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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1944)
Camp Adair Sentry — Col. Pettee Made CO 274th Infantry Reg. Veteran of Two Wars Served With Former Adair Division Friday, July 14, 1944. Page Three AG Warns Absentees: ' Show Return Address ' Last Week's Story For Primaries Only Warning that it is necessary for soldiers who are submitting appli for state absentee ballots A veteran of six World War I campaigns is Col. Charles cations to show their own return address is S. Pettee, new commanding officer of the 274th Infantry given in a circular from the Ad Regiment. He wears battle clasps for Aisne, Champaigne- jutant General’s office. The following radio-message is Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel,*------------------------------------------------ ' quoted in part, for information and Meuse-Argonne ar.d the Defensive New 274th CO , strict compliance: Sector actions. : "Soldiers and attached civilians He was awarded the Purple I are submitting numerous applica- Heart for wounds sustained in Oc | tions for state absentee ballots and tober, 1918, which required nine failing to show in the return ad months hospitalization. dress and body of the application Col. Pettee has an extensive mil the postmaster in care of whom itary background. After taking his mail for applicants APO is to be A.B. degree at the University of addressed.” New Hampshire in 1916, he was ' Following queries, the Sentry commissioned in the Regular Army | also wishes to point out that the at the start of the first World War. ' story‘last week giving GI instruc He served overseas with the 7th | tions for absentee balloting had Inf. Regt., the 3rd Division and reference only to balloting in prim then in the 3rd's headquarters. ary elections in states where it is Between Two Wars permissible to vote by absentee Between the two World Wars, ballot. The information had no re he was with the 36th. 63rd. 64 th, ference to balloting in the Novem 26th and 4th Infantry Regiments ber elections. and then was Organized Reserve head for the state of Oregon »ith offices at the University of Ore COL. C. S. gon at Eugene. commanding officer of the 274th | " ■ viiiivi When the 363rd of the 91st Di vision was activated, he became its executive officer until January of ; • father's footsteps; Capt. Robert H. this year. In the fall of 1943 he j | Pettee was promoted in action with Washington, D. C. (ALNS)—For was chief umpire for the IV Corps I ■ the 9th Div. in Italy; Cadet Jack mer Presidents of the United I and held the same position for the j I Pettee is a first classman at West States, under a bill introduced in III Corps this May and June. | Point preparatory to entering the Congress by Rep. Gordon Canfield, Above is one of a series of GI His two sons are following their i Air Corps. of New Jersey, would become posters by a GI artist, designed by members-at-large of the U. S. Sen Pfc. Syd Fossum. Btry. C 882nd Cumulative figures released by ate, without vote. Their pay and FA, to give soldiers the low-down Pal Flicka Washington show that losses to the allowances would be the same as on what it means actually to buy Army of the United States through for electeel members. All but nine bonds. deaths and other causes since th«' Presidents of the United States The color poster reproduced have survived their term Of office. above, considered one of the best, il«« ginning of the war total 1,200,- ' 000. depicts a theme that “buying bonds Losses from December 7, 1941, Battlefield appointments of war in 1944 means a pocketful of dough through April 30, 1944, are as fcl- rant officers and enlisted men to | and big cigars in 1954." As Fos- lows; be commissioned officers has be | sum said, “It hardly takes a c.rys- Officer« Enliated Tota come one of the best means of se I tai hall to know that anyway, but T< tai d«*atb«i 4 battle and Closing date of the Amerio •an we have to have some vehicle to na« bettle > 1 4 otto curing competent combat leader 49.OOQ r.:. < • o H««»»<»»-ablr ship, the War Department has Legion clip sheet cartoon contest, convey our message.” 14,000 diarhat gen 909,000 9-- Hi announced last week in the Sentry, learned. The artists, whose cartoons have Pr 1 »«inerii und 50,000 12,000 «2,°* o will be August 31. often appeared in the Sentry and « »thrr «e|i More than 200 of these appoint Cartoons will be paid for at $10 the Trailblazer magazine, and who aratimi* 3,000 150,000 156.