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Vol. 2 No. 45 Camp Adair, Oregon, Friday, February 25, 1944. $1.50 a Year by Mail 91st BOXERS TAKE 70th War ♦-------- 5-0 Defeat in Rugged Battles 4 New 'Trailblazer' On Sale Tuesday Essay Winner Prisoner Cronin Says 'Japs Mad Dogs' Manila AP Head Cites Crimes in On page 5 the Sentry today presents the two winning es Impassioned Address to Adairmen says in the 91st Division’s big Pics, Cartoons Show i Men at Work and Play contest which concluded this By S Sgt. Edward J. Connors week. Writing on the subject, i 3000 See Field House I “ The only good Jap is a dead Jap," Raymond P. Cronin, I Here comes the new "Trailblaz “Why I Fight,” the winner. for eight years head of the Manila Bureau of the Associated Action; Jeffrie KO of er!” | Tec5 Bernie Smith, won first) Press and recently returned from a horrifying 21-month ex- Perillo Heavy 'Upset' *------------------------------------- 4pcrience as a prisoner of the Japs, The big, new book, full of pic prize, a $25 War Bond. j I said in an impassioned voice last tures, jokes, cartoons and general By Tec3 Bob Ruskauff Tec5 Smith, a former MGM [Monday afternoon in Theatre No. ly’ interesting dope on the work The national magazine that sells •5, before nearly a thousand officers and play of the soldiers of the 70th script writer, is editor of the for a dime likes "kicker” endings land men of Camp Adair. Division, will be on sale in com- ■ 362nd Inf. house organ “Mag to its stories. pany day-rboms. beside the pay-' gie’s Drawers.” Impressing on them the fact that I Fourth War Loan Drive Nears End This magazine would have glor • table, next Tuesday. 'the imperialistic sons of Nippon ied in the wind-up to Wednesday, ns ot>i pnotograpneu f* It’s an an all-GI j job, photographed can’t be trusted under any circum night’s boxing show at Field Hou«e ' written .riUen and and made up by i Ilf With four days of War Depart- stances and must be wiped out, the made up 1 the Trail-| K|Q in which a KO right-haud punch i,]azcr public relations section of, ** , ment participation in the 4th War veteran journalist, who had the op that came out of a fox-hole and-G2. it M|] for «5 cents, and ’’ Washington (CNS)—The Army’s Loan Drive still remaining, indica- portunity to know th« Jap mental exploded like a grenade on the maihng wrapl>crs wiU be furnished candidate schools, which tions are that in most cases the ity in all walks of life in the Phil jaw of heavyweight Pvt. Anthony jree to a|j w^o wal,t them. | have a total of 240.000 graduate*! set quotas w ill not only be met ippine Islands, reminded the sol Perillo, finished the evening, The issue strikes a new note in now have been reduced to a month- but exceeded, diers of the 70th and the 91st Divi brought 3,000 wild-eyed customers make-up and picture lay-outs, equal '• graduation list of from 2,500 to | Post civilian employees are well I sions that the Jape are treacherous. surging down to the ringside and in appearance to the best national 4,000 with a further cut in pros- ¡over the “90'e participation and "Fanatical. Mad Dogs” gave the boxer’s of the 91st Divi picture magazines. Among special Pe<'L according to the W ar Depart- .10% deduction” goal and have al “They are fanatical, mad dogs sion team a 5-0 win over the features: ment. ready earned for themselves a place His training under the Bushido fightmg Trailblazers. 1 High point fn-OCfl graduations on the Ninth Service Command’s teaches him tn die. He has no Plenty to Lure! I The fights, the first truly inter- A typical GI day* done in pic was reached in December, 1942, Roll of Honor for installations that respect for human life, not even divisional meeting on the Post, tures. with all the laughs and when 23.000 candidates became of have gone “over the top” in the hi« own." rank with the best yet held at groans that are the lot of the sol ficers. Between June. 1942, and No. current drive. I Giving his first lecture in any Camp Adair’s splendid arena of dier in any 24-hour stretch; a spec vember, 1943, almost 15,000 of the I Divisional units are seething large Army training camp in this swat. Give full credit to the 5-0 ial Timmons story with pictures graduates were enlisted men select with war bond activity. Returns are country, the touring journalist was score—but don’t let it deceive you and cartoons, chronicling a new ad- ed in the combat areas and sent still coming in. and final tallies introduced to the soldiers by Mai. too entirely. I venture of the TOth’s already-leg- home for training. 