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-
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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 . . .
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HISTORY OF ADAIR
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Beginning on page 7. the history
of (. amp Adair . . . Saturday night
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cial appearance . . . time. 2000.
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Famed Racer, Ab
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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-* — • ■
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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. *
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'Trailblazer1 No. 5
Hits Stands Today
Top-Notch Infantry Issue of
Mog Bigger, Versatile, Better
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By Tec3 Bob Ruskauff
(Managing Editor, The Sentry)
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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
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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.
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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>
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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.
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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
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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