Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, March 24, 1944.
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Sunday USO Schedules Include Big
Birthday Party, Dehydration Trip l
OVER THE TOP IN AGF COMBAT INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Among items in your weekly i
SATURDAY SWING
USO schedule—if your birthday ' There’ll he plenty of music, both
comes in March, don't ntis» the Cor- sweet and swing, for your dancing
vallis USO's big birthday party . Saturday night at the Albany
Sunday evening. All Gia will take ■ USO’s regular weekend dance, front
part, but those born in March will i 2100 to 2300.
lie especially honored . . . cake and 1
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all . . . Salem's Chemeketa USO I FREE SINKERS ANI> COFFEE
trip this Sunday will be to the
From 0030 to 1200 each Sunday
Paulus’ Dehydration Plant—you’ll morning is Breakfast Club time
see how potatoes are dehydrated at the Albany USO. and free
for overseas shipment . . . Albany, doughnuts and coffee are given to
USO keeps -plugging its Bingo on all servicemen who stop by the
Friday nights—must lie good . . .¡USO. They’re good, too.
Happy Birthday!
A custom followed for many
months now, the March birthday
party of the Corvallis USO will
honor Adair GIs born during this
month on Sunday evening.
All soldiers at the USO will par-
ticipate, but a special birthday
cake will lie served to the honorees,
replete with candles, frosting and
tradition. Punch will be among the
items served, with dancing to fol
low the birthday party.
Potatoes Dehydrated
This Sunday, GIs will have a
chance to see how potatoes are de
hydrated for overseas use, the
Chemeketa Street USO, Salem, has
announced.
At 1400 the bus will leave the
USO building to take a group to
the Paulus’ Dehydration Plant,
where they will be shown potatoes
being reduced 6’i times their nor-
mal bulk, to be shipped abroad,
This ought to prove interesting to
men who will be eating this food
when they are in combat areas,
the USO reports.
MOVIES AND SING
The Ritz Brothers and Don
Ameche will take over at the Al
bany USO Sunday- at 1400 and 2015
in “The Three Musketeers," a com
edy- farce. At 1900 a sing will be
held—and anytime during the af-
ternoon the brand - new record
player is available.
GAMES FOR ALL
Wednesday will find bridge and
pinochle at the Albany USO, with
prizes awarded at each table,
Thursday, chess and checkers will
be played.
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'Wisco' Rates High
Your favorite “We Work for
Wisco” broadcast, which goes over
the airways from the stage of
George White’s Servicemen Cen
ter’s Little Theater Sunday eve
nings at 2130, was awarded the
envied Hooper Survey citation of
having a 45.5 percent of the total
listening public tuned to the show
for the last five-months period.
This brings a national rating of i
12.8, which is plenty good. Adair
GIs who saw the show last winter
in Field House will agree.
SWING YOUR PARTNER!
Old-time dances at the Cheme-
keta USO, Salem, suffered a slump
SIS HOPKINS’ GANG
when the change from Wednesday
Remember those merry Grant
night to Thursday night was made.' High school gals that put on such
but the group is back to normal a good show at George White’s
size now, with growing enthusiasm, about a month ago? Well. Sis Hop-
Square dances (Quadrilles!, old kins and her gang are coming to
time waltzes, the Varsovienne, Tril the main floor loung Saturday at
by, three step, rye waltz and Schot- 2000 for another program.
tische are danced to the music of
Mitchell’s old-time orchestra.
STARLETS’ SHOW SATURDAY
Saturday morning at 1100 the
Bingo Tonight
“Stars of Tomorrow" will present
Judging from reports, one of their weekly broadcast over Station
the most popular nights at the Al KGW-KEX from the third floor of
bany USO comes on Friday, when George White’s Center. If you want
bingo is in full swing. Prizes are to take a chance before the mike,
awarded for winners of each game, be sure to attend the show, for 10
minutes is given over to GIs.
and playing starts at 2000.
Trailblazer Artillery
Due Bock on Post Soon
Trailblsxrr Pbois
(PHOTO 1) (pl. Hubert E. Johnson. 276th Inf. I A R Platoon, shows ho» to cut barbed wlr
in the AGF combat intelligence tests. (Photo 2) I’fc. Rex H. Cornelius passed under barbed wire en
tanglements in the AGF combat intelligence tests, shows how its done. (Photo 8) Pfc. A. F. Much-
iewicz. 276th Inf., advances toward a trench-crossing by creeping technique. He’s taking the AG’
individual combat intelligence tests in scouting and patrolling. I.t. B.
Cox is the umpire. (Photo I
Pvt. W . J. Wallachoy, 276th Inf., illustrates just how you should cross a trench on a reconnaissance
patrol, in the AGF combat intelligence tests.
