was born at Belle members of the Ai med Forces in use of a fine spray or “fog.” fonte, Penn., in 1899 and received the U. 8. part of his education in England. Entries should bear the name, i tor, YANK, 205 E. I2d Street, New He was commissioned a first lieu rank and organization of the con- 1 York 17, N. Y. Captions explaining tenant in 1917 and served with the testant and should he cleared the subject jn detail should accom 11th Division until 1919. He was through the Post Public Relations pany each entry. CITIZENS OF ALBANY throne the sidewalks as rolling commissioned a first lieutenant in Office. They must be addressed to Contest opens Nov. 26; closes stock trundles down the streets in Albany’s <rmi«tice celebration the Regular Army in 1920. Camp News Picture Contest Edi- midnight, December 31, 1943. in which the new ly-arrived 91st Division participated. Col. Wilson New ¡Yank Shutter Contest Adair Chief Views Service Command Latest Techniques Offers Bond Prizes Chief of Staff Of Fire-Fighting Review Big Armistice Day Festivities at Albany First Dress Appearance of Potent Division Band SHOWN ABOVE REVIEWING Albany's Armistice Day festivities are (left te right) Maier General William G. Livesay. Commanding General ef the 91st Diviaven; Rav McCormack. Commander Aawriran Legion Past It. Akany; Mayer C. G. Kandell; CeL Rudolph Breedlee. < ummaadang Oftitrr at the Mist Ho«.. Roy H. Collins ef Albany. KiTNal < ALBANY’S TOWNSFOLK GOT the first glimpse of th, erB,h ,lrt Infantry band Armistice Day as it led infantry and artillery troops ef the Fir Tro. Division in a big parade sponsored by Post It, American Legion.