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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1944)
DREGO” '"T’T’T L’CTARY -MINUTE-'NWS- By a delegate 1066 to Governor Thomu k. jlewsy of New York was chosen GOK^reai- dential nominee, w ith hOr^runllllig mate Governor Johp W. FrirltW of---- Ohio. The national cemk^niiOn ms _ held in Chicago StsdUifli .I.«wio1 (j, ( and cheeses went kac^lfrvjh h* « ra- ra• tion list Sunday. Directing Wllllatu ' Elliot, office of civilian require ment. stated in Washington that the civilian is "just beginning to feel the pinch" cf wartime short aces . . . First German prisoners - captured by Allied fotc-s in Nor- r-ardv have reached the I*. S.. Washington revealed . . . 9 HISTORY OF ADAIR « Beginning on page 7. the history of (. amp Adair . . . Saturday night t lub 1—KGW-KEX stars in spe cial appearance . . . time. 2000. V ci. 3, r\o. 'T t >1 Famed Racer, Ab Jenkins, Arrives w Camp Adair, Oregon, Friday, June 30, 1944. . 70th Assault on Fortified Position Guided by Col. Gordon Ham mend assigned to the infantry school On Page 6 are pictures o- tr.e Ft. Benning, from there to Ft. oattalion assault on a fortified Belvoir and thence to the 70th. position, an important feature Here With 9th Service of 70th Division training dur Command Motor Head ing recent weeks. Directing the problems for all battalions was Conservation Course Lt. Col. Gordon B. Hammond, commanding officer of the 3rd Ab Jenkins, ex-Mayor of Salt battalion, 276th Infantry, who Lake, known as the “world’s safest served on the faculty at the race driver” as well as a foremost Army's special assault school at designer of racing jobs, arrived at Ft. Belvoir. Va., beginning Sep Camp Adair yesterday for a two- tember 1942, representing the day stay which will be featured by infantry. a program this afternoon, designed Col. Hammond was called to to show those who use Army ve- . active service in World War II hides how to conserve them and to . 20 years, to the day, from the date of his release from active conserve fuel. The program, supervised by Jen service in World War I—Octo- kins, will be tied-in with a movie ber 1. 1940. He served 16 showing the speed-king in one of months in the first wcrld con- his record-breaking runs on the flic-t. Following his resumption of Utah Salt Flats. It will be present active duty—he was a reserve Traiibuier Photo ed in Theater 4 at 1400. officer between wars — he was Lt. Col. Gordon B. Hammond Other films will be shown, along k. with a lecture by Major H. A. Phil- i lips. Chief of Administrative Motor Vehicle Maintenance for the Ninth Service Command. A signal point brought out in The 70th Division this week was in the field for 4*a days of mimic the program is the fact that the warfare. The division was divided into two opposing forces, the reds (Continued on Page 5, Col. 1) md the blues, the former attacking and the latter defending. The hostile red forces were rep-* — • ■ ---- 1 -■ resented in skeleton form by the*the week. 70TH GOES AFIELD Laundry Workers Pul Bond Drive Over Top 276th Infantry. The hostile forces made contact A field order on the operation Jon June 27 and advance parties of announced that the hostile force, the 70th pushed across the river When you need a home run into which was estimated to be a corps to oppose the red forces which held the left field, call the Post Laun of four divisions, had made land- ‘ them there, ijjgs at the mouth of the Columbia As the Sentry went to press on dry. At 1000 yesterday. Post civilians, River, and seized the city of Port-! Thursday night, the outcome of the who had already gone over 100 land. They had then marched south battle could not be foretold. There had been numerous prison percent participating in the War and reconnaissance units had Loan Drive, still lacked a frac reached Camp Adair on June 25. ers taken on both sides. Officers tion of the needed 15 percent pay but late that day were driven north at headquarters of the blue forces of the Luckiamute River. said that in genera) prisoner disci roll deduction. The blue defending force, which pline was good on the part of the Unit leaders were called. The laundiy, as usual, was first to re consists of the III Corps (70th. captured men, in that they could spond. and with $593 signed for'96th and 104th Infantry Divisions),' seldom be induced to reveal more within a few moments, hoisted the were advancing north to oppose than the regulation information, f.guie to over 15 percent. i the red forces at the beginning of name, rank and