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QRf’C'"’ '“ t *TE L’C^A.lY TOOTHY TALE line clinic at Camp Adair which you are as certain to hit as that you'll visit your barber (or else!) and which tils still don't know too much about, is the dental clinic. There arc three in fact on this Post and next week. Vllah willing, the Sentry will devote a page to telling you about them. Painlessly. « Vol. 2. No. 51. Camp Adair. Oregon, Friday, April 7, 1944 I Easter Morn Services Held at Field House More Than 70 Commemorative Events Slated at Camp Adair _»______ Easter, the day of the Resurrection, will be commem- fl'ated with mow than 70 observances at Post Chapels and those of the 70th Divisionfcnd will be featured with an Easter ?1.50 a Year by Mail t NO DANCE TONIGHT AT FIELD HOUSE! Owing to last night's big dance, to music of the 38-piece WAC “Four Freedoms” Band from Fort Des Moines, there will be no regular Friday night dance tonight at the Field House. By way of compensa tion, each of the Post Service Clubs will hold a dance tomor row night. Wac Band Takes Taps for Club 2 Adair by Storm Sunday Evening 70th Lt. Col. Returns, Tells Story of Cassino Col. Townsend Wins Silver Leaf During Three Months Overseas “Tell the boys in your division that they are getting the finest combat training possible. “Tell mem to master everything they are taught. Sunrise Service to be held at' the* ♦ “Tell them they will find use Field House, it was revealed from ' for all the things they are taught.” From Cassino office of the Post Chaplain. This is the message brought The Field House Sunrise ob back from infantrymen in front servance w ill take place at 0700. line fox holes in Italy to men of The Service will be conducted by the 70th Division by Lt. Col. E. C. Chaplain James P. McGugin and Townsend. AC of S, G-2, who has the sermon will be delivered by A Sfi-piece WAC band from Fort ju«t completed three months of Division Chaplain Loren P. Des Mcines, Iowa, which “trucked duty on the Italian front in the Jenks of the 70th Inf. Division. Club 1 Will Open With in” (well, make it by Camp Adair now-famous Cassino region. There Arrangements have also been ' he served with General Mark Key Personnel Doing bus) from Portland late yesterday made by the office of the Post afternoon, last night made some Clark's famous Fifth Army. Chaplain for the proper observance Special Service Duties more musical and dance history at Col. Townsend was detailed to of Holy Week, as follows: Field House. the front as part of the Army Protestant Communion services Effective midnight, Sunday/ Before a big crowd of enthusiastic policy of offering actual combat were held last night at Station Hos- ' 'Camp Adair will close the doors of GIs (many of whom had scarcely Experience to officers of divisions pital, by Chaplain William D. even seen a WAC before at Adair,) Service Club 2. in training. His observation of tac Hurst and at Post Chapel 1, by In addition to the club th«- cafe the splendidly organized musical tics and staff functions will be Chaplain McGugin. teria and Guest House 2 is also aggregation played a versatile i given in confidential reports to the There will be a Stations of the group of selucUuM, langpig .Xjpm i ¿•losing. war department and staff officers. Cross service for Catholics at stirring marches to jive dance mu- ’ To many Adairmen, the termin Chapel 1 this afternoon at 1300 and, But he took particular pains to sic. i at 1400, Protestant Good Friday ating of the activities of the club I Following this, there wax a well | find out what the men themselves Service. At Station Hospital the 'brings back many fond memories presented style show conducted by | | thought of their training, Trailb)»rvr Good Friday Meditation for Pro of good times . . . dances, enter- Portland beauties under the direc HE TOOK LEAVE of Adair j "Training Covers Everything' —>♦. meetings with friends testants will take place at 1300. with i «•••'"> tainnient. The enthusiasm of the men for tion of Helen Meier, formerly with three month.« ago a« a major, but returned Lt. Col. E. C. ¡the type of combat training re- a Stations of the Cross Service at'«n«i sweethearts, a moment of rc- I Flo Ziegfeld. Townsend with the «tirrlng story 1400 taxation . . . good food and good ' The WAC band Iceived in this country was shared made the Adair of the Sicily invasion. Complete Post Easter services are fellowship. by Col. Townsend after his observa 'topover a« part of the "Four contained on Page 11, together with i However, all activities of the Freedoms” 37.000 mile show tour, tions. “The training our men get a full story of the more than 50 club will be absorbed by Service heing sponsored by the United covers every conceivable situation. services planned at chapels of the Club 1 which is located at 1st St. States treasury department and the ■ It covers everything a soldier i North and