Camp Adair Sentry
Thanksgiving Show
70th Div. Highspot
Friday, November 19, 1943.
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Club 1 Program to Be
Presented Over KEX
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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.