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Page Four Friday, January 7, 1944. Caught by Flash Camera on Night Mission Gl SHORT STORY CONTEST Yank announces a -hort story contest, open to enlisted per sonnel of the armed forces. Stories must be original, un- Camp Adair Sem You're Right! THAT'S a Christmas Tie! Send entries to Fiction Editor, YANK. 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17. N. Y. The author of the story adjudged best by the editors of YANK will get a $50 War Bond. The winning story and any others deemed worthy will be printed in YANK. Entries must be received not later than Mar. 1, 1944. Two Captains Get Their Majority In 91st Division Capts. Elwood \V. Geyer and Os car Creech, Jr.. of the 346th FA Bn. and 316th Med. Bn., respective ly, were elevated to the rank of ma jor last week. Major General Wil liam G. Livesay, 91st Division com mander, has announced. ’ruf ff a «■> « 316th Eng., 91st l>iv. Pin to I HE r LASH UT the camera catches Sgt. C harles Calerman, Maj. Geyer, at present battalion a 91<t Division patrol leader, as he shows the way for his men over executive, came to the 91st Divi h< stile ground. Notice how he carries no unnecessary equipment sion at the time of its activation in that would possibly give him away, and how carefully he steps August, 1942. after graduating along through the tall gras«, putting heel down first. The picture was taken as ( o. H, 362nd Inf., began a night reconnaissance. from Motors School at Ft. Sill, Trailblazer Ph<i Okla. I "I'M SENDING YOU this very UN-GI necktie for Christmas In rapid succession he became with the fond hope that you’ll be able to wear it before the end of battalion motor officer. Serv. Btry. ■ 1911." was the greeting on the card that came with the spotted CO, and executive of the 916th and,, beauty displayed here by S/Sgt. Carl F. Olson, of Div. Hq. Co. Sgt. Olson is laying it away in his foot locker with fond hopes of later, the 346th FA Bn. his own. Maj. Creech, now CO of Co. D of the Med. Bn., has risen rapidly in " hen night settles down on the squads w ill be featured with one the Army. He reported to active! .odern battlefield, the fight is group posting security for a com- duty a little over a year ago as a -ually just beginning, not ending, mand post and another group act- first lieutenant in the Collecting That is why the 91st Division ing as a reconnaissance patrol. Co. of the 316th, having finished as instituted an intensive train- I The reconnaissance patrol will tVien a year in the Medical Reserve g program for night-time black- 'attempt to capture the command Corps as an interne at Charity Fifth speaker in the current ori | of men at Oregon State College ■ut operations. post. Hospital, New Orleans. entation program being conducted who painted a vivid picture of th Must Fight at Night In the 362nd Inf. this week, prob- Last January he was promoted Japanese people and their ways <1 "The individual must be able | leras in the tactical bivouac will to captain, and n month later was in the 316th EngVs. will be Dr. T. to fight almost as well at night [serve as the opening phases of the made CO of Co. B. He held this 0. Brandt, professor of languages life. The assistant G-2 of the 4t as he does in the day time," said | new program. position until July, when he was at Oregon State College, who will Army and former assistant G-2 « Major General William G. Live- The test will call for one com moved to Co. D. speak on life in occupied Europe. the joint Army-Navy amphibiou -ay. division commander. pany to attack another company in The program will be held at The- forces that took Attu, Major Le The latest program calls for bivouac and attempt to capture the of Sgt. Bagley, was the second speaker t atre No. 3 at 0900 tomorrow. og night problems covering every commanding officer. Tear gas, Initiation — -. . 1944 •base of patrolling, night-firing, representing the more vesicant i LOl/Se for Festivity in The 316th Engrs., under the lead appear before the engineers. Th filtration tactics, maneuvering, types, will lie used in the attack. 