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Camp Adair Senti
Friday, April 21, 1944.
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Camp Adair Sentry ; It's A Great Life
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
.... ByT-5Lynchî
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Notes From a Soldier's Sketch
A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel
of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military
Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange.
The other evening while attend
ing a show I overhead a soldier
whisper to his gal friend. “This
Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry. Pest Head
picture is making my flesh creep.”
quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.”
The girl snapped, “Okay, but why
All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless
does it always have to creep to
specifically credited to the War Department News material furnished
ward my knee?”
by the Public Relations Office is available for general release.
The show was over and everyone
Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. $1 — Year $1.50.
was leaving just as the fire truck
The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp
stopped in front of a flaming build
Newspaper Service.
ing across the street. The firemen
Capt. J. D. McKay
Director of Training Branch
were getting ready for some fancy
Lt. William H. Ross
...... Post Exchange Officer
squirting when two dogs jumped
off the hose wagon and started cir
Tech Bob Ruskauff
Managing Editor
culating among the crowd of on
Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Vim. Sandlin........... Staff Reporters
lookers. What-are .the dogs for, a
Tec5 Don Lynch
Staff Artist
fireman was ashed by a little boy.
“Why, them’s tq find the hydrant."
he answered;
While Strpiling the avenue and
doing a little wjndow shopping I
happened tq notice a sign in a dress
Recently u news dispatch stated that the Count Guard has come
shop that read, “Attention Ladies—
out with a super-duper sort of jeep which will eclipse in sturdiness,
Our first shipment of glass dresses
mountain goat and all-around general ability our own Army jeep.
just received, Come in and look
That is all very well and good. If so, one can only say that it must
them over. Glass fabric is the latest
be a vary remarkable ieep. Already, under the duress of war, the Army
thiug —
one of our glass
ham performed 5(1 separate military jobs.
! frocks. and be seen in the best of
The jeep has been outfitted with iron wheels and used to pull
; places.”
freight ears on an Australian dock. It has been operated as a (id-horse
• Juft-then a Private and a Major
power fire fighter engine in factory area» where the use of larger
i passed each other on the sidewalk,
equipment is net practical. It has la*i»i suggested as a mosqujtu control ,
the Major roared to the Private.
aid nt Guadalcanal, it bus been utilized to deliver mail on rough country
-—■ who had passed him without raising
roads.
his hand, “Don’t they teach you to
On farm» the jeep has been employed successfully. It has hauled
salute in your outfit?” “Yes, Sir,”
'6 disk drills (.'I horse) over a 20-acre field using a third the amount
replied the Pvt. “Then why didn’t
f gas required by a tractor. It pulls 1300 pounds without wheel '
you salute me?” “Well, Sir” was
-lippage.
the candid, reply, “I didn’t want to
It bus been indicated that after the war is over, jeeps will be for j
Although m> »ite recene-
attract more attention than I had
ule at a reasonable figure. If they can do all of the fore-mentioned an allotment from raj Army pay
to, cause I ain’t supposed to be
Kings, then there is no reason that every little child should not have each month she is not dependent
i • in > out here without a pass.”
■>n me. having other sources of in-1 I . ...
me for a toy.
read with interest the article
come. In the event of m> death last week's Sentry titled —“Gl' 1 started for the bus depot, by
»ill she be eligible for a »ido»« Wives Eligible for Maternity Cure" taking a short cut through an alley.
Continued
pension?
In regard to this article there may 1 canw‘ “P°n a P»rked ««>' with •
From Page I
>n >L A« I passed I heard
A. Yes, a widow does not have be or may not be something you
to prove need. Payments to them would know about—which is this,the gal say, “Pmdpn my slapping
tic actions designed to prevent any leakage through neutral Eire of are automatic by the Veteran»’
face. I thought - you were try-
the town of Albany, in the main. your
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Allied preparations ....
Administration and in ease of the does not or will not accept this1to "teal “F sorority pin.'
♦ In the speetuvular and devastating aerial offensive on western Eu death of their servicemen hus plan.
