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Victor Mature, the reason why wom
en leave home, just returned from 15
months of combat duty with the Coast
Guard in the North Atlantic, and
Singer Joan Wineberg will be at Club
1 on Feb. 12 at 1415 to autograph war
bonds purchased at an informal bond
rally.
Vol. 2 No. 42.
New Trailblazer Mag
To Be 'Strictly GI’
Division Project Now
Run Entirely Dy 70th
“Strictly GI”—that is the label
that can be tacked on the new ver
sion of the Trailblazer Magazine
which has been taken over as a
purely division project and will be
published for, by and about the
70th GIs without any civilian con-
n ection.
The entire magazine will be new
and different from any previous
editions. Combining the format and
style of Life and Look, the Trail
blazer Magazine will contain:
More pictures and more names
than ever before; all original pic
tures that have never appeared in
print; a photographic essay, “A
GI Day” by the division's own
photographers.
A pictorial series by Les Old
man, one of America’s best-known
news cameramen and staffman of
the Oregon Journal; the first photo
graphic appearance of Timmons,
the hapless hero of tjie popular
weekly Sentry yarns.
Cartoons by Trailblazer artists:
photographs snbmitted by amateur
photographers throughout the 70th;
a picture record of the successful
completion of the division’s rookie
days; and representative material
from every Trailblazer unit.
The new Trailblazer will «hit the
stands the end of this month. It is
being prepared by the 70th G-2
section, public relations office, and
will be distributed through company
orderly rooms.
361st Reaches Its
Goal, 'Berlin/ In
91st Bond Drive
Carrying the fight to the enemy
with every dollar they can spare,
the men of the 91st Division have
pushed their War Bond Drive to a
total of $230,325. With a month of
the drive still left, almost half the
distance to the goal of $500,000
has been covered.
Reports early Wednesday morn
ing showed that the 361st Inf.,
which has been leading all the way.
had more than filled its quota with
purchases of $100,581. Co. M leads
the regiment with a total of $9350.
The 362nd Inf., which is in sec
ond place, is still quite far behind
the leader with purchases total
ing $54,000.
The center of interest these days
is the huge map on the wall of
division HQ which registers the
advances of the various units as
they move toward their objective—
Berlin—half a million dollars.
Camp Adair. Oregon, Friday, February 4, 1944.
Measures His Little Baby Bare
$1.50 a Year by Mail
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Picture Frame Queen
To Be Picked by YOU
SOLDIER SOUGHT
Would the 70th Division sol
dier who was in the Senator Ho
tel lobby, Salem, Oregon, about
midnight January 26-27, and
who pointed out a suspicious ci
vilian to an MP, please contact
Lt. M P. Farrell at telephone
number 2442?
Every man in Camp Adair will
have his chance in the next ten
days to vote for and boost his
candidate for the title, “Queen of
the Picture Frame.” To the win
ning girl will go a handsome prize
and the honor of ruling as queen
at Club 1 Valentine’s formal dance.
For the past six months the
Sentry has been running its Pic
ture Frame Girl of the Week to
prove (to whomever it may con
cern) that the girl employees of
Camp Adair have as much on the
ball as the best of Hollywood and
Broadway stars. Only two or three
The long overdue SCU Medical of the featured girls have not been
Detachment NCO Club will have Post employees.
its formal opening tomorrow night
In conjunction with the opening
with a distinguished list of guests of the newly-refurbished Club 1,
to honor the occasion. Col. Charles Mrs. Margaret Blodgett and Miss
W. Comfort, .Jr.. Post surgeon, and Dorothy (Stevens, hostesses of the
Col. Samuel D. Hays, Post com club, conceived the idea for this
mander, head the list, which in- contest.
Ieludes all the officers and nurses
All the former Sentry- Picture
| from the Station Hospital and Frame Girls that are still working
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I many others from other units on ,,n the Post, and there are 19—
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the Post.
'(count ’em—19, now have their pic-
Untold quantities of 3.2 bever- tures ppsted on the club bulletin
age will flow freely for the occa- ’ board. ' —
Every man on the Post is
Toth lii- ph.»!» sion and special refreshments and entitled to vote for his favorite.
.MRS. JEAN WACHTEL, Philadelphia, couldn't send hus
a buffet supper have also been
A ballot box is located right next*
band Pvt. Laurence Wachtel. of the Trailblazer Division Hq. Co..
prepared. Sgt. Joe Sieff and his to the hostess’ office, and all one
their six-months-old daughter. Laurie Jean, so she did the next
Rio Grande Valley Dixieland hep- has to do is to fill C
,.e printed
best thing—laid Laurie on a sheet of wrapping paper and traced
’ tet will provide music for dancing, ballots with the name of his choice
her outline so Daddy could see how Baby had grown since hr was
inducted, five months ago. Pvt. Wachtel, who is with G-4. 70th
j The club, which was built from and his own name and organisation
HQ. is shown measuring Laurie's growth.
the foundation up by the Medic and drop it into the box.
i NCOs alone, was first started in
All the girls have been invited
August, 1943. Under the guiding to attend the big formal dance
influence of M/Sgt. John Birkes, which will take place on Valentine’s
hospital sergeant major and first Day, February 14. Voting will con
president of the club, the building tinue until the last minute, when
gradually took shape.
the ballots will be counted and the
The Oregon CIO donated large winner announced.
Because of his prompt and ingenious use of materials quantities of equipment for the The winning lassie will be
at hand when an accident occurred while serving as range club — some $7500 worth of lum- crowned as Queen of the Picture
guard. Pfc. Clarence E. Maxwell, 2nd Bn. Hq. Co., 274th Inf., (Continued on page 3, column 4) (Continued on page 11, column 21
will soon be presented the Legion
of Merit at a formal review before
Destination — Berlin — $500,000!
the men of the 70th.
Official notification of the award |
came in a War Department general
order last week, following the orig
inal recommendation by Col. Thom
as R. Gibson. CO of the 274th.
Displaying a high degree of phys
ical and mental alertness, ingenu
ity and resourcefulness when a
truck overturned near his post,
Pfc. Maxwell used a fence post as
a lever and a rifle as a prop to
keep the weight of the vehicle off
the survivor who was pinned un-
deaneath.
Before help arrived. Maxwell ad
ministered first aid, substantially
reducing the seriousness of the ac
cident.
The Legion of Merit is the
fourth highest award that may
be presented to an Amer ica n
soldier.
Medics NCO Club
To Open Formally
Tomorrow Evening
Legion of Merit Won
By Pfc. Maxwell, 70th
The World This Week
Monitored by Text John Stump
THOUGH THE ALLIES WERE ON the move on all front, of the
world this week, attention shifted to the Pacific to the major action
there....
AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND MARINES opened big attacks
against three main Japanese strongholds in the isles of Kwajalein Atoll
in the Marshall Islands. In a day and night bombing, planes and
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Stasai Corp« Pturfs
JI loyd V. Jehnson discu-s the big "Target —
PVT. CHARLES D. DIN NIE (left) and I
Berlin" map which hangs in 91st Division HQ le rec
the progress of the division towards its 4th War
Bond Drive genl of a cool halfmillion
The 301st Inf. is “over the top." having accomplished Its
SIM. 000 objective shortly after thia picture of the operations was taken—a fell month ahead of time.
Division troops. however, are lagging so far behind that they may possibly endanger the seeress of
the overall movement.