Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944, January 21, 1944, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextCamp Adair Sentry _____________ _____________________ Friday, January 21, 1944.__________________ Primeval Strip Tease * * ★ Geyser ★ + ★ Page Three What's Use of It All? Improvised open- y in operated by I Bn.. 274th Inf. >f that the M-l is Les Brown Bend Wows EM at Coca Cola Show A small handful of blonde dyna mite named Kim Kimberley sans what “My Heart Tells Me.’’ to in trigue two packed houses of GIs at Field House last night as the Coca Cola Co. of Salem brought Les Brown and his nationally-famous jive band to Camp Adair. She did it again singing “Mexico City” to vie for top spot in soldier favor with Butch (Knock Me a Kiss) Stone in his rendition of “GI Jive’’. Brown and his musical aggregation played Coca Cola’s Victory Parade Spotlight broadcast over NBC Blue Network at 6:30. They repeated the performance for GIs only at 8 o’clock. Tonight they play at .Jantzen Beach, Portland, while the Coca Cola progiam switches to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where Abe Lyman’s band will perform at the U. S. Naval Air Station. Tuesday I.es Brown and his boys will again appear rn the Coca Cola show' from Gowen Field out of Boise, Idaho. For one moment of last night’s program (one of the few big-time shows seen at this Post), a special tribute to Camp Adair was read by Jackson Wheel, r. regular West Ccast announcer for the show. Fortifying the Les Brown troupe for their three hours of performing after arrival from Portland at noon, they were served a roast beef dinner at Service Club I. The band was to depart for Portland again after last night’s show. 274th Gets Baptism Under Fire as Men Run First Infiltration Course Col. Thomas R. Gibson. CO cf the 274th Inf. led his men through infiltration cour e No. 80 for their first "bapti-m under fire” last Monday. The men of the regiment, having completed their rigid basic train ing. put their knowledge ard train All visitors at the Station Hos ing into practice under simulated pital must first obtain passes at battle conditions. The infiltration course consisted the Information Desk. of cleveily arranged baibed wire entanglements, craters, nitro- ehaiges, and overhead machine gun fire wbi h kept everyone crawling on their stomachs or sliding on their backs while slowly worming their way through 110 yards of slippery, slimy mud and slush. The entire regiment ran the course as a lequirement to obtain the much coveted Infantryman’s Medal. Despite the use of high explosives and live ammunition no casualties were suffered. This is high tribute to the train ing and courage of the men and to the safety mea«ures employed by Capt. J. L. Meyer, CO of Co. M, under whose direction the course was constructed and run. “When you arrive overseas,»it is too late to begin learning your job, but by paying attention to duty now, you ran enter combat with the assurance that you are a well-trained soldier.” The General concluded his speech by pointing to the fine record made by the 91st Division, not only on the West Coast, but throughout the country as an organization that wan neat and courteous at all times. He askerl the new men to con tinue and to add to the splendid record of military d i s c i p I i n a achieved by the division. Go to church on Sunday.