lamp Adair Seni
Friday, January 28. 1944
Faye Four
400 Graduated From
91st "Gas" School
Whole Lot More Than Just Flash in the Dark
Signal Corps Photo
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THIS BEAUTIFUL EXHIBITION of py «technics (fireworks) was caught on the Signal
C’,>r >- camera by I’fc. Joseph Dant despite the mo t adverse conditions. The deceitfully deadly spray
n‘ light in the night is the burst of a white phosphorus shell as it explodes into the air.
Man Alive! Wotta Hot Foot!
Post CWS Section
Issues Supplies
To All Troops
WINNER WEARS MASK
Five ujmble-fipgered. breath­
less GIs slip off helmet liners,
rip open carrier covers: out come
the masks, some faster than
others; five chins go out in
characteristic manner; on go the
masks.
Adjust head harness ... cleat­
face piece . .. smooth out wrin­
kles .... test for leaks .... re­
place helmet liner . . . turn your
hjad .. . snap the carrier flap
. .. come to attention ... raise
your right hand.
The Winnah! ... Cpl. George
Ryde of 346th FA.
A cheer goes up from the can­
noneers in the crowd as Cpl.
Ryde is declared winner in the
speed contest involving all en­
listed men attending the 91st
Inf. Division Chemical Warfare
School.
The Post Chemical Warfare Ser­
vice Office is as hard-working a 316th Medics Win
unit as the divisional units of the
same branch, though, perhaps, in Over Co-eds in
a much less spectacular and more
workaday manner.
Information Quiz
The supply of Adair’s divisional
and attached special troops with
On .January 19 four men of the
CWS supplies and equipment nec­ 316th Medics defeated four co-eds
essary for truining and future com- from Linfield College in the popu­
bat constitutes the principal duty j lar "Information Please” quiz pro­
of Major Earl F. Armstrong, Post I
gram at Service Club No. 1. Score:
Chemical Warfare Officer.
160-145. “
In addition, he is also respons­
The Medics team was composed
ible for the training of the SCU of S/Sgt.-Ralph C. Pearson, Co. D,
Over 400 new instructors jJ
¡uated from the 91st m3
¡Chemical Warfare School this >j
as the rigid two week-course caj
Ito a clpse in a burst of white pU
Jphorus last Friday.
To a man they declared that t
course was the “greatest eye-ope
er they’ve met in the Army."
“There wasn't a thing in chen
eal fighting that we didn’t cove
remarked one instructor, “and tb
includes the famous flai
thrower.”
So familiar with the gas ma
Lt. Col. S. J. Boyles
Lt. R. A. Ahlberg'
before they took the classes tha
they could put it on in their sleed
the officers and non-coms sooj
became equally at home chargin
through a mile-long smoke bat)
rage, using incendiary bombs am
decontaminating buildings.
Perhaps the most surprisin|
revelation of the school was thl
fact that the new white phosphor!
us bombs have a greater casualtl
effect than even high explosives
This was proven statistically aj
S Sgt. David D. Summers, Hq.
well as by actual experience il
Det.,
Sgt.
Edgar
J.
Alter,
Co.
D,
Post Chemical Officer
and Pvt. Tyler C. Jackson, Co. D. Sicily.
The phosphorus, as it was used
Pvt. Jackson won first prize, with
in the school, hurls molten particle!
Sgt. Alter as runner-up.
While the girls missed the an­ in a radius of several hundred feet
swers on how old Shirley Temple is and each particle leaves a burn
and who built the Great Wall of that cannot be stopped by ordin-)
China, they did’manage to evade j ary nleans-
‘One of the least publicized
WHITE PHOSPHORUS ANTI-PERSONNEL bomb burns
the wolves after the program.
phases of the present war is that!
more fiercely as water is applied, in demonstration by 70th Division
While Pvt. Jackson took full j of chemical warfare,” declared LtJ
< hemical warfare section. It’ll burn through your clothing, cause
severe burns. Used in trench warfare.
honors as the Medic with the best) i Col. S. J. Boyles, chemical warfare
answers, he remained silent when ! officer of the division and in com4
asked why he couldn’t date one of
mand of the school, “and yet this
the co-eds . . . just leered and little-talked of arm of the sei vic«)
drooled.
is playing one of the most impor­
tant roles in modern battle, not in
warehouse work is the receiving of the form of gas perhaps, but in a
surplus and defective issue. All dozen other ways far piore dan­
supplies received must be very gerous to the enemy.”
