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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.
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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