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Page Two amp Adair Sen! Friday, June 23, 1944. t • z Camp Adair "Sentry JifsAGieaf Life _____ M-5b>*|l Yæ LtRPTj Mounting Guard In and and Around A rnund ¡Camp X'a m n Adair, Adair Oregon nrotrnn Mounting Guard In PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY • - Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book ; | r “Iss potatoes..two kinds, rpalJ and iimmale ?” . “Of course not. Why?” "It’s very fonr.y -the Keptin told me I should pee! two sex ol potatoes.” 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. Published under permit of Army Service Forces, No. APN-9-25-M. Addre-s communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” All articles represent personal opinions and are not official utjless specifically credited to the War Dmartment. News material furnished by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. $1 — Year 11.50. Two young' dai.ies -were wajtch- ing a transport preparing to leave “Where they goin’T” "they’re goin’ to China.” “What they gurma do there?" "Listen, Millie, ain’t ycu evet been out with a GI?” The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Serviee. Capt. 3. D. McKay Lt. William H. Ross Tec.3 Bi)> Ruskauff . Pfe. ( lebrge Slmmqns Tec5 Pen Lynch ......Director of Training Branch ................. Post Exchange Officer •1 Managing Editor Reporter ................. Staff Artist • JV '-W hieii recd|ls;s4he secretary who went out tc practice-with the softball team after the boss told her he'd buy her a mink coat if she'd play ball with him. In African Hospital, GI Tells Wife at Adair to: Bless the Red Cross! A man was telling the ednoi (net of the Sentry) his uncle hw taken the paper for 55 years,- “Fine,” said the editor, "I hop< he continues to do so.” “Oh. yes, he will. He. has—al ways been a mqdel juf propriety Never touched liquor or tobatcc Never been mixed up with women Indulges in no vices, no excesses and tomorrow he will celebrate hi I 80th birthday.” “How?” asked the editor. • The following letter from Africa tells a dual story —and is an editorial which tells it stronger than any edi- toralizing we cottkl hope to do. it is (1) a powerful tri bute to the work of the Hed Cross, and (2) as the clos ing paragraph suggests, a cogent message to all hands to dip into the old inkwell and send those V-mail tetters overaoas. The letter was received by Lois Hnntoon. Sales Commissnry. and written by her husband, Pvt. Don K, Huntoon, who is hospitalized in Africa: „When the clergyman read th “When anyone tells you that the Red Cross is a punk , words “love, honor and obey,” ii I outfit, you just tel) them for me that they don’t know what Which Side of Foolish NO RETREAD JOB ■the ceremony, the colored groon Dixon, Calif. (CNS) — A local Woman Shows, Chief? they are talking about. The Red Cross-does everything pos I interrupted: sible to make it more pleasant or the Ijoys, and all of us Prairie, S. D. (CNS) — Chief newspaper ran this exciting ad: “Read that agin.-suh. Read it one, Leonard Foolish Woman, a lone- “Owner of a truck would like to over here think it is a very very fine organization. some Indian, wants his foolish wo correspond with a widow who owns mo’ go’s de lady kin ketch de ful “This afternoon they served us coffee and cookies and man hack. He claims his wife de two tires. Object: matrimony. P.S. solemnity ob de meanin’. I’se-beei married befoh.” ree cigarettes and candy. That is not done just once in a serted him for the glamour of the Send pietttre of tires.” while but several times a week. Before we left the States, | stage. She's now featured ip a A Maiden’s Prayer side show in Chicago, he says. Buy War Bonds. each soldier was'given (free) a pull-over sweater, wool cap |f Dear Lord, bring him back safe sound and single. * and face piece that is hand knitted, mittens and a bag with I Continued several necessary and also pleasing articles in it. I From Page 1 Women without principle dr»» “You can well understand why 1 think it is a pretty | ■> considerable interest. — The Fiel« grand organization. Anything that a person hears against it, Nazis isolattd on the Cherbourg peninsula. Hundreds of Allied planes News. 1’11 always consider just so much propaganda from now on | swarmed all over the area, hurling rockets, bombs and bullets at Nazi out. Anything you can do to help the Red Cross, jdease don’t concentrations to prevent the enemy from rallying their forces for a DRAMA — “Stop, don't shoot! hesitate to do it, honey. v counterblow. Allied big guns loosed a hurricane bombardment against I’ll marry your* daughter. Oh, is the Nazi defenses. Allied warships opened a bombardment from the THAT your daughter? Shoot!" Keep Grand Letters Coming sea. Nazi Marshal Von Rundstedt ordered the Nazis to hold out to the "I seem to be getting along OK but I’m terribly weak. The Reason last at-the port of Cherbourg while the Allied command served the It will probably be some little while yet before I’m back to doomed garrison with an ultimatum to surrender or die. Elsewhere. I never kiss. I never neck. normal. Ikm’t worry alxnit me, though, as I’m getting the American troops gained in a drive toward the German load center of I never say hell. I never say keek. I’m always good. I’m al« ays nice, best of Care. St. Lo; the British pushed on beyond newly-»toh Till? I play no poker. I shake no dice. “Keep your grand letters coming, dear, and re GREATEST FORCE OF BOMBERS ever sent on a single mission I never drink, I never flirt. hit Germany ami Nazi installations on the French coast when 2250 member to miss me once in a while.