70th Spec. Trps Club ership of Lt. Col. William C. Hol subject of his lecture was boob 'lifting of units without discovery* Similar problems are also being ley, have increased the interest in traps and their uses in this war. Third speaker in the series, Ma I night attack. run off in the 363rd. Most of the The hands of the clock scissored their orientation programs by pre The night work is part of the work being done this week was a the minutes into seconds. It was senting speakers who have had ac Fred Merryfield, gave the engir ¡vision’s post-maneuver training preliminary to the more advanced midnight. The side door opened tual experiences in foreign combat eers advice on living in the jungle from his personal experiences i tended to keep the personnel in operations contemplated by the G-3 slowly and closed just as furtively, zones. New Guinea. He emphasized par attletrim. section of the division later on. the noise of the movements Thus, the men are able to hear The value of night tactics, well- drowned in the din and merriment first-hand accounts of the enemy ticularly the necessity of guardin Emphasis on Intelligence against malaria, ringworm an \\ ith the lessons of the present executed, has been proven again inside. Stairs and bones creaked they will some day encounter. war as the guide-posts, emphasis and again by American combat simultaneously, and the bent sha other tropical diseases. “The mos Dr. Brandt was born in Vienna, v. ill also be placed on the opera teams, especially in the defense of dow was lost in the foggy dark important thing in a combat are and was in Austria at the time of tion of intelligence sections at . Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. ness. is know your own job and to knot the German occupation. After six ----------------------- night. The G-2s and the S-2s are I Mr. Old ear, the only person months under the German regime, it well,” the Major said. Naw 2-stripers in Btry. B. 862nd the eyes and ears of the com unwelcome and out of place, de he came to the United States. Professor J. Lloyd Le Mastei mander. and they must function FA: F. A. Dewing. J. Hanley, W. parted without a murmur of sor When the ASTU program was professor of law at Oregon Stat -monthly and effectively in or C. Hastings, J. J. Hughes, L. \V row. His membership card in the organized at Oregon State Col der for any outfit to be success Hunt, W. R. Miller, D. F. Stewart, Trailblazer’s Sergeants’ Club had lege, he was assigned to give in College, was the fourth speakei W. E. Streubling, C. R. Wagoner ful. just been permanently revoked. struction in European languages. He explained the uses of the Powe In the 361st Inf. patroling by and H. A. Watson. A new member was immediately First speaker in the current of Attorney and the necessity o added to take his place when Ser series was Dr. U. G. Dubach, dean insurance and wills. The Machine Gun Barks; Dog Doesn't geant 1944 was unanimously voted a year's honorary membership in the club. Toast for the Old; Toast for the Nevr The initiation of the new mem ber was the occasion of one of the most successful social events in the! short history of the Sorgeants’ ( Club, rendezvous of the non-com missioned officers in the first four grade ranks of the 70th Division’s Special Troops unit and their ladies. 91st Training For Fighting at Night 316th Engr. Bn. Liven Orientation Program Knc . »IX l«n Ph GIN 1’0" DER." M (SCOT of Co. F. 3«2nd Inf . shows that he won’t go IWOI. under the «tre-» of battle He stands right by his pal*. S/Sgt. Owcar Boron and Pf«, John Ward, as they put a .»•-cal. light machine gun through it* paces in a night problem, tl*. S. Co. F even brag« that the dog will retri««« the lead upon ctxnmand.) The program of entertainment ( for the hilarious reception of the i C lub s youngest member w as ar- I ranged by S Sgts. Keith Loft field and i 0. K. Skanes of Div. Hq. Det.. with Pfc. Ph il Zoeller of Div. Hq < I <>. adding stimulus to the gala affair throuighout the eve- ning i and early moirning. The t Club, scene of many eriio v» able dances and informal gather ings in its rustic, log-cabin atmos phere during the past two months of its existence, is located on D Ave., just south of 1st St. So. Tr.0bl.r-’ '’*•>' THE CLOSING MINUTES of the last night of the °w !<*' are ba<fe farewell at the 7»th Div. Special Troops Sergeant’ ( lub by Sgt. John Carver and Dorothy Eskew, left, and Sgt. an* Mrs. T. M. Swanson. Yep. that’s coh« (in the coke bottles.)
