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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1944)
mp Adair Sentry Friday, July 7, 1944 Custodians, Designers of Armament IT’C C t III TU IT u «.i. . • • . * . * . Instruments and Rolling Stock - ___ * / i n 11 ii tases eignt men in Ordnance to keep one foot soldier tn field, for the work is perhaps more versatile and exacting than that of any other Many of the total functions of Ordnance have* been conducted since the g-*nam«g^ * Page Nina * * Yep—It's the Ordnance! earliest days of Adair in the Post Ordnance shops. A few depictive pictures are shown on this page: Signal Corp* Photo Slfnal OorpR Phot*“ CRATING FOR SHIPMENT. Preparing a gun mount for shipment are, left to right. Tee«5 Clyde Courtney, Sgt. Ted Mika and Pfc. Elmer Hntchins. SORTING AM) INSPEC TING rifle slings are personnel of the warehouse with (in background) Major Harry G. Kautz. Left In rieht are »howw civilian« Oakley Lehn, Ru««ell Wardenburg. 70lh Gls Help Communities in War Lean Drive signal < orps rnoio HERE'S THE BACKBONE of the Post Ordnance. They say they're the "men behind the men behind the gun.” but in this case, the gals are—take it fr,m there. Kelsey: left to rivht. Helen Brown, requisition clerk; Jean Anderson, stock control chief: and T/Sgt. Ralph (Bud) Gleissner. who is Ordnance chief clerk. (See Picture Page 10). As the Fifth War Loan drive swings into it« smashing finale. Trailblazer Division units have played u trig part in special pro grams staged in nearby communi ties. Largest contingent was one sent to Portiaixi and Hillsboro M< »day ami Tuesday. The fidlowing organ izations sent men for the demon stration : 274th Inf.: a two-man BAR Birnol Cn-pa Photo 1 team; INSPECTING A NEW tommy- 275th Inf.: a two-man 00 mm. is l.t. Roland l>. Breault, Ord i mortar team and a four-man, one- nance property officer. Iofficer 105 howitzer team; idv. Ilq. Co.: lwo*invn demon strating the M-l rifle and th« cartine; a four-man 37mm anti (Continued trom page 1> tank gun team; two non-cou« or the enemy. Coordination be- demonstrating the bazooka; an tween the infantry and its «up- officer and four men on a 57mm. By Me. Gggryu Simmons porting arm» wan beautiful te anti-tank gun and a peep and They’re “the men behind the men behind the guns’’ and they also have the guns. driver. watch: close liaieen »«• main- Post Ordnance, the backbone of all the combat units at Camp Adair, has successfully tained. and all unit» knew what 270th Eng.: two non-coms with taken its place as a supply base for vital ordnance materiel here. they could expect from each a light machine gun and three with Ordnance, the most highly tech-* ....... • a heavy and two with a pontoon other.” nical branch in the Army, includes worked 1« to Iri hour« with ewly Tommy Gun that »as turned in The C-2 »aw some of the most boat; all kinds of small arms and artil time out for a bite of food, and as a grease gun. or the time one spectacular advance* made in the 1 70th QM Co: a two-man 50 cal. lery. ammunition and all vehicles even days when a deadline called of the boy* waa trying to learn Italian theatre. He saw the «rith machine gun team; that the Army uses, as well as all to ride a metwrcyele but every 70th Recon Troop: a half track for 24 to 31 hours without «levy. jump off to a spectacularly speedy the parts to repair them. Every lime bo-would «tart owl he would ¡start on the Gangliano sector and an M-ri with drivers; There were night» when the boy» man in Ordnance must be a tech always »end ap in the fence yell where months of familiarizing 770th Ordnance: two men dem were called out at 4200 to i»aae nician along these lines before he a million round« of ammunition ing fcr someone to get him out onstrating all typon of grenades, a ■themmdves with the terrain while liecomea of any real value to the b ec a use the 'cycle wan riding and carried on through a full Ion patrols paid off when the static 3i ton weapons carrier and driver, organisation. him! and a four ton wrecker and u jeep day'» work at receiving and mao- .phase of warfare ended there. with three men; inf to two Divi«ion«. Outfitted Eouf Divisions But Post Ordnance has made a | •'Those «elective service men 570th Signal Co.: two mt-n with Post Ordnance at Camp Adair There wore holidays like Thanks I record of which they are justly 'more than did their part in those has seen to the outfitting of four giving of 1942 when the boys took 1 proud and they boast that they are a sub-machine gun, and four men Divisions as well as many small in a whole convoy of vehicle» in a 1 all old hands at the game now. operations,” he »ay«. demonstrating a pair of SCR 244 Major Walters make« this pre radio sets; outfits that have been on the Post driving rain storm and worked They ray that there isn’t an Ord-, from time to time. There was a ■ SOBked to the skin till 220" that ' nance Supply problem that they diction; "Our doughhoy«, supported Divarty: -UX men with a 105 rJnnnna Mfen- _x_a. time when Post Ordnance con- njght. couldn't cop- with and they are by plenty of supplies, ammunittun howitzer; constantly striving to learn moreiand artillery, will win the war. I 725th F.A.: one officer. two non tained about 42 EM and over 501 They Remember civilians to man three warehouses.' and do letter. ‘But without that whole-hearted coms end six men on a >56 howit The Office force remember« over but it has all been streamlined now i ¡backing from the state* . . . that | zer; and j 18 months of working five night« • a’,d according to Major H I ' a week as well as keeping up a! Prairie. Mi»«. (CSlIi __ Two 1 never-ending flow of fond, «hell»., 70th QM: a 2’4 ton truck and Kautz, Ordnance Officer, the job j tanks and gun« — be will have a driver. daily schedule to meet with the * freight train* met head-on at an The Trailblazer Band ha- been •s I'eing done just the same. • tremendous flow of »tipplie« that ' intersection here. Lone casualty longer time. Post Ordnance has had probably filling a full schedule of <-ngag<*- “ He ha« superior weapon«. He wm a chicken which *otneh"W got I were being handled. Mi«s Helm ! ITMfBtR. Saturday they paraded in one of the hardest working crews can use them properly.” ! Brown. Requisition duet, well re- . caught betv can them. McMinnville and gave a concert men on the Port and even now P ork Detaila shudder when they ' members the time she sat at a | afterwards; Monday they wars in bear the name “Ordnance" men- ' typewriter for over 30 hour» with- . Eugene and Tuanday in Salem j out any relief to meet one more ■ t uned. where Chaplain Pendleton spake. | emergency Benton county i« again i«ad:ng I Benton county’s total for the Tonight they wiM take pert in a T/Hgt. R. A. G lei»«ner. Chief They often laugh about -osoe ! the Oregon volunteir waste paper three month« ending in June was Victory Canter show at Albany. * '«rk. ae well ae many otner men and wemen wbw have been with j of the thing« that have happened drive among civilian gueup-. ex te5 tons. 49.9 pound* per capita. Ariangvments were ma>i» by and always menttoa such tole» ao | cluding army ramps and industrial The staio • total for the three Major Harvey Blythe. TUth Apeei.l 'he »rgamaatiwa a long time, rw- i months wav >737 ten*. bet vice« Officer, r»H many daj* tan: ww boy» ■ the eno about the ua-ew toanbia and romn ercial agvnrw* The Men Behind the Men Behind the Guns' Ordnance: Behind Combat Units CCMBAT SPIRIT Benton County in Waste Paper Lead
