Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1944)
Camp Adair Sentry Friday, March 17. 1944. Page Five TRAILBLAZER’S YAKIMA TREK Y akima ’Okay'With Trailblazer Divarty Ä Treks into Yakima—4 Mites, 50 Minutes—'Or Else’ By Pvt. Koby Wentz Sage-brush, smooth brown hills, wind and sky—that’s Yakima, where the Trailblazer artillery plays its war-games. It’s as different from “Swamp” Adair as could be imagined; here are fir-clothed hills,♦------------------------------------------------ mud and occasional gray skies; I ’the chapel, although the pictures there the soil is powder-dry and seemed a little old—"Wake Island” the skies are a cold, brilliant blue. was one of the current attractions They told this reporter that the last week. weather has been almost uniform Y’ou can go to town most nights, ly rainless during their five-week and there's bus service from camp. stay. Likewise, it is colder than Yakima rates pretty high with the the proverbial mother-in-law's ca boys. It’s about the size of Salem, ress, with the knife-edge native to but more interesting from a lot of high, dry, desert air. angles—cr curves—to hear them Living conditions aren't bad at tell about it. The main drags are all; to infantry GIs, accustomed to brilliantly neon-lit. and the restau shelter-halves and foxholes the rants are good and numerous. | minute they set foot outside Adair, There’s a big USO with all the I they would seem sinfully luxur usual fixings and services. ious. When you roll into camp, a few miles outside town, you’re Chimney Sweep shown to a board-floored pyramidal tent, shared by five other soldiers. In the center squats a pot-bellied cast-iron stove in which red em bers glow 24 hours a day. When you get up in the freezing dawn, a shovelful of coal on them has the tent warm in a few minutes, al though coal’-smoke occasionally fills the interior. Trailblazer BTRY A. 725th FA, mastering the final eient in the physical fitness tests — the fuur-mile hike, done in 50 minutes or else. In the desert near Yakima. Phone Crew at Work—and Yet the Boys Are Cold You spread your bedroll on a canvas cot, turn out the electric light, and drop off into a sound sleep. Chow is via the mess-kit route, but there are indoor messhalls to eat it in. They call the mail while you’re eating chow, and you shovel THIS TELEPHONE of Trailblazer artillerists at Yakima were almost to busy to and definitely too busy to give their names to the photographer. They’re reporting registering grub with one hand and reach for fire. Yep, it ’ s as cold as they look. your sugar’s, letter S'M* the other. The water in the GI Cans where you slosh the eating-tools is really With Tongue Hanging Out Trailblazer Photo \GI Still Operating boiling-hot, too. ON-THE-SPOT repairs at Ya At Same Old Stand There’s a PX in camp, very much kima—Trailblazer GI does rough- like the orthodox Camp Adair vari and-ready job of chimney-sweep Back Port Moresby (CNS) ety. You can get beer and the usual ing by dropping cobbles down the stove-pipe into stove in pyramid home in the town of* New York noncomitants. There are movies in al tent. Sgt. Richard Tarsias ran a beauty I _| , ,, . I . ■ 1! ■ I . ■ J. I I I - II j shop. Here in New Guinea he is I doing the same sort of work. Incapacitated for further com- bat action during the Buna paign. Sgt. Tarsias opened j Moresby’s first beauty salon at the request of Special Services, llis That gray-headed photographer’s | swung his arm down and Pfc. customers are American nurses wheeze about the face fit to break Charles Fuquay yanked the lan and Red Cross girls. a camera never really came true, yard. I but Capt. George H. Godfrey. There was an ear-shattering I Captain, With 11 Rocks TrailblaZer public relations offi r.mr, and Capt. Godfrey pressed ¿OptU^S 1 1 Germans cer, has a better one. the shutter-l«ver. Nothing hap- ’ Last week at the Yakima artil I pened. He swung back the focus- Italy '(CNS)—Capt. Anderson lery firing center, the captain ing hood and looked Trailblazer Pnoto inside his Smith peeked into a cave and OF COURSE. that four-mtle hike in 50 minutes, coming at walked up to No. 2 gun of Battery Í camera. the end of all the other physical fitness tests, is tough but not as yelled: “Is anybody there?" “Yah,” C. 725tb FA, and got set to take a tough as the Trailblazer with the tongue would have yoa think. The ground - glass focussing two Germans replied, walking out. picture of the big weapon firing. Btry. A. 725th FA. at Yakima. He planted himself and an ex screen lay on the reflecting mirror, Capt. Smith, unarmed, picked up his first flight, thought he saw a IN WHAT TOSAN? pensive Graflex about 20 feet to one smashed into a score of pieces, two rocks. Out came a third Ger town name painted on a big barn side and well to the front of the 155 mute testimony to the power of a man and the captain picked up an Randolph Field, Tex. — Some awl swooped down to investigyita. other rock. He had 11 rocks in his mm. howitxer's muiale, and waited. 155. The moral ? That a camera is no hands when he marched his cap where above the plains of the great “Go to church Sunday,” the hug« Came the command “Fire!” over Southwest, a young pilot, lost on letters read. tives back to camp. match fur the field artillery. the field phone; Sgt. H. C. Johnson I Expensive Camera lakes Very Short End i In Bout With 155 mm. Howitzer Concussion BEGINNING Of THE BURPEES THE REAL WORK BEGINS Traitblar« Phot« THESE TRAILBLAZERS* of Btry A. 725th FA. are much more sprightl) at these bargee«, than the« "ere a little later on in the physical fitne«- testa conducted last week at Yakins. DEFLECTION ZEE-RO, TWO, ZEE-RO'. Tra Ubiate» Photo MI>EFLE< TION ZEE-RO . . . TWO . . . ZEE ROT Two men of IM nm. hb itMr »ection. Btry. < , E the nifliU on the \rltllrr> firing rinp,