Hostess Ave. Trailblazer Division. Saturday Evening Post. needs in combat. It is up to the ' Miss Ann Caddy will be club di- As an introduction to the eve soldier himself to make himself Huii Speecn Sunday Le«t you l ,rget while readmg ]f,0 nl effWent in thi„ tra|n. ’ rector and will be assisted by Miss ning. brief » ords of » elcome » ere , ,z , . . . . The state department announced , Dorothy Stevens, social and recrea- extended by Col. A. C. Morgan, about seven and a half million >o|- . diers at war. yesterday was Army »* »« today that Secretary Hull will make tjona| hostess Miss Helen Shu CO of the 276th Inf. regiment, for anything, Col. Townnend de- a 45-minute speech on foreign poli- ' maker will shift from Club 2 to «•ho holds the distinction of be Bv resolution of congress in the i* ’**1 *’*" cy Sunday. Club 1 and will continue in her ing former Assistant Command The speech will be broadcast over peaceful late '20'«. the anniver-ary | An infantryman throughout his the Columbia Broadcasting system regular duties as librarian. The ing officer at Ft. Des Moines, and of America's entry into World War 2_ntire <,rver the Army, Col. from 3:30 to 4:15 p. m. PWT, cafeteria will be in charge of Mixa by Lt. Laura McNair, assistant 1 was set aside as a day on which j Townsend is more than ever con (Continued on Page 9. Col." 2) Helen Barrett. April 9. ------------------------------------ ,----------- to remember th«- army. It was just < vince«! that the “doiighlmyx" are a little army then. the determining factor in combat. Yesterday the parades and the Hi« admiration for these fighting •rek of visiters to artny posts were men ia further heightened, he said, omitted. There i« neither time r.or by the pmazingly efficient way in necessity for the parades. The which officers, non-eommisaioned American public knows ata-ut the army. And so does the enemy—for officers and soldigra performed all today it is deployed around the phases of operations. ________________________ (Cdhtinued on Pag«- 9, Column .31 world. It Was Army Day; No Celebration Gen. Dahlquist Awarded Legion Of Merit for Service in Europe The Legion of Merit, one of the highest honors conferred i in the military service, has been awarded to Major General John E. Dahlquist, commanding general of the 70th Infantry Legion of Merit KI SS INVADE KI MANI I ALLIES BOMB BALKANS JAPS DOOMED IN PACIFIC Division, according to General Or *------------------------------------------------ ders issued by the War Depart and welfare »»terns for the la- ment received here Wednesday. ited States Army Force* ia the The award, made for "exception Kingdom and European theater ally meritorious conduct in the per n( operations." the citation formance of outstanding service” states. was for duties performed while While in Europe General Dahl General Dahlquist was in the Eu quist served under General Eisen ropean theater of operations from hower. On his return to this coun May. 1941. to July, 1942. While try, he served as assistant division London, and later was Assistant al commander of the 76th Division Chief of Staff for personnel of the from November, 1942. to March, S pecial Army Observers Group. 1943. at which time he was -«¡«-cted U-ndon. and later was Asaatant for commanding general of the Chief Staff, G-l of the European 70th Divjsxm. Theater of Operations Other foreign service performed W ords st ( itatesa by General Dahlqumt includes three "General n ah l qa ist displayed years with the 45th Infantry. PhiU high profoaoteaal shill, .ple a dU tppine Scouts, and with the army Monitored by Tec 4 John Stump ». ma de a majaa general July 5, 1943. and received his brigadier general (Cmrtinoad an Page 3 Column 1) o«>rd«*r. Ninety-oix ...ilisj bombers .went down in attack i Nureiu- i b«-rg and targ«t» in western Ger- .many wh«-n 2200 ton« 'if bomba wear dropped on the city's Indus trie-. U. S. bth air force resumed , its offensive after a three-day lull and attacked the Paa De Calais • trip of France and western Oer- . many. ♦ Though claiming no designs on Rumanian territory, Russia was making rood ber vows to pursue the enemy until his <apituJaUon. After storming Lemauli, Russian troops smashed srrnsa the Prut plane« flew over their country and river mto eastern Rumania and that bombs had fallen on the town < rMtwl the border at sever»! point • (Con’t on P. 2, Cola. 4 and ft) Schaffhasea near th« German • I ,r»t Kui-ian invas.on <»r Axi- territory, the increasing tempo of air assault» against Japan'» i»lan<1 empire, and hints of the move- of Axis «atetlitas toward the Allie« - marked the main event» in the world this week .... In support of the advancing Red army, Allied air forces launched a day and night offensive again.t the Balkan«. Hundred* of Italian- baaed bomber« Masted Bucharest, the Rumanian capital, in the wake of a second Allied air attack on the Hungarian capital of Budapest Theater
