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About Abbot engineer. (Camp Abbot, Or.) 1943-1944 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1944)
OREGON 'TATE UBRAP.Y JAN 1 4 M 4----- ATTEND THE W A R N YOUR RADIO SH O W FAMILY TO T O M O R RO W STAY H O M E C A M P ABBOT, O REG O N HAPPY LANDINGS Camp Abbot, Ore., Jan. 8, 1944 ’Chute Troops Strike at 51st B y S taff S gt . G eorge S. F ly IN THE FIELD WITH AN ERTC BATTALION— Both companies of the 51st Battalion now on a combat maneuver were “attacked” by enemy patrols Thursday night. The attack was near midnight and continued for two hours. It came from parachute troops that had been landed earlier in the evening under cover of darkness and cleverly concealed themselves prior to the attack. Housing Board Warns Against Importing' Kin Company A succeeded in cap turing three of the enemy before they had done any damage. An other member of the raiding party in a suicide attack was able to destroy the commanding officer and the command post before being nabbed. Company B suffered consider able damage from the attack. The command post, mess and lots of the battalion vehicles were destroyed by the raiders, as w'ell as almost one-third of the personnel being killed. The attackers of this group were abL?. *° 0SCaP° in the confusion. The battalion took the field Monday and received orders lo take up defensive works and pre- pare for offensive. They corn- pleted removal of mine fields, Wire obstacles and demolition charges by working until mid- The next day they assisted the 91st Division in preparing for an offensive, work that included imPr°vomcnt of roads, starting construction an emergency ajr iieW and of execution of va).. ious reconnaissance missions, This type or engineering mis- sion, preparatory to an attack on ,b<‘ rnomy, now marching in land, was continued until yes terday when a detailed river crossing reconnaissance \v a s made preparatory to throwing ,t pontoon bridge across the Des chutes river in the plan to start an offensive. The battalion is continuing with all battle preparation des pite the weather. They have suf fered heavy casualties from the enemy raids and bombing at tacks, and have contended with snow that ranges from six in ches to m o r e than a l o o t in depth. Military personnel who insist on bringing their families to 1 communities near Camp Abbot without first having obtained suitable accomodations were warned by the Post Housing Board this week that it may be necessary for the families to re- Trainees of the 51st Engineer Training Battalion will construct a landing strip similar to this to ac turn to the community from comodate a reconnaisanee plane which will participate in one phase of their current unit problem. which they came by the most Strips similar to this one, constructed by other Camp Abbot trainees, have played a vital part in car suitable means of transportation rying the war to the enemy by making possible the use of fields otherwise unserviceable because of available. sand or mud. The warning, similar to sev- eral issued recently but more emphatic, was an outgrowth of an announcement by the Bend Chamber of Commerce that dur- mg the past few days a number of wives and relatives have ap- The “Victory Parade” radio show, broadcast from plied in Bend for housing ac- Camp Abbot last week through the facilities of Station comodations. KWJJ in Portland, will reach the ether waves for the A plaque for the outstanding ‘‘It is almost impossible to second time Sunday when the program, modified slightly, of Camp Abbot was award- paint the picture as bad as it will be carried over KXL, Portland’s 10,000-watt station, mess this week to Company C, 55th really is,” Don H. Peoples, sec and KBND in Bend, the Spe Engr. Trng. Bn. The final score retary of the Chamber of Com cial Service Office announced i of the company was 95 per cent, merce, said. "Last Monday alone, yesterday. only a few points higher than 30 arm y wives applied for ac Sponsored by employes of the that of the Wac company which comodations and not a single Barde Steel Company in Port won first honorable mention roorfl was available. Virtually land and devoted to VVac recruit with a final score of 94.62 per every spare room in the city has ment, the program will origin cent. Honorable mention went to been occupied.” ate from the Service Club and Since reduction in personnel will be open to all Post person The USO In Bend, Camp Ab Co. A, 58th with 93.62. nel and visitors who wish to at bot’s off-the-post retreat, will A committee which selected has made it impossible to place tend. Transcriptions of the full have lost at least two-thirds of the winning mess was composed a Camp Abbot representative on 45-minute show will be made for its staff and possibly its entire of Lts. Keith W. Beardmore, duty at the Bend Chamber of the Housing Board use on the Post public address of directors by Jan. 15, it W i l l a r d L. Langhus, and Commerce, appointed last has