serial number. * I Si.no a Yc.i. h, »Moil 'Trailblazer1 No. 5 Hits Stands Today Top-Notch Infantry Issue of Mog Bigger, Versatile, Better 1 e • I I By Tec3 Bob Ruskauff (Managing Editor, The Sentry) t I I Trailblazer Magazine No. 5 will land alongside the 70th Division paytables and be on the PX newsstands today—32 jam-racked <>ages of it, 25 cents a throw and the mailing free! So much for the bn-ic facts. Just before the big presses started to r< Il out the two-color job down Portland way, however, that strict ly cn-the-ball unit known as PRO I (Public Relations Office) of the The second annual Fourth 170th Division said: July and ’49er celebration will be “We think it’« our best. You’ll* held Tuesday in the Hospital bu«e-' get an advance proof and if you hall perk. The celebration is for'also think so- __ the complete Hospital personnel, | No question about it. The July patients and their guests, accord- Trailblazer is smoother, r.ewsier, ing to Tec3 Joe Sieff, chairman, smarter. It’s strictly infantry— Contmueo on page 7. column 2) from the cover montage titled “In- I fantry—Queen of Battles” to the ! buck cover picture which depicts I recent launching of the fimi ship ever named for an infantry di- , vision. This was the "SJ. Trail- blazer,” shown as men of the 274th I and 882nd saw her slide down the ways at Swan Island shipyard in American casualties in the war. f Portland. including the first two weeks of battle in Normandy, total 244,158. ! I I should consider the magazine Of these, 55,206 are dead—*15,104 a tribute to those who suffered the soldiers and 20.102 navy, marines I pangs of its birth, viz., the Trail blazer staff—Capt. George H. God- and coast guard personnel. _ frey, Public Relations Officer, G2; Secretary of War Stimson re- ported yesterday that thru June 13 Managing Editor 1 ec5 Edmond American army casualties were rno‘<l • thief Photographer Tec5 17»?rt8. of which 32,022 were < heater Garstki; News Editor Tec5 killed. 73,668 wounded. 37,766 miss-. Roby Wentz, and staff members ing and 36.467 prisoner». I (Contlnn«! on p»g. 4. Column t> * Big Medics July 4 Celebration Tuesday American Casualties Mounting Rapidly / Think They Went Tnat Way F/SGT. CELOM of 7Cth Divi- Hesdquarters scratches his Civilians Break 100% Participation, 15% Payroll Deduction; 70th Over: as he tries to figure out just Adair Bond Drive in High Gear to go about finding what Civilian personnel of Camp Adair have hit a home-run. cost of $10,068.75 On Monday they smashed their goal of 100'■ participation in EM of SGU under the direction the Fifth War Loan in record time of 19 days, and on Thurs of Lt. Ceorge Kres-aty, CO, have la plan that will make it possible to contact every man and uige 'him to buy mere bonds. S'Sgt. Jesse Wright is in charge of the : “Minute Men” for Hq. Co. These ■ men were chosen by Lt.* Krea aty according to rank. Etch “Minute , Man" in his own grade will per sonally contact all other men in Hq. Co. of corresponding rank. In cases ♦ CHERBOURG FALLS where such groups are too large to ♦ RUSS OREN OFFENSIVE ire handled by one man. more than ♦ ALLIES IN ITALY SWEEP NC'TH one has been chosen. j S/Sgt. Wright will assh.t these Monitored by Tec4 J Mm Stump men and be responsible for direet- j ing the work. One EM will be placeib MOPPING UP OF ENEMY STRONGHOLDS followed recent Al-jet the pay table to take the names lied triumphs on the buttlefronts of the world this week, leaders count- icf all men wishing to buy bonds ed their dead, while the Russian front blazed anew as the summer of- and will later contact them to get fensive opened up the invasion route to Warsaw and Berlin ... the exact sire of the purchase and CHURCHILL REVEALED to the House of Commons this week deductions for further bond pur- that British casualties in Italy total more than 30.000 killed, wounded chases. (Continued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 4) 1 (Continued on Page 9, column 2) day reached the goal of 15 per-* cent deduction. Now. pay-day. mili . ian personnel of SCU had made tary tary personnel will launch their I cash purchases up to last Saturday campaign to pu: t.as Post over the I of sixtj-one $25 bonds, twenty $50 top. bonds, eighty-four $100 bonds, one In addition to the increa'ed bond ¡•500 bond, ard two $10TO bonds, deductions, the military and civil- ¡making a total of 168 bonds at the I 1 linking for from the porcu- of signs set up at 70th < I* in the field this week. The en- tire dhision was in the fieid for 4'j days uf mimic warfare. Tr.llbl.i-r I’boio
