Friday, February 4, 1944.
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Camp Adair Sentry
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Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
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I Notes From a Soldier's Sketch
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“I have a perfect news story
for the paper.”
“Yeah, what is it, man bite dog?”
"No better than that, bull throws
sergeant.”
A weekly riewspaper published by and for the military personnel
of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military
Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange.
Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head
quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.”
Ail articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless
specifically credited to the War Department. News material furnished
by the Public Relations Office is available for general release.
Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. 81 — Year $1.50.
Reports from Algiers say that
Yanks down that way are learning
Italian. Two of the first phrases
they pick up are: “In civilian life
I was an houest millionaire" and “I
have no fiancee in America."
The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of- Camp
Newspaper Service.
Capt. J. D. McKay
Director of Training Branch
Lt. William H. Ross
Post Exchange Officer
T/3
I’fc.
'pl.
T/5
Rob Ruskauff
Lionel Kay
Benjamin Hirsihknvitz. I’vt. W in. 8a IUl
Don Lynch..........................................
He who courts and does not
wed
Often into court is led.
Managing Editor
News Editor
Sluff Reporters
Staff Artist
When women drop their eyes
you should always pick them up.
Forget Your Ideals of Sportsmanship :
tiemember That in War. It’s ’Kill or He Killed’
P£6bably one of the most tragic stories growing out of
this war will be woven out of the American ideal of sports
manship.
A crowning virtue when it comes to dealing harmonious
ly with your fellow-man and a priceless asset in all human
relationships, sportsmanship becomes a ticket to oblivion in
combat.
Ever since the first Jap sneak bomb shook the Kansas
du t out of the GI khaki at Pearl Harbor, hundreds of stories
have filtered back from the every-man-for-himself battle
front telling of the many Yankee soldiers who have met death
>r who have stopped bullets but lived to tell about scalp
inkling’ experiences just because they wanted to give the
ither fellow an even break.
Trusting souls, they had forgotten .or “forgot to remem-
ANSWER BOX
>er” that no rules exist for dirty playing in the life-and-deirth
ontest on the battlefield.
By
Q. When I entered the Army last
BOB HAWK
Unlike the football field, on the battlefield no rules exist,
year I took out $10.000 insurance
Quitmatter
but penalties do, and the penalties aren't chalked up to the
naming my wife as beneficiary.
side that does the dirty fighting. The enemy doesn’t lose any
"THANKS
Since then she divorced me and
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TO THE YANKS"
now I want to make the policy
yardage. But Uncle Sam’s gullible GI often loses his life.
payable to my mother. Is it per-
If he doesn't lose that precious but naive hide of his,
Saturdays, CIS 1
mfasable to do this?
he quickly forgets his love of sportsmanyrfuii apd his respect
’or the fair play of the man—or men—on the other team. 1. Must of the crops in this A. Yes, a service man may
Then he begins to fight—and win—on even terms
country are planted in the spring in change his insurance beneficiary
at any time without the knowledge
Don’t wait until your first brush with tfie ruthless I the spring, but some cereal crops or consent of the beneficiary.
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enemy. Forget your sense of fair play now.
lootball and basketball games in which the sneak play has two.
Q. What fatter base'pay of 'an
2. There are several typ4s of
won the game. The enemy’s sneak plays can win this bigger laughter; what's the difference l>e- aviation cadet? '
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gatqe, too, and cost you your life and millions of others.
tween a giggle, a chuckle and a
A. An aviation cadet gets $75 a
Don't think that he’s dead with one bullet wound, make guffaw?
| month and $1 a day for subsist
sure with another bullet. Don’t trust the living enemy; the 3. If a dollar bill is permanently ence during training. Upon the suc
lead ones are much easier to handle. Don't let your guard destroyed, is this a loss or a gain cessful completion of his prescribed
to the U. S. Government?
' course of instruction he is com
down at any time; one sneak punch can be fatal.
4. Cabbage prepared in different missioned a second lieutenant or
Only the alert soldier will be alive when the score is ways has different names. Men
i appointed a flight officer.
minted.—(S Sgt. Edw. J. Connors. 70th Inf. Div.)
tion two of these.
Y A N K « 1 1
Every lassie loves a laddie com
ing through with rye.
“Tell me,” gushed the inquisitive
and doting matron, “do you ever
do anything in the nude?”
“Well, madam." retorted the fam
ous artist, “occasionally I take a
bath.”
Said the gal at the PX counter
to the fresh GI: “I’m sorry, sol
dier, but the notions counter is
over there, not here.”
Worried Mama: What are his in
tentions ?
Daughter: I don’t know, mania;
he keeps me in the dark.