-love always.” I never gossip, or spread the dirt. The World This Week American bombers carried out assaults. More than 2000 American heavy bombers and fighters subjected Berlin to one of the heaviest raids of the war—and the first big bomber attack on the German capital Is griping an underlying principle of Army freedom? Too many since D-Day . . . Germany launched her vaunted secret weapon this offi( <- , have been heard to remark: "Listen to that ruan gripe! He’s week when streams of Nazi pilotless bombers struck at southern Eng land for six straight «lays. High explosives an«l Incendiary bombs fell a good soldier.” These theorists work on the premise that if a min gripe*, he m at scores of points causing casualties and damage while Allied fighters blowing off steam. They keep weather eyes open for the silent men. and anti-aircraft gunners combined to explode them in mid-air. SHOWDOWN BATTLE IN THE PACIFIC loomed when strong who, the-«- philosophers believe, store up hate and greed. These soldiers, they maintain, will someday "blow their tops—then there will be real units of the Japanese fleet move«! into position in the huge no man’s land area between the Marianas and the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz trouble." But top-ranking officers still hold fast to the belief that a chronic said the powerful American 5th fleet was eager to fight the Jap navy gripe is no go«Hl. It's a well known fact that the other soldiers don’t in a battle which could be decisive. American forces of the Sth fleet de stroyed «00 enemy planes in the last few days in The Marianas as a “buddy” with a man who is always bellyaching. Psychologists tell us that if a person repeats a thing often enough, prelude to action which may-already have begun. On Saipan in the there will come a time when he begins to believe it. Then the situa Marianas, American troops are pushing back tbe remnants of two Jap anese divisions. The Americans now hold half.tii the strategic island, tion really Ixtcomes serious. However, even if your mind isn’t susceptible to such an upset, it including two airfields where fighter- and bombers'will soon lie based' will do no good to be griping continually. Ohl frien«is will jiegin to Scattered Jap forces on Biak are retreating and the conquest of the shun you. ami there's always the prospect of getting in the first ser island is virtually completed ... THE RED ARMY COMPLETED a swift 11-day drive up the Karel geant's hai so much that he does throw a few ewtra details your way. Let the G ermai’s and the Japs do the griping. They’re the ones ian isthmus, seized Koivisto, western anchor pf the old Mannerheim line and captured the Finnish gateway city of Viipuri. Soviets advance«! six who hove g t something to^rripe about W. S. .a. miles beyond Finland's second city to I last open the road leading 135 miles westward to Helsinki. Appeals were broadcast to the people of the capital to evacuate the city .bid Baron Mannerheim took the lead in .4 forming a new Finnish govemnienj to discuss peace <) Fur «hat kind of a wound ALLIED TROOPS IN ITALY continue«! their spectacular advance, »» the Pnrple Heart awarded? \nd plunging through more towns in their northward march with the Ger are civilians entitle»! to wear it? mans retreating all across the ISO-mile battlefront under «avage at A. The Purple Heart, estab tack by Allie«! planes and armies. Last important strongpoint« below lished by Gen. George Washington Pisa were eliminated with the capture of Grosseto and Perugia--M during the American R< olution and revived by \VD Gen Order» Q I have just completed basic miles »hove Rome Further west. American and British spearheads ad- No 3. 22, Feb. IMS. is awarded to Irainiag ia the Infantry. Is it still vancevi within M miles of Florence French colonial troop, complete«! member» of the 1 armed force» who possible fur ate to obtain a trans the conquest of Elba .slaml. taking 1BM1 prmmers in the rapid advawe on the enemy garrison , . . are wounded in 1 action against an fer «» the Army Air Forres? CHINESE TROOPS IN NORTHERN Bl RM A captured the key enemy of the U I. S . or a« a direct A No. At the present time no result of an act of an enemy, pro more applications for air-crew- or -tronghohi of Kamaing. paving the way for the opening of an overbin«* vided that the i wound necessitates ground crew training are being ac «apply -oute from India to Chma. Changsha, capita) af Huium province treatment by a medical officer. The cepted for the AAF. The Army _________ _ resistance. Bf"' f,v* sue -s»ful Chinese Purple Heart itself is awarded fur hasn’t sard when or if they will be . Fall of the city was '-warded aa a n»o^l and political seti-nck ince it the first wound and an Oak Leaf reopened. ‘ was the key objective in the Jap's drive to cot Chma in two Griping? Let Germans and Japs Do It I have no line, or funny tricks. But. what the hell—I’m only six. "Milking the cow. Mis»? “Whaddya think I'm doing, feel ing her pulge?” - 1 ’. -~5 Z” ’ Wife: "The couple next d«*' seem to be very devoted. He kiss es her every time they meet, "hj don't you do that?” Husband: “I don't know her th»* well yet.” “Are you a one-arm, driver. “Naw, I take a cab and use both. LIFE SAVERS' ANSWER BOX DUD shells are too danicrous » *» “collectors’ items ’ and *<«¿1 “ handled or moved. By cm JO they can be destroyed by expert«