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Jamp Adair Sem Friday. April 7, 1944. Page Two I I Camp Adair Sentry ta a Great Life ! . . . . By T-5 Lynch Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon BUBU0HED EVHHT FRIDAY yCHANGE ■**€ERPTS A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military TYuinn.g Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. The other morning on sick ca I overheard the doctor say to soldier: Addre«s communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon." “The trouble with you is thi something is the matter with yot heart.” The SCU Commando sai “With my heart?” “Yes,” said tl doc. “To give it a name, it’s an| ina pectorise.” The Commando sai “You’ll have to guess again. Si that isn’t her tame at all.” All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless gpecifieally credited to the War Department. News material furnished by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. SI — Year $1.50. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Capt. J. D. McKoy Lt. William H. Ross .Director of Training Branch ............ Post Exchange Officer Tec” Bob Ruskuuff. .............. Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowltz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin Tec-5 Deu Lynch ............................. In the next room of the hospiti was an officer who always loot down in the mouth—but he iui sad; he’s just a dentist. Managing Editor Staff Reporters Staff Artist On the way back from the ho pita) one of the GIs from the 70i Division backed his jeep into buzzsaw. Now his outfit has tw niotorcyeles. ARMY DAY — DAY OF WORK DAY OF BATTLE, THIS TIME Before returning to the office stopped at the barracks for a fe moments, just as the CO was mal ing inspection, and, boy, was I giving one of the men the devil I heard him say. “What’s comtt off here? I found a pint of gi and a bottle of gingerale in yw locker. What am I to make i this?” The Pvt. replied. “Why, .»mess a couple of highballs wou be in order, sir.” There is an old saying in sailing circles that when a ship is making it heavy in a breeze of wind she’s “in overalls with sleeves rolled up.” ¡¡F* ’ ’.<♦ That’s the way that the Army yesterday commemorated Army Day. The Army itself said do it that way. No-bunting- No fanfare. No‘ceremony. A tremendous job is still at a cru cial point and this is a helluva poor time to give a parade. It was on April 6, 1917, that the United States declared war against Germany. We were in that war 19 months and then at the height of a tremendous battle, it was suddenly over. (Germany quit. After leaving my overcoat started for the office and as walked up the company street ARMY CHAIR CORPS SONG noticed the plumbers walking oi This time, although apparently a lot of people on the Here we go, into the file case ANSWER BOX of the bunks on the comer wit home front and too many in the Armed Forces don’t realize yonder. a long fixture from the latrine, it, there is a different war, and it is not over. Writing in the Diving deep, into the drawer— said to one of the men, "What I have been sending my up?” He replied “The WAC current issue of the Elks’ Magazine a veteran of two wars, Here it is, buried away down under. I mother a family allowance of $37 moving in next week.” Fred Barton, brings out the signal truth's which make it so That damned stuff we’ve been searching for. l a month, as a partial dependent. As I entered the office the fi in an article entitled "Move Over, Pop.” The writer explains Recently my sister, who used to lows were on the subject of « Off we go, into the CO ’ s office, some essential differences, saying: help support my mother, was mar men. One said, “What is the m< Where we get one helluva roar; “It is a different war from the one you and your buddies We live in miles of paper files, ried and can no longer send my beautiful thing in the world?" J i pipes up and says. “A beautii fought back in 1918. pop, and you may as wdl admit it. Dif But nothing can stop the Army | mother any money. Is it possibje | girt.” "You're all wrong," si Chair Corps. . for me to get an additional allow | Paul. “Sleep is the most beau ferent because bigger. Different l*cau»e lonelier. Different ance fur my mother’s support? ■ fnl thing in the world.” “You 1 .Here's a toast to the host of those because worse.” both right,” said Smith. “Next who slave A. Yes. If your mother now de- ' a beautiful girl, sleep is the m< As he says, it is “a war that has brought the armored With feet on desk so high; pends upon you for her chief sup- , lank to its zenith, and perhaps its decline ... a war of new . To a friend we send a message of port, she is entitled to receive an beautiful thing in the world.” The trials of the swivel chair guj*. The sarge was sitting listeai weapons . . . and new defenses ... a war where millions of allowance of $50 a month. to us fellows, with a look of d officers and enlisted men alike regard themselves as expend We type, ami Sile, and though we gust he said: have no prop. able . . . you train for months and years but shoot your guns “I'm through with womei We're either in a spin or else we Q. I'm trying to find the where They cheat and they lie. The dry’ in an orgasm of fire that lasts a few seconds.” blow our top, abouts of my