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Page Two Friday, June 16. 194-1- Camp Adair Sentry Ex-Third Lt., Now in 70th, Writes Pledge to His Native Philippines Camp Adair WCHAI6E A cerpts Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY f,D. NOTE: Recently Sentry printed a story on Cpl. J Ramon Fajardo, 570th Signal Addre-s communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head Co., 70th Division, who held the quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” unique rank of 3rd Lieutenant . to ., :n,!.nrti‘Ie’i«7?refM!,Lt P"’"1"«1 opinions and are not official unless in the Philippine Army, and b^tte P,u I10 th/w?ar News materia] furnished o i • . Relation» Office is ¡ variable for general release. who enlisted in the U. S. Army Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. fl — Year $1.50. after Pearl Harbor caught him The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp in Hawaii. Cpl. Fajardo is a Newspaper Service. newspaperman by profession. .n Capt. -I? D~ShKay3 Director of Training Branch Lt. William H. Ross ...................Post Exchange Officer the following poem, addressed a to his native Philippine Islands, Tec3 Bob Ruskauff.. Managing Editor he voices their feeling against Pvt. Paul Rosenberg Staff Reporter Tec$ Don Lynch — .............................. Staff Artist the -Jap invader: Basically, men are all gentle men—off base. ! — A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel ol Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. To the Infantry The bartender was mopping u] the dew on th" mahogany when a officer lushed in and demand* something to cure hiccup,. Th bartender promptly slapped him ii the face with a wet towel. I “What’s the big idea?” scream« the officer. | “Well,” said the bartender trium phantl.v, “You haven’t any hiccup now, do you?” “No, and I didn’t have any be fore. It’s my wife, outside In-th< ‘ car.” i I THE RETURN OF A PRODIGAL SON . . I am one of your prodigal sons Success story : A soldier complet . ing more than 30 years in the army retired with the tidy -nm of $51.- 000. He amassed this eomfartahle fortune through careful investment of his savings and the death of an uncle «ho left s50.995.~Th», ! Outpost. The Infantry is nobody’s Sunday School picnic, as a hell Once lost and stranded in this planet. of a lot of ex-ASTP boys, Air Force lads and members of the Through the indifferent circumstances of Time. Out of the appeasements for Peace miscellaneous will tell you. The routine is even towgher than War came thundering over all Continents. is seemed from the outside. Thus, I found my lost-self again The Infantry is the least glamorizedof the services. Com Resurrected among the living! pared to the Paratroopers, Marines and Airmen it’s a drab So here I stand shoulder to shoulder I Castle in Corvallis wallflower in a Rarden of flaming roses. But— ' Landlady: “How do you like your With ihillions of my own transplanted 1 room, as a whole?” I think the important thing! for us to remember Prodigal tittle brave brothers. GI: “As a hole it’s fine. As a Soon, we shall cotne crawling is that this war has to be won. it is going to he won. and room not so good.” Like animated shadows before the break of da«n, the Infantry is going to have a big part in the-winning To deliver you from the Mood) hands of it! First Sergeant: “Good Lord, air, Of the treacherous barbarians . . . In this war the Infantry of the United Nations has been why don't you peel that banana BE BRAVE and keep your eternal faith strictly on the hall. The gaunt, malaria-stricken farmhands • before you eat it?” Burning in your uncorruptible breasts; i Second Lieutenant: "What for? that held Bataan were mostly of the Infantry. It was the Hold your spirit high and proclaim I know what's inside.” Victory which shall soon shine like the sun doughboys that halted the Jap drive on Port Moresby, pushed To add more glory to the Fall of Bataan. on through the jungle-spewed swamps, and smashed Buna. Mr. Suburb kissed his wife » For Democracy in its decision to fight Attu was hit by the Infantry <yf the 7th. fond farewell as he was about to This war against the Naris to the death, (’lark’s Sth Army Infaritry forced and extended the catch the morning bus. But, for Promises as its ultimate demand Salerno and Anzio beachheads and drew the heaviest measure the first time in five years, he A “total surrender and unconditional peace!” mi’sed it. Thinking to surprise of Nazi retaliation. Let that be a memorandum for the Nipponese! his spouse he implanted a tender PILIPINAS, war widowed mother of our hearts. Guadalcanal, the Marshalls, Hollandia, 'Mtinda. Makin, kiss on the back of her neck as Watch the sky for the signal shot Bougainville and bloody etes. have felt the hard, successful she was washing dishes. When General MacArthur returns with ptanes. drive of the Yankee doughboys. I “Good morning,” she said, ‘I'll Guns, tanks and ships loaded to the deck have two quarts of milk and a pint What of Montgomery’s Eighth Army’s North African With your once prodigal son i of cream.” campaign had the Palestinian rifleman not returned Rom-; That will drive the Japs once And forever from our Native Land. mel’s flank at Mareth? "Etchings are fetching but liquor Cpl. RAMON FERNANDEZ FAJARDO The First German Parachute Division at Cassino was is quicker.” 