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Friday, April 28, 1944,
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Camp Adair Sentry
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY
It's  Great Lile .... By 1-5 Lynch
j
Notés From a Soldier's Sketch Book
Here it Is time again for the
Religious Message of the week and
not a thing to write about. I have
been wondering when I reach ths
Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head
quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.”
Pearly Gate, will old Saint Pvtrr
shout: “Okay, you guys, stsa
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Another thing we’re »oader-
ing. every new aud that —¡a
The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp
Newspaper Service.
where dqes Mahatma Gaadhi
keep his fountain pen?
C*pt. J. D. McKay.....
Director of Training Branch
14. AVilliam H. Roas.
...... Post Exchange Officer
One of the civilian gals and a
sgt. were talking. She said, “Da
Tec3 Bob Ruskauff...................................................
Managing Editor
you love me alone?” “Yes dear."
Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin .......... Staff Reporters
“Will you always be true to me?"
Tecu Don Lynch
........................
Staff Artist
“Yes dear.” “Then let’s elope to
night!” "I cau*t, dear; I’ve p>t a
date.”
While on the subject of marriage
—a wedding ring isn’t much dif
ferent from a tourniquet. They
The weather may not show it, but Camp Adair does —
both stop your circulation.
The boys are talking about a
Spring is arriving. The bobolink hasn’t quite started to sit
certain chaplain, who was shocked
in his door in the sun yet, and apparently the Oregon mists
at the language used by two GIs
haven’t ceased to fall, but throughout this cantonment there
repairing telephone lines on the
are signs that ¡Spring is upon uh .
'
post. The chaplain reported the
The beautification program of Camp Adair, begun more
boys to the executive officer and
the exec, ordered the men to make
tliHii u year ago, has so far progressed that one member of
a report. Here's what the lead
the original Fort Dix “cadre of 400,” which arrived at Adair
man said: “Me and Spike were on
“Nothing can stop the Army Air ( orps.
two years ago in June, was heard to remark:
the job and I was up the pole and
"When you get right down to it, it looks like a miracle
accidentally let some hot lead fall
on Spike. It went down his neek.
has happened. I remember when we arrived, we marched by
Spike looked up at me and said
what is now Post Hqs. over a field of stubble, and we reached
“Really, Harry, you must be mare’
our area in what used to be known as Tent City, and imme-
careful.”
diately started a three-months’ bivouac before we had even I Q. If. I was on KF and inadver-i
I w'as returning from the hospital
I tenlly broke a few dishes, would
learned what a bivouac was.”
I with a story, when I noticed some
This EM is today one of the few members of that so- I I be required to sign a statement | Nothing irks the Postal Officer fellows carefully carrying out a
charges for them and pay for |
<'alle<l cadre remaining on this Post. Time has moved onward. j I of
more than to see the delivery of wooden box. They loaded it into
them out of my Army pay?
mail
delayed because some GIs are a hearse. One of the ward boys
The changes have been many.
A. A tough question, hut accord unfamiliar with a few simple but spoke up and said “Poor Bennie.”
For the few old hands about the place, however,
ing to AR 35-f’>(540. a statement of important postal regulations gov “Poor-Bennie, nuts!” said one of
there are constant reminders—in the complete landscap charges is issued only if the party erning the use of air mail stamps the MDs, “I’m still convinced that
ing of the area in the heart of the Post, in the blossom charged with losing, breaking or and envelopes. Don't be like the guy is goldbrieking!”
ing of trees, in the improved roads and walks and bar otherwise impairing government photographer s daughter who sat A civilian was talking with one
property is .guilty of carelessness in the dark room to await develop of his fellow workers. He said,
rack areas—that this has become comparatively and in
or willful neglect. So, unless you ments. Get wise.
“And to think that I mortgaged
actuality a beautiful Army Dost.
broke those dishes on purpose or I
the home in order to send my boy
Air mail stamps and air mail
One of the liest ways to realize this, of course, is to go “through carelessness or"neglect," envelopes
to college. All he does is go out
can be used for air mail
you probably won’t have to pay
with girls, drink, and smoke."
somewhere else.
purposes only.
for them.
I
"Do you regret it?” The
One could quote lil>erally from no less than a dozen let
Air mail envelopes cannot be Friend:
“Yes, I do. I should have
I
father:
ters received from (Jis over the world throughout the past Q. Where does the Air Medal used und< r the free mailing privil gone myself.”
two weeks. We won’t. We don’t want to make anyone un rank in the order of precedence of ege.
maii stamps cannot be used
happy.- For the GI. however, who is prone to gripe at his awards made by the Mar Depart in Air
CAMP ADAIR
place of other stamps on parcel
ment?
"miserable condition of life.” we can only say "be content'
the great Willamette Valley,
post unless intended for air mail.
In
A. Ninth. The Air Medal has
with what you’ve got”—while you’ve got it.
. I been
Time flies, let’s not waste it. at a certain
____ spot thereof.
placed above the Purple Heart
Lies Camp Adair with all its
' by a change in Army Regulations. Remember the above and spare
yourself unnecessary delay.
hills and blue skies high above.
I It is preceded by the Medal of Hon
Continued
So. as the Campus Queen said
The hills are rich with trees «e
or,
the
Distinguished
Service
Cross,
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I---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I the Distinguished Service Medal, to the Camp Adair GI who told her green, of verdant fir and pine.
“Gosh, you have such a lovely fig
Where sparkling streams wind
th«- government of Britain banned travel to oversea,* destination* in the Legion of Merit, the Silver ure,” let’s not go over all that down their slopes which look like
definitely, following the recent suapenaion of travel to Eire ami the Star, the Distinguished Flying again.— The Chief Locater. Camp
silver twine.