brother who has been prey on we males A toast to the host of the men Till the day we die. They teas : «ent overseas. Where can I ac The new thing which has been added. Barton says, who boast us, torment us. And drhe us t quire his APO? is "a corrosive, hitter hate." Although in the last war. The Army Chair Corps. I sin. soldiers hated the Prussian high command, they felt Here we go into the file ease A. You can get this informa Say! Who was that blond th» friendliness toward the men in the ranks. In trenches tion from the Adjutant General’s just walked in?” yonder. office. War Department. Washing Keep your margins level and opposite the same German forces for weeks, they even By the way, gang, before lea If you’d live to be a grey-haired ton. However, the number of ing you this week I would like got to know some of them by name. “We tossed them daily inquiries pertaining to the wonder smokes and they tossed us sausage. In this war we hate give you a tip on women. There a whereabouts of individual soldiers Keep your nose out of the glue. two kinds of them: Those wl them all. from general down to private.” has become so great that in the .Office men. guarding the Army’s . future specific replies to these in keep their love-letters and tho whose love letters keep them. red tape. quiries will be sent only to mem It has been apparent that, as stories come home from Here’s hoping to see you ag» We’ll be there, followed by more. bers of Congress. parents and close men who have fought in all theaters of this war. there is a With dictionary we’re stationary. relatives of soldiers and certain next week, but you know the Arm different tenor of feeling. Those who have fought the Japs 'Nothing can move,the Army Chair | public authorities. Yours truly. Scoop................ at Attn or in the Southwest Pacific realize that it is a war of Corps. decimation on both skies. —Camp Beale Bealiner. In "fortress Europe,” as Quentin Reynolds points out this -week in Colliers magazine, the invasion of Europe, if it is done through France, will be “murderously tough." Whether invasion will be made through France or elsewhere, we have no wav of knowing. Apparently few who are in the actual theater of operations ami in a position to observe what goes on. are at ail sure. It is obvious, though, that from the top most general to the least private under, his command, soldiers of the forces have unlimited and unquestioning as surance in General “Ike" Eisenhower. Although the entire article, "Invasion." points out how the going can ami will be tough. Reynolds ends it thus: "I have the complete, bliral faith in Ge|urai Eisenhower that is shared by all war correspondent* I know. If he says we can do it—we can do it. Ami Then there is the comforting thought that, on »hat first roll—sometimes the dice come seven.” Whatever, the point is that yesterday—Army Bay—was another work day and battle day. lor Albas throughout the world.—B. R. Address Overseas Letters Correctly Continued From Page 1 i in Bukovina and Bessarabia prov- I the Philippines on the invas» Inces. Rumanian towns and vil- ¡route to China coast. War depai Importance of correctly address laves fell in the on-sweep along ament announced that 100.000 J ing mail to servicemen and women i0-mi)e front. soldiers were trapped or doom overseas was stressed again this Rumania was reported ready to in the southwest Pacific and t week by the War Department in ask the Allies for an armistice. Marshal) islands. Most of the e an attempt to correct the growing | Stalingrad veteran« captured Alex- emy are cut off in New Guim problem of misdirected mail which androvka, east of the great port of ; New Britain, New Ireland * faces the Army Postal Service as Odessa and were engaged in en- , Bougainville and the remainder more ami more American troop.« circling 200.000 Germans in that the Marshalls and the Bismark M pour overseas. area. In old Poland, other Russian Ü. S. forces now occupy H ato Fifteen percent of the more than soldiers were adtancmg toward the, in the central Pacific Marshall . 25 million pieces of weekly over- old Soviet-German boundary line ¡lands with four others under uai seas mail is incorrectly addresses!, and seized several centers—includ- bombardment by army, navy investigation.« have shown. This is •mg the capture of the greater pert marine planes. usually because the sender does not p>f Ternopol, guarding the ap ♦ On the front in In a - rvalue the importance of includ proaches to I.wow. ing the entire address or because ♦ Tempo of Allied air «sault u. state. Jap jungle troops have the highway linking Imphal he relies on memory. the Japanese shrinking island em Th,- address required includes the pire was indicated in two more Kohima. The enemy. withm .«»Mier’s rank, full name with mid raids on Truk—a full-scale offen miles of the capital, impbai. dle initial. ASN. servic- organ.la- sive to neutralize the island and ffurled back into the nearby lion and unit. APO number and • Aher Jap bases along a IMO-mile by British artillery and Postaiaaler at the Port of Em front. A powerful American naval attack and buffered .wmc barkation through which the mail ta«k force pounded Jap bases in I casualties _________ since the »tart of IS routed Palau—an island group guarding fensive three week« age