The increasingly vital role that until the arrival of Col. Day.
carefully inspected as to service­
.hemical warfare, in its many
An officer and an enlisted man
Just one example of this is the
Signal Corps Photo
ability, packed, crated or boxed ac­ use of the flame-thrower to destroy
rhnsea, is playing on the world- from each battalion and two EM
Major Earl F. Armstrong
cording to prescribed Army Regu­ pill boxes.
flung stages of modern battle is from each company and battery
being explained to more than 250 throughout the 70th Division are and attached NSC troops in the lations and then reported to the
The new instructors are to re­
officers and non-coms of the 70th being schooled in the multi-phased latest developments in chemical depot for disposition.
turn to their units to pass on the
Division by means of interesting field operations of chemical war­ warfare.
In some special instances unserv­ latest methods. It is intended that
lectures and colorful demonstra­ fare in the two-week’s course and
S Sgt. Ray Salvano, chief clerk ) iceable equipment must be repaired every man in the division will be
tions in the current school being will graduate as battalion and of the section, and his four assist­ by the small group of CWS men, thoroughly trained, in not one, but
conducted by the staff of the Chem­ company gas officers and NCOs. ants supervise the issue of gas although this is normally a func­ all aspects of chemical warfare-
Particular stress is being laid on masks, tear gas grenades, smoke tion of the units or organisations
ical Warfare Section.
Lt. Rodney A. Ahlberg assisted
The classes, which cover a 30- gas warfare because of the ever­ bombs, and other special CWS am­ turning in the property.
Col. Boyles in the instruction and
hour instruction course from the, present threat of its use as a last munition so that the 70th, 91st and
All this is not spectacular worlf, performance of demonstrations for
.
i report by the retreating enemy, attached AGF units may continue but just another phase of the Army the school.
simple process of
: ') Col. Day said.
adjusting a gas
their training schedules without Service Force task of keeping
b
| The laying uf
of smoke screens and delay.
, Ground Force troops well supplied
Let your shekels shackle Shickel-
mask to the corp-)
B itheir
to; Another important phase of and equipped.
their proper uses, which has led to
gruber—BUY BONDS!
plex methods of
many Allied victories, decontam-
. eutr.-u.'ir.g laud!
' ¡nation methods. and the techniques
Like Myriad Mists in the Night'
mines, are held
1 of handling frangible grenades,
every other after-1
hand grenades, land mines, and
noon in the 370thl
'anti-personnel bombs were includ-
Mid Bn. rec hall*
1 ed.in the school-
C D*»
and urea under«
the d a i . Don of Lt. Col. Harry C. Monday Night Dance at
Day, Chemical Warfare Officer,
The c ■iirse, which began January Salem Armory Will Aid
17 . will end with an examination Victims of Infantile
next Tuesday.
The Society 40 et 8. and the
l.t. Col. l*ay. who joined the
Trailbla’er Division recently fre-h American Legion are sponsoring a
from ove seas duty with a task dance for the benefit of the vic­
force, and who brings first-hand tims of infantile paralysis at the
know! >dire of the operation of Salem Armory next Monday night
chem ii al units in recent Allied en­ at 9 p. m.
It is expected that the biggest'
counters. is being assisted by Lt.
Anthony J. Apruixese. M Sgt. Mar­ crowd of the year will be in at­
cellus T. Holtel, Tec3 Edward H. tendance as an intensive advance
LaVellav Sgt. Harold K. Vroom, and sale of tickets is being conducted <
91st
Service men are especially in-1 taken in the*hemi*cal \\ * *} *
Pvt. Frank Wagenknight. Lt.
plunge throug a «moke barrage on the attack. The picture »**
Aprotaese. formerly of the ‘.‘•’th vited. The ticket.« are 50c each
eluded
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Division, had been division CWO and cau be obtaiued al the door.
pa-« the information*along1"** ' W*r^,r*
instructors who could return to their units
Trailblazers Schooled
In Chemical Warfare
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