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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.
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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