After finding out that a bus did
ropa, enemy firm were kept burning with new raids on Berlin, Cologne bands. they will receive widows’
My wife's doctor, who is Dr. not leave for camp for 30 minutes
and industrial targets in western Germany. Tiv»i thousand American pensions even though they may Bohl, does however, agree whole- j : I started into a cafe to grab a bite.
bombers lushed at central Germany, battering aircraft factories at Kas have other income.
heartedly, but evidently he stands As I entered a friend of mine was
el and airfields southeast of the city. Other formations raked the
pretty much alone. My repeated coining out and said, “That place
Q. My wife gave birth to a blue queries at the Albany Red Cross! is no good, in the first place they
French cimat and the continent. One thousand British planes blasted
eyed baby boy the 13th of last and the Camp Adair Red Cross al-(charge 10 cents for a cup of cof-
rail targets on the outskirts of Paris. Rouen and Tergnier ....
♦. Moscow guns lioomed again with the announcement that the Ger month. Am I entitled to receive ways bring the answer—that "Al- fee, and not only that I had a
man stronghold of Tamopol in Poland fell to the Russians after a 3K- S30 for the baby for the entire bany just won’t cooperate.”
mink coat stolen there last week.
lay battle. Five hundre»! miles southeast of the city, German and Ro- month or do I just get a part of
1 warn to know this—if the wives I really don’t mind the loss of the
oiauitMi troops are attempting to evacuate the Crimea by way of the the $30 in the form of an allot- of my fellow soldiers are receiving coat so much, but I wish they would
Black sea. but Russian bonds» hailing from land, sea and air are crippl- i menl?
care and cooperation (in other J return the blonde that was in it."
A. Your new •on will be happy townsi then why not I?
mg the mkeshift rescue fleet. As Axis troops were herded in the south
On tha bus I sat and watched the
corner of the huge peninsula, two Russian armies joined in a shrinking to know that he gets the full $30.
This general statement of ‘will
__ others get on and a boy
, with
-....... long
semi-circle to deliver the death blow to tottering Sevastopol. Stalin No matter what date in the month not cooperate —makes me sizzle. ' pants got on 'for ten cents, a lad
It is
¡o an evasive ______
.
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♦ nnouneed the capture of Feodosiya, the capital city of Simferopol. | a child is born on it gets the full It
answer * to some • . in short
pants got on for five cents,
Salta, and Balaklava while hua<Uevlr» of other Crimean villages fell. | payment for the entire month{ people's selfish, narrow-minded I and a pretty girl didn’t pay at all.
RAI WeHrngtuns from Italy bombed rail yards af%u<lape*t climaxing , All the purent* have to do is file ness. I ask no more than my equal She had a transfer.
Sincerely. Sgt. Norman
blows at tlie center of the Balkans in support of the Red Army .... Ia copy of the birth certificate with lights.
We had been riding along for
♦ Hitter skirmishing and artillery duels flared anew on both the the ODB to start the payments roll- Goll in
about 10 minutes, when someone
f»th army fronts and the British Sth army’s Adiiatic sector. Allied | ing in.
in the rear of the bus rang the bell
bombers struck again at Nazi rail lines and airfields alarvv Rome as
My mind and flood my heart with to stop. After the bus had come to
well a» »mashing at Livarno, Sau Stefano and Naples in a campaign
happiness.
FURLOUGH'S END—1941
a stop a soldier started for the door
I
to disrupt German effort« to move supplies io by sea .... In India,
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with a stagger, just as he passed
the Japanese were attacking Iniphai from three sides in a drive to To have you close beside me. though | So. when this hour is over, and I me he tripped and fell. I noticed
asleep.
isolate the British and Indian veterans trapped within the city. How
hear
i it was Cpl. Black. As I helped him
ever, Allies! infantry and tanks yr»- locked in heavy fighting against And only for these borrowed hours, The call that means farewell, even up and to the door he asked me if
to touch
the Japanese around the entire jungle perimeter of the rich Imphal
before
11 could help him get to the place
plain. The enemy was being stopped at every point of contact, ac Your ha ml. to watch the moment's ' You waken, in my heart there is where his wife was staying. I
gladness keep
cording to Admiral Mountbatten’s headquarters ....