1 are being withheld until the last Gen. John E. Duhlquist, Command Likelihood is that if training endary hero; an original “Sad ing General of the Trailblazer ' moment. . . . . . - schedules permit, pugilists of these Sack” cartoon drawn specially for * . With no let-up in activity, it Division. He was the guest of the two crack infantry divisions will Trailblazers by Sgt. George Bak- AlT AACClal AWOrCJ appears that 91st Division commit- 70th Division for the day. Arrange er of “Yank“; more than 125 pic mix it again. They should. , ments may yet reach the stag ments for his appearance and lec There was guts and go in every tures of Trailblazers in all branches ture were made through the Port gering sum of $500,000. 'Continued >n cage 6. column 3) j .Continued on page 7, column 11 Anticipating a bond-buying pay land Oregonian and the Associated Today at formal retreat on Post day, the 70th Division bond office | Press. r Parade Grounds the Air Medal with has estimated that its total figure j He deplored the complacency t three oak leaf dusters will be ac at the end of the month will reach (Continued on Page 11, Column 1) cepted I y a Camp Adair soldier on . 200.000. (Picture on Page 4) liebalf of his brother, now a prison er of war in Germany. "How come that theah?” fed Awarded to S. Sgt. John H. Ben- On a cold and -tormy morn las» week. Lt. W. H. Ford. Survey Of back Pvt. John ‘Meatball’ Jack- Ison of the Sth Air Force “for ex Monitored by Teel John Stump ceptionally meritorious achieve ficer of Hq. Btry., 348th Bn., broke | son. AIK INVASION OF THE CONTINENT ami victories in Russia out with a new field trench coat. “Well,” said Anderson, wiping a ments” while participating in 20 and the Pacific chalked up successes for the Allies while the Germans Nestled down into its wool-lined drop from a raw red nose, “if any separate bomber combat missions, held their own in Italy—on the battlefronts of the world this week . . . hood, the lieutenant resembled thing ever happens to him, we j the Medal will be accepted by his BRITISH ANT) AMERICAN FLIERS, in stunning blows, have put nothing more than a streamlined want to make damn sure one of us | brother, Cpl. George Benson of a big dent in German air production. The RAF gave Leipzig its heaviest Eskimo. gets that wonderful coat.” Ander Btry. C, 198th AAA Bn. ttack of the war while Yank airmen followed up with u 2000-plane That morning his survey crew son rubbed his hands together and Formal presentation will be made aid on six plane centers in the greatest daylight raid of the war. stood by. shivering, miserable and , ran his eyes up and down the gar- | by Col. E. C. Snow, Commanding Ameiicans were believed to have knocked out a quarter of Germany’s envious, while Lt. Ford relaxed in ' ment. I Officer. 7th Hqs. Ill corps, in the fighter plane production. Other bombers stru. k at Germany. Holland, the recesses of his clothes. The warm smile disappeared presence of all officers and men targets in northern France and the Pas De Calais area. German bomb "When and if we get into com from Lt. Ford’s face, of the 198th AAA Bn., Lt. Col. ers inflicted heaviest casualties and damage in raids on London since bat,” chattered Tec5 ‘Swede’ An i “Men,” he said in cool but*ob- Carl S. Fischer commanding. Fol- the blitz of 1940-41. . . . derson, "we’re going to have to keep liging tones, ‘should I take it off? Towing the presentation, the entire GERMAN COl’NTERATTAt KS AGAINST the Allied beachhead a close watch on Lt. Ford—never Maybe you'd like to try’ it on for battalion will parade in review below Rome are stilll ranging. Backed by hundreds of planes, American size?”—Pvt. H. L. Sutton. formation. let him out of sight.” (Continued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 4) To Hero's Brother Lt.'s Warm Smile Fades When Shivering EM Get Disconcerting Ideas on His Coat : The World This Week