Cross, the Soldier's Medal and the
s -I miii ) ilown on the movement.« of diplomats.
Dublin advtoes sa.v the
Adair Post Office.
The Camp look» very peaceftd
Bronze Star Medal and is followed
British have refused to issue permits to Erie vessels bound for Liabon
as it lies all hid from view,
by the Purple Heart and the Good
in one more move to prevent any leakage of information of the coming Conduct Medal.
In the midst of all this beauty;
LEAP YEAR BLUES
push ....
All soldiers at the Field House such spots as these are few—
MIGHTY PROCESSIONS OF ALLIED BOMBERS roared over
From the ridge of cascade moun
Q. Men who have been promoted
dance
the continent as the pre-invasion aerial offensive rolled on. Thousands to staff sergeant since Nov. 1, 1913.
tains that are whitely capped with
With each other vie to corral
of American bombers struck at factories in Friedrichshafen ami air have been (old they have no choice
The lovely junior hostesses
snow,
drome around Munich, Brussels and Mannheim in western Germany between an allotment and separate
And sparkle in bright splendor
Who dish »at the Gl morale.
as well as at Bucharest and Floesti in Romania, and the Yugoslav cap quarters, bat must keep the allot-
from the sunbeams’ brilliant glow.
ital oi Belgrade. Others struck at Brunswick, Osnabrück and railway meat. In this ruling right, or should
As the golden sun is sinking and
But me. I'm just a wall-flower.
yards at Mannheim aud I andau. R.A.F. bqsnbera pound««I the enemy men promoted to staff sergeant be
the
rays so brightly fall,
Too timid to ask for a dance:
rail centera of Karbruha. .Munich and Dusseldorf in Germany . . . . given a choKe of quarters or allot
Camp Adair just seems to float
Why.
oh
why
do
they
pass
me
by?
RED ARMIES ARE REGROUPING on several sectors of the vast ment ?
They look but don't LEAP at and pays no heed at all.
easi in front where it ia Iwdiaved the Russians will strike on the Polish
Old Glory has been taken down
A. No. th«' men you mention are
the chance.
and Rumanian faoMta Russian siege armies and assault planes are given no choice They must accept
and
safely stored away. ,
—
<
pl.
Dan
Kaplan.
dousing Sevastopol with siiells ami bombs in preparation for a show the allotment.
Awaiting to unfurl again and
Camp Post Office.
down l*attle Meanwhile, th«* Rods have captured a summit overlooking
(Ed. note: Maybe the gals know start another day.
th«* I« sieged city Though there were no essential changes on th«* land
Soon the dark gray shadows fall
You may wear Class B or A uni
frvnt. Soviet plane, -truck oil installations in Estonia ami Narva ami form. Field House dance. 2000 to it's Leap Year, too, Cpl.. and don’t
want to jump at conclusions too on this day that’s done.
cun< entI allons of military trains at thé railway junction of Lwow in night.
While the stars come out from
soon.)
old Pi.liuid ....
hiding and sparkle one by one.
THE ALLIES H WE CHALKED I’P new gains on two war fronts 1
Throughout the night of peace
against the .lapam-u- American invasion farces landed on I hitch New '
and rest the Camp does proudly
Guinea, meeting slight opposition as they were closing on the three
stand,
airfields at Holland:» The oporation was the first recovery of Dutch I
And we all think that Camp
territory of the war. Allied planes were reporte«! to Jiave iaided Tara-I
Adaig is best throughout the land.
I D-Day ha« been art.
I casualties. Brigadier General Omar
kow off the coast of Dutch Borne«», the first blow on this Dutch East
—Cpl. Pau) E. Van I.ieraa.
The tuneuUv for the Allied • N.
I ndie target. In India. Japanese troops driving toward Imphal cap- I western
?*. Bradl
□radiey. commanding Ar ncan
iauaaion has been worked 1 jtrour
Co. “L", 27«h Infantry.
ill
tun
id farces in the United King
M«-irwng, 90 miles
south of the Manipur state capital- The Brtt-
oax
to
the
smallest
detail.
dom.
told
officer*
that
ish
qitured Mapao. north of the Imphal plain, taking i«r<v quail*
"this stuff
about tremendous loss«- is tommy- ACHTING!“
t it v of Jap equipment. Meanwhile, the AUied troops have 1 uvketi I ( The date is known, howevei
only a *ew biffh-uankintf offw
1 London (CNS> -I
the s'tqpr around Imphal . , . .
*
and onl fe"' inwe will knoi
IN” fTALY. Amenean troops in the center of the Am it'
is known in Germa»,'
Dt'rtti i i
bcl»rt*haiiU. However, in talk
Acbtung Force, aceo
rveantUniE three positions while the Bntisn Mb pats*-i-
•d the . otTicm
(
s mi men. top-flight <
' Port that ha« res
Savgro river in one sector. Artillery continued at Cass» IV. M« fed iter- 11 manders 1
have been frank to
Every time RAF pl
ranvan based British bombers attacked the ltai.au per » of ( v’t»;«. rvtefit
<
of telling the troops
the
Reich, erres of “
Livorno nod Barms and hammered enemy poaMiona and
M lie- job lined ip far them.
neard over the rad
hind the Italian fighting fronts.
Scoffing at forecasts of hea
means “Attdnt’
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.
Weather to the Contrary, Proof
Abounds That Spring's at Adair
ANSWER BOX
Dos & Don'ts for
Air Mail Stamps
Revealed by PO
[ The World. This Week
'Success of the Whole War Depends
On D-Day/ Says General Bradley