no fear.
could see he was in no condition to
♦ American airmen have pounded Jap bases over a 4000-mile area of Playing around your lips; to know : 1 ask for nothing, now—no. nothing go by himself so I helped him home.
that such
i more
the Pacific—the aerial soigv extending from the Kurile Islands to New
As we entered his place his wife
Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Rabaul on New Britain, Kavieng on Deep uncertainty fills our life that j Than, that, while you still sleep. I met us at the door and with anger
you
Naw Iretpgd Were hit. Other American fliers attacked the Carolines,
yet know
she said.“What does the clock say ?
concentrating moat of the bombs on Jap-held Truk atoll. Australian Would not disdain my plea for ten But once, niy lips on yours before To which he replied. "The clock
derness:
troop« have struck near the Jap naval supply port of Madang by the
I m
shays tick-tock, doggies shay bow
capture of the protective base of Bogadjim. American bomber* from All these joys fill my thoughts to
—Tec 4 Robert S. Toreasiq.
wow. cows say meoow. meoow' Now
night. rush through
the Aleutians attacked the Jap-held Kuriles for five straight days.
Post Finance Office are ya shatishied, dear?"
Otityr fliers ranged over Truk, Ponaj»e and seven bases in the Carolines.
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The Jeep in Post-War Planning:
'Sturdy Little Devil' Versatile
ANSWER BOX
The World This Week
Many 'Firsts' to W AC
Fort Stevens. Dre
Youngest
enliatevi mfcnlwr of the Women's
Army Corps to serve overseas!
General Ike Eisenhower's private
t«4*phone operator!
First overseas WAC to return to
the United States on furlough!
Those are just a few of the dis-
tincttosur ehaNt.-l up by Pvt Mar
tone IMrwthy OHs of Day ton. Ohio,
now stationed at Fort Stevens, Ore
gon. as a Meph'O’.- operator in the
Harbor IWfense- <>f the Columbia
River, since her enlistment 19
months ago in Cincinnati. Ohio.
The 33-year-«ki woman served in
the Mediterranean Theater of Op
el ations for several months and
was a member of the initial WAC
company to serve outside of the
continental limits of the United
States.
rhe I’M Goat!
Fall City. Kans (CXJO
Ar-
raigiie»! on a charge of not paying
ttui fare. .Arthur FUe-m expíame»!
to the judge that he upmlentMinaliy
destroyed hi* ticket by ally ration
it while rwihrtr On the-truer • •
FURLOUGH: INSPIRES SONG PARODY
Dear Sgt.:
Furlough! What fond dreams
that magic word evokes! What
deep emotions well within our
hearts at the thought of the word!
It makes us think of home and of
our loves! ones waiting for our
train to arrive.
M hen I finally grasped the pa
pers in my hand, and I knew the
flirlough was a reality and not a
chimera seen, only to disappear—
the tune “Goin* Home" by Dvorak,
began to run through my mind. It
. persisted, nothing could erase it.
GtdW* home, rvh' home! Word* he-
tran to assign themselves to the
thrilling melody.
I've had two furloughs of seven
days each, and neither time could
I go as far as the East Coast. The
third, ah. travel time! We can KO
home! Alleluia!
Here are the words we will be
singing to the accompa nent of
the clickity-claek of the wheels on
the rail spanning the continent to
New York.
Goin' home, goin' home, we re a-
gain' home.
On the bus. on the train, »e're a-
toin' home.
if» not far. just a mite. jo»« »»•**•
the land.
Oregon. Iowa, Ohio. Maryland.
Mother's there, sister too. father's
meeting me.
Uta Of folks gathered there, maay
friends to soe.
GOIN' HOME
Still aeme friends to see
I T UTW * t rOffl Home, from New Home, home. we’re a-i
home.
'. Mm-lto«’*'
World Symphony. by Antoma
TeeS Robert
Pth h*
Dvorak •
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