assum system. Time for the broadcast group was announced this week. No Due lo the interest shown by ed responsibility week for the housing is 3 p. m. Camp Abbot personnel in the successors have been named. Although the program has not First vacancy in the staff oc Post’s food conservation pro problem in instances concerning personnel. Hereafter, been set, plans provide for a talk curred when H arry gram, three plaques »rill be military all Camp Abbot personnel apply by Col. Frank S. Besson, ERTC O’Grady, Wednesday associate director of awarded to mess halls in the commander; songs by a Wac oc the club, left Bend to accept an future instead of one, Post ing in Bend for housing accom tette and members of Company assignment as managing direc Headquarters announced yes modations will be referred to B, 52nd Battalion; Vocal selec tor of the new USO club in Seat terday. One plaque will be the appropriate branch of the tions by Lt. Robert Herring; tle, Wash. Simultaneously, Miss a»varded in the 11th Engineer Personnel Division through the numbers by the Arkansas Trio Ann McLaughlin, associate di Training Group, one in the Civilian Employment Office in Camp Abbot soldiers who and music by the Camp Abbot rector wish to take up flying, maintain in charge of the women’s 12th Group and one to units Bend. Personnel memoranda outlin band and dance orchestra. their civil pilot certificate or returned from her under the Headquarters com- ing procedures to be followed in take Pvt. Buddy Hyde, former Hol: division, examinations for higher home in Lodi, Calf., to announce I mandant. connection with procurement of flight rating now may do so at lywood emcee, will be m aster of that in about two weeks she ceremonies and the technical housing will be issued the Bend Municipal Airport, s it begin a leave of absence Thomas P. Kruzic. The follow suitable by the Post board soon. Mean miles northeast of Bend, Lt. aspects of the program will be must ing points, were considered in from USO work because of her while, soldiers urged to Frank S. Myers of the Civil Air handled by members of the health. The third name which making the awards in addition warn their families are against mov Patrol announced this week. KBND staff. to the regular inspection re may be scratched from the rost ing to Bend and thereby avert The Tilse Flying Service has ports: Analysis, by the commit er is that of Robert Weis, assis inconvenience to them available for rental Piper Cruis tant director, who has received tee, of all inspection reports for serious their families and the ers, Taylorcrafts and Porter Red Cross Gets a notice to report for induction. the month of December; final selves, board. fields at rates from $7 an hour inspection of the three most Mr. Weis was rejected in .earlier solo to S9 an hour dual. An in- New Personnel qualified messes; initiative of attem pts to join the service. structor is on hand for checkouts R. Leonel Gray, former assis Mr. O’Grady came to Bend mess personnel in cooperating tant field director at the Walla last June about a month and a with the training program and Masons to Induct and to help in preparing any grade certificate. Appointments Walla, Wash., Air Base, is act half after the club opened here solving of mess problems; atten ing field director of the Ameri to take over his first USO post. dance of mess personnel at food Camp Abbot Class may be made for any hour by can Red Cross here during the Previously he had been a Boy program meetings and interest The degree of Royal Arch ’phoning 13-F-5. absence of the director, Frank Scout executive in New York displayed; and original ideas Mason will be conferred on a Lieutenant Myers holds a com submitted to the Bakers and large class of candidates from mercial certificate and an in- Dunning, who is on 30-day leave. City for many years. John Butler of Hartford, Miss McLaughlin came to Cooks School, or put into prac Camp Abbot at a meeting in the structor’s rating and has logged Bend Masonic Lodge rooms at 8 more than 1400 hours. He has Conn,, is another new member Bend in mid-May, two weeks tice by organization messes. ef the Red Cross staff here. He after the USO club had been put In arriring at their decision o’clock tonight. All Royal Arch been stationed at a CAP Coastal came to Camp Abbot following into hurried operation by com the committee struck an aver Masons are invited to attend. Patrol base in the Gulf ol Mcx- tw o weeks of instructional munity volunteers headed by age of their inspection and an The High Priest of the State of ico for more than a year an l duties at Washington, D. C., and Carl Johnson, president of the alysis and compared it with the Oregoa will be present. Refresh- now is on a leave of absence un- ments will be served. , til February 1. , mess inspection average. San Francisco. (Continued on Page 4) Broadcast Tomorrow of C 55 Edges Out 'Victory Parade' Show Wacs to Take New Mess Award Bend USO Loses Key Personnel Soldiers Taught To Fly in Bend