Marriage is like a card game.
You start with a pair; he shows a
diamond; she shows a flush, and
they end up with a full house.
A yawn fa about the only time
some husljjnds go| ¿a open their
mouth. < "
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The yard bird says: “Our mess
sergeant can really dish it out. but
he can’t cook it.”
The doctor was questioning the
nurse about her patient. “Have you
lifept a,chart on his progress?” he
asked.
“No,” she biushingiy replied,
“but I can show yod my diary.”
The dear vicar’s wife had just
died. and. in consequence, he wished
to be relieved of his duties for the
weekend, so he sent the following
message to his bishop: “I regret te
5. Who was the only cabinet
inform you that my wife has just
Q. Is it permissable for a soldier
member to ever address Congress ?
died, ami I should lie obliged if you
fl. Hull. Eden and Molotov are * to wear a Veterans of Foreign could send me a substitute for the
considered the Big Three of the Wars ribbon on his uniform?
weekend . . .”
Today. USO is celebrating its third birthday. The vast army of Moscow conference, Name two of I A. It is nut. The VFW is a civil-
contributor« who have subscribed more than $10t).000.(Mk> to USO the Big Four of the Versailles ian organization and its ribbons
lirougb the National War Fund and local War Ghest campaign might conference.
are not recognized by the War De
like to knew what their money has accomplished.
(Answers-on page 12)
partment as decorations.
Just tT days after USO was incorporated in 1941. the first chib
was opened in a rented building in Anniston, Ala. — «« borrowed
money, at that. Three years later USO has nearly 3.000 operations
m this country and at bases elsewhere in this hemisphere. The figure
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Joes not include the scores of theatrical and musical units operated
inder the banner of USO-Camp Shows.
warships threw tons of explosives against the islands in support of
Catholic, Protestant and Jews are joiricd together in USO in landing forces which captured ten islet beachheads. American Marines
ommon service. Six great organisations are represented in USO captured strategic Roi IMand and airfield—the first piece of pre-war
The roll of member agencies enlists the Young Men's Christian Associ Japanese empire to fall in the fast-breaking offensive. The Marines
ations, the Young Women's Cnrlstian Associations. the National Catholic are mopping up on Namur Island which is expected to fall momentarily.
Actmn is reported to lie progressing favorably at all points. American
1 ommunity Service, the Salvation Army, the Jewish Welfare Board and Action
fliers were reported to have destroyed 5 Japanese planes at Rabaul
the National Travelers Aid Association.
in the first month of the new year....
IN THE AIR WAR OVER EUROPE. American warplanes pounded
anti-invasion target on the north c 1st of Fiance and airfields *n
Holland. Eight hundred heavy bom
raided the German city of
"The Great Nebula of Andromeda appears to the naked eye as but Frankfurt on the heels of a British >ers
as: sault on Berlin and northern
a ‘niisty spot of light.’ None of the millions of suns is distinguishable Germany, raising to fl.OO
1 or- the weight of bombs heaped on Berlin
n itself, but all put together make only a blur, but if seen in its true in the last 75 hours. The
capital itself is believed to have been knocked
die. each sun would dwarf our own. So it is in the matter of our two-thirds out of the war.
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Other American bombers raided W.il-
daily living That habit, that attitude, that decision, that word may helmshaven. larg
' base in Germany ..
appear of little consequence, but when added to an accumulating
IN ITALY. BRITISH AND AMERICAN tr. >ps made new advances
nuniher of similar words and deeds may becdtne the controlling influence on Albert beachheads below R«
Utting enemy opposition and pushing
of our lives.
■per inland. In central Italy Ar lerican tanks and infantry practically
“T|ie present global war is but a galaxy of ’little’ sins—yours
the crumbling Nazi Gustav line and
The objective is won
and mine ami others—‘little’ greedinesses, bits of selfishness, a touch fought to the outskirts of
. IB miles southeast of Rome, •nd legs and lives have I
of covetousness, of hatred, of prejudice. The peace will lie what we The Geimans were reported w
ng garrisons fr
inside Cassino. These litter earners are
make it in the same way a galaxy of individual forgivenesses. to
American infantry ar.l
d ahead within half a mile of wounded Americans to
aaeea. co-operation, multiplied by millions t'-mnt no act ’little.’ for
•hips in Italy. Are you ss
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I -4 miles from Rome. Allied anything in order to buy m-ov
hidden in it are the issues of life and death fur generations to come."
at
supply
centers
in
northeastern
Roads to help them? "I Let * 1U
>’ U King, in THE UPPER ROOM.
Italy
USO Has Third Birthday
The World This Week
Count, Then, No Act as 'Little'
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