70th Finishes AGF Combat Tests
The deserted area shows signs of a recent—and hurried*--------------------------------- -7—
—evacuation. Here a paper which may be an enemy field i barriers; crossing trenches; f 1-
order; there a situation-map; a Nazi uniform still hangs in ¡lowing a 3-leg compass-course af
a closet; a helmet lies where its*
ter having lieen given azimuth*;
owner forgot it; abandoned mess i collective efficiency in recon selecting and taking the best ava ■-
I _ li _ cover
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gear lies about . . . this is a Ger naissance work will be examined, ¡able
in the vicinity in a _ tn
13-
man command-post as its occu
From the abandoned German second period; selecting the best
pants left it, with, incidentally, a “command post” described aliove, covered approach to a house;
few booby-traps for unwary Amer reconnoitering Trailblazers are ex serving an object outside a hcu 4e
icans.
pected to glean information ax to from inside.
Through such set-up scenes as i what enemy outfits were in the
Tests simulate actual com at
this—and many other just-as-prac- neighborhood (from uniform insig conditions. Units reconnoiter '■no
tical situations. Trailblazer intel nia, etc.) recent enemy troop dis course along which the 70th Divi
ligence units worked this week as positions, possible new weapons, sion will "advance” in a few hou »,
they underwent the combat intel general data on the state of the determining if any enemy eleme t*
ligence tests prescribed by Army I enemy’s morale as shown by the are in the neighborhood.
Ground Forces and conducted here condition of his recent offices, etc.
The tests will, determine if Tn 11«
by 70th Division G-2 section.
Individual testing includes such I blazer intelligence troops are (’on
Units tested included regimental : items as proficiency in hand and the ball” and up to the job of g -t-
I & R platoons, battalion head I arm signals ; how to walk over ting and‘bringing back to heel
quarters intelligence unit* and in ,both hard and soft ground; through quarters the vital informal >n
dividual soldiers from infantry tall grass, at night; stream cross without which an army—or Di :-
ing; barbed-wire cutting; how to sion—in th« field is virtually bl d
rifle companies.
. pake under four-strand barbed-wire : and deaf,
Individaal testa stress effi
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ciency in the difficult arts of
scouting and patrolling, by day ,
and by night. For the units, their I
By Pvt. Roby Wentz
Close to the completion of their Army Ground Forces Artillery Fir Benzed/ene Now Used
ing Test* at the Yakima, Wash., Firing Center, the Trailblaeer artil For 'Pep' by Fliers
lery should soon be once mere a part of the Camp Adair scene— and
( ANS)—Benzedrene, the "pep
part of the chow-lines in Service*------------------------ -
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drug” that college student* used -
Club restaurants.
Technique Braised
to use for aD-night cramming for f
Conducted under the direction of
It’s difficult country to oper tough final exams, is now helping
HI Corps umpires, the tests were
ate in. and difficult country to
divided into three basic types of camouflage in. Officers of the Yank fliers overcome fatigue un- ,
der grueling battle conditions. Ac
a rt illery operation:
artillery give high praise to the
L—The quick occupation and or camouflage techniques employed cording to Maj. Gen. David N. W.
Grant, air surgeon, writing iu Air
ganization of a gun position, and
which made difficult or impos Force Magazine. • henzedrene is
the speedy delivery of effective
sible the spotting of many a bat- helping fliers win their battle
fire on observed targets.
| tery located in »hat »as virtual- against sleep, as well as against
2— The placing of effective sur
j ly naked terrain.
weather and the enemy. Gen. Grant
prise fire on unobserved targets.
This involved a detailed prelimin-. There’.« more to the artillery than says that this drug is the most
ary survey of the target area, with guns, There are the observation satisfactory of any available in
posts, out ahead of the gun posi- temporarily postponing sleep when
ao initial adjustment of fire.
from which the wire-line* the desire for sleep endanger* the
tion«.
3— The night occupation of a gun !
position, with high-burst registra-l run back to fire-direction centers. security of a mission. It will not
ion on unobserved target.«, after a There are the wire men and truck«, produce supermen, Gen. Grant
the Army a
preliminary daytime survey of the who lay the wire and un-lay ttj warns, but it may give the
when the day ’* operations are done. | fe-v extra man-hour* of fighting!
«rget area.
>ne operators and when they are moat needed. Ex -I
Actual taking of the test* by the There are telephoi
the trucks, the j périment« show that a single done;
the
men
who
run
r railblazer field-gun crews and
the wire-layers.• should not exceed five
big
prime
movers,
Digram.«
luxiliary unit* involved weeks of
> and other*.
I Co r-l.eve mental weariness, or ten
preliminary hard work on the sage- : the medic.«' vehicle
vvered rolling hill* of the Yakima ■ They were all n on the tests fur pfaysu-al fatigue, the general
discleae*.
■ alley.
Ii and ail contributed to them.
For Your ‘.Convenience...
You can now have your glasses
repaired on t|ie Post.
OPTICAL SHOP
rost Exchange No. 1—1600 to 2100