570th Signal Co.. Camp Adair cut to pieces by the French Colonials, the Polish Battalions. The greatest army in Asia, the Chinese Eighth Route “Do you think I will ever have full use of mvWiands again, Doc!" Army, is mostly a group of swift, mobile, superbly disciplined Continued "Certainly.” light weapons detachments. From Page 1 The most amazing hunk of soldiery on the European con I---------------------------------------------------------- >i “Do you think I will be able to play the piano?” tinent. Marshal Tito's National Army of Liberation, is mostly co,■'tai stronghold of Isigny and Catentan, Nazi pivot at the base of "No question about it.” the peninsula, drove within 17 miles of the French port of Cherbourg, Infantry. "Thanks, Doc. I never could be and plunged to the outskirts of Montebourg, which late reports state No one can deny the mastery of Soviet Artillery, but fore.” has been taken British and Canadian troops captured the town of Ste. at Stalingrad, the turning point of the war. It was Rodim- Croix, seven miles from Bayeux . . . Mac: “Why are you taking al sftv’s Guardsman. Infanlry to the core, that held the CHURCHILL SET FOOT ON FRENCH SOIL for the first time flashlight along? I don't take one sacred ground of freedom and started the great Red of since his appeal to a collapsing France in 1940. General Eisenhower when I go to see my girl.” led a party of top-ranking military and naval leaders on a tour of the fensive. Jim: “I'm not taking any chance« Yep. buddy, you hike and hike and hike in the Infantry; Normandy battlefront. In London. King George chatted along with on getting one like yours." you sweat and plot and stagger along; you run, you drop, you General Marshall and General Arnold . . . Mazier ”1 wa, getting fend oi CLEARING WEATHER GAX E PROMISE to the heaviest air ac crawl, you dig: you miss meals and you sleep in the rain—and tivity over the beachhead since D-Day. One thousand American heavy bombers hit at target.« in Frame and Nar> f.,r, j -V.------' ! Ed~un,il he r"t frc,h ,ni only those who are doing the catching can really say how it is. British bomber, blasted field, throuX.o J 1forwi'rd «.rfieM, while' it.” You’re in the Infantry, and you’ll be a damned good in German oil center of Gelsenkirchen an B ■ M'lm' W'1!and- France. | Baue: "Isn't it terrible haw fast enk.rchen-.nd Berlin for the third night in', man can undo ever»thing?" fantry! You’ll be in there pitching, and when your D Day a row . . . HOTLY PURSUING THE BATTERED GERMAN 14th ARMY.' VmOr‘‘,der comes, you’ll be prepared. And us guys who see you day in and day out and know Line Sergeant: “The nun »ks Allied armies »urged up the west coast of Italy north of Rome. Tar- what you’re up against think you’re .swell people—we’ll break quina. Civita Castallano. Tuscania, Viterbo, and Valentano fell in the sneaked out of the barracks last our hearts ami bodies giving you all the support we can. lightning drives which put the Allied troops more than 50 mile, above night and met a girl in the weeds Carry on, Joe—Pvt. R. Friedman, Cannon Co., 275th Inf. the eternal city. Fresh divisions from the north with scattered remnants "ill step forward . . . COMPANY I The World This Week D Day Stands for Dad's Day, June 18 ji of the German 14th took positions in the hills bordering the Etruscan HALT!” plains and gave the Allies the toughest resistance since the fall of the capital. In eastern Italy, the British 8th drove the battered 10th army in headlong retreat on a front extending from the east bank of the' Tiber river to north of the Pescara river on the Adriatic coast. Pes cara. Avezxano and Orsogna were left in the wake of the Nazi army fleeing northward . . . RUSSIA'S WHOLE NORTHERN FRONT from the Arctic to the White sea and the Gulf of Finland was blazing with action as the Soviets opened their .summer offensive in Finland’s Karelian isthmus. More than 80 towns and village, fell in the Red army's hand, as they drove hard on the important port of Vtipuri. Finnish troop, were flee-' SATURDAY high' «> ' ,he of the Bath ’ When m <>uie'area ing and town, were abandoned before the onrushing Soviet armies.! advantage of all opportun •** and prediction, were made that Finland would «oon be knocked out of met your health by frvq’^hatnam^ the war . . . IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. V. 3. carrier task force, cen tered around the Marianas, operating for three day, within 1500 miles of Tokyo, sunk 13 ships, damaged IS others and destroyed 141 plane, . . . IN EAST INDIA, the Jap, continued to retreat before the Briti,h force, below Kohima In Burma. General StihnreiF, Chinese American force, captured one of Myitkyma's airfields. Fall — of Mr.nr.ni. Changsha. main Father’s Day was first espoused in 1910, but it was 14 rears Iteforv the movement, launched by Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane. Wash., was accepted and Father’s Day became a national holiday. And even then, its acceptance was facilitated chiefly because of the existing popularity of Mothers’ Day. Fathers have always been in pretty much of a heckled spot. They proverbially receive presents from the fatnily on Fathers’ Day and get the bill for them a month later. Rut that is part of the way of things, and history has never recorded that Dad minded very much. Fathers’ Day is Sunday, and this time of greater signi ficance than ever. Dad and son are separated. Today Dads, many of them who served in World War I, are holding down jobs in shipyards, munition* factories, running key business es. — or — are - — again in ----------------------- the Armed ------------------------ Forces along -------- — - with ..... their -------- sons. Many of them will have to receixe their messages in the , “** ,n Hw«**. **emed mmment a, th».a,and, of Jap troops attacked the Ia,t Chinese defenses. On the Salween river spirit. But it will be a lot to know that the kki is thinking of front in »outhwe»t China. Chinese troop, advanced on Tergchang. l*’t the oM man. enemy stronghold on the old Burma rvad.