< ments were made in the North each, with a $25 top prize addi- is a member of the Art Workihop, 43,000 1.157,000 1 .900,;' 0 African Theater and all of these jtional. Ideas for cartoons (with hails from Minneapolis, Minn. “Other s« ■parafions” include n ■ n men subsequently have conducted out drawings) will get $2 each for air in an inactive I themselves with credit as officers. the first 25 accepted. Very Literal Dept. istatus, personnel given discharges It is estimated that within the next Memphis, Tenn. (CNS)—During |other than honorable, retirement « Send entries to Cartolili Contest year, approximately 6.000 more ; Editor, American Legion News “Clean-up Week-’ someone - wijh -«I of Regular Army personnel. N t I of these combat appointments will I Service, 777 North Meridian Street, all the garbage cans from one , included are discharges of EM to , be made. j suburban street. Indianapolis, 6, Ind. accept commissions. The WD has made it clear that battlefield appointments as second lieutenants are not bestowed as Glasses, Oh My; Glasses, Gl; Glasses Everywhere rewards. Decorations are estab lished for that purpose. The ap pointments are reserved for those «soldiers who are of officer caliber | and who demonstrate on the field of I The initial two weeks of the battle “that they possess the out 'European invasion cost the Allies standing qualities of leadership re ! 40,549 casualties, as compart ; to quired of combat officers." •«•«timated German losses of 70,600, - - - - - - - - Presidents on Roll Post Artist Fossum More ¡han Million Snows Bond Them Released from Army Battle Promotions 3 Plan Hailed by WD Cartoon Contest Closes August 31 Allied Casualties In France 40,549 Sifnal Corp* PhMn CAPT. G. A. WAITE, director of personnel, isn’t exactly sure ho» to catalogue Flicka. three- dav old colt born to Mary (in background) at the Post «tables ,a«t seek. But flicka. as the colt has — been —— dubbed — - • pending , — a less . fimou« name. doe?*n t *eem to be worried WON'T REBUILD New York (CNS)—The Navy • has abandoned plans to rebuild the .fire-gutted French luxury liner I Normandie into a U.S. troopship. .-.nonage ana critical Shortage oi of manpower and have iwrvca forced <mi< cancellation i j „mteriaia him urri«m nave riiainnl t 'of plans, the Navy announced. Caught in Military Merry-Go-Round Is Sgt. Begley Owner of Eight Pairs of 61 Glasses and More If Tewl John Begley isn’t the eagle-eyedest GI in the whole dog gone U. S. Army, it sure as «hootin’ isn’t the fault of the opticians of said Army. To date they have issued Brother* - ................ Begley eight <81 count ’em. sets of On top of that, he has three pair* GI glasses and a pair for his gas of civilian glasses. And, wont of ( mask . • ■ and they're still coming. all, his name i* now on a list to [ When Sgt. B. was inducted at I “report to the dispensary for gia*- I Fort Carson, he was presented with ! two pair of specs. W hen he went ■II happened nobody I Just how it all nobody) to Fort Monmouth, he was wel report«. comed with another pwir of pair*. seem* to know. At last reports, At the Pittsburgh Replacement De- i Bro. B< rley was still arguing with pot he took in pair* k and 6. Camp I hi* fir»t sergeant about just skip Adair furnished numbers 7 and 8. ping the current appointment. according to General Eikenhov, Supreme Headquarters. Americans totaled 14,162 of the «'■sualties, mostly in the first TWO ¡days when the 1st and 2»th Divi- I «ions met a German division prac ticing invasion exercises along th« landing coast. British and Ca- -nadian* met with less opposition, Cherbourg casualties are not in< eluded in the following figure June 6-20: United States—3082 killed; 13,. 121 wounded; 7959 missing; t tai. 24,162. British 1842 killed; 8599 w. J. ed; 3131 missing; total, 13,572. Canadian — 363 killed; 1359 wound«d; 1093 missing; total, L-IS. MORI WACS WANTED Washington (CNS)—la youi __ 1« ter a Wac yet? If not, she’» ne-'- |, say Army officiala here, as a medi, cal technician in the Worra-"’« Army Corpa. According to Maj Gen. Norman JC. Kirk, 8ur~ n General of the Army, tht jit needs nW women immediate y 'to serve in hospital*.