Sentry News Blog
The title ALH Sentry News is taken from the Camp Adair Sentry newsletter, which ran from 1942-1944. ALH Sentry News is meant to be a “blog” in which information and content about the history of Adair is to be shared.
Latest News & Events
Latest News & Upcoming Events
Recollections of Adair AFS and the “Block House”
By Paul A. DonleyPaul Donley was stationed at Adair Air Force Station from 1967 until closing of station August 1969. Written approximately 2018 A2C Paul A. Donley (on top of the Blockhouse) ~ 1968 I want to share the experiences I had in the Adair AFS...
10th Annual Adair Village Founder’s Day even on August 15, 2026, 10am – 2pm at Adair Village
Adair Living History Inc., will be exhibiting at the annual Adair Village Founder's Day even on August 15, 2026, 10am - 2pm at Adair Village. Come see the progress on the remodeling of the Interpretive Center and learn about the history of the Adair area to include...
Life Inside the Barracks at Camp Adair
Vancouver Barracks built 1905, Justin Docken To understand the barracks at Camp Adair, you have to go back to the early 1900s when the U.S. Army followed a much simpler, standardized plan for housing soldiers. At that time, a single barracks building served nearly...
Easter at Camp Adair – 1943
In the spring of 1943, as the world stood engulfed in the turmoil of World War II, a powerful moment of unity and reflection unfolded on the home front at Camp Adair in Oregon. Far from the battlefields overseas, thousands of soldiers gathered for a special Easter...
Adair Living History, Inc. announces its program for History Day, May 2, 2026 at the Adair Village Church, with doors opening at 12:30 pm.
Adair Living History, Inc. announces its program for History Day, May 2, 2026 at the Adair Village Church, with doors opening at 12:30 pm. A presentation on Letitia Carson, one of the first black pioneer settlers in the north Benton county area. Her property included...
Camp Adair: More Than a Training Camp
Camp Adair: More Than a Training Camp When most people picture a military training camp, they imagine muddy fields, long marches, and rows of temporary tents. But Camp Adair during World War II was something far different. It wasn’t just a place to train soldiers — it...
Adair Living History, Inc. announces that we will be exhibiting at the Oregon Veteran’s Home at Lebanon, OR on April 25, 2026 from 10am – 2pm. This is a very well attended event.
Adair Living History, Inc. announces that we will be exhibiting at the Oregon Veteran's Home at Lebanon, OR on April 25, 2026 from 10am - 2pm. This is a very well attended event.
1st LT Henry Rodney “Hank” Adair
One of the most often asked question at events held by Adair Living History, Inc (ALH) is “How did Camp Adair get its name”? Although there are plenty of sources that are easily found about 1st Lt Henry Rodney Adair, it is still asked at almost every event. This blog...
Brigadier General Claudius M. Easley, Assistant Division Commander, 96th Infantry Division (Deadeye).
As taken from: https://www.96thinfantry.org/generals/brigadier-general-claudius-easleyClaudius Miller ("Speck") Easley was born at Thorp Spring, Texas, on July 11, 1891, the eldest son of Claudia Miller and Alexander Campbell Easley. At the age of four he moved with...
Report of Visit by the National Timberwolf Pups Association to Adair Village
October 11, 2025 National Timberwolf Pups Association Timberwolf Tribute On Friday, October 10, Adair Living History (ALH) and Adair Village welcomed more than fifty members of the National Timberwolf Pups Association (NTPA). These are relatives and close friends of...
Major General William Glenn Livesay
Born 2 March 1895, Benton, Illinois (raised in Purdy, Missouri). Died 6 June 1979, San Antonio, Texas. Buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. 1915 – Enlisted in the U.S. Army at Jefferson Barracks, MO. 1915 - 1916 – Clerk, Quartermaster...
Maj. General James L. Bradley; 96th Infantry Division
Maj. General Jame L. Bradley; 96th Infantry Division By: Matt Helget As taken from:https://www.96thinfantry.org/generals/general-james-bradley https://www.rememberthedeadeyes.com/GeneralBradley.html James Lester Bradley was born on 18 May 1891 in Doniphan, MO,...
Making Way for the Building of Camp Adair- The Carl J. DeArmond Family
Carl J. DeArmond, born 18 January 1877, Maryville, TN. Died 22 October 1943, Salem, OR. (resided at Independence, OR). He is buried at Mount Crest Abby, Salem, OR. He arrived in Oregon in 1878 with family members. Initially the family settled on a farm near...
Raising the Barracks Construction Update #2 as of June 1, 2025
By Barbara Melton, President, Board of Directors of Adair Living History, Inc.Click here for a virtual tour of the Adair Interpretive Center Things are moving right along inside the barracks building that will become the Adair Interpretive Center. The...
Building Relationships
Building Relationships, 19 May 2025 By Matt Helget One of the key things of being in an organization like Adair Living History, is building relationships. That has been one of the focal areas as the vision and mission to what our core values are and who we are...
The Watchmaker’s War by Roger H. S. Schulman
This is an excerpt from a soon-to-be published book titled: The Watchmaker’s War, by Roger H. S. Schulman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_S._H._Schulman ). Mr. Schulman was a journalist for Newsweek and BusinessWeek who turned screenwriter. He is best known for...
Raising the Barracks
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE April 2025 By Barbara Melton, President, Board of Directors of Adair Living History, Inc.We thought it would be nice to post occasional updates about the construction work that’s being done now (finally!) in the barracks building. Almost all of the...
The Need for Preservation
The Need for Preservation - Camp Adair a Follow Up By Matt Helget Last year I wrote a post on the importance of preserving the former Camp Adair site (January 16, 2024). This has been a major part of why I joined Adair Living History, became a board member for...
Polk County Historical Society Presentation, November 2024
On November 16th, I gave a Camp Adair presentation at the Polk County Historical Society. It was one of my more generalized talks about how the camp came to be to present day Adair Village,a part of the history that many find the most intriguing due to being a more...
Chaplains Assigned to Adair Air Force Station – 1959-1969
Captain Russell William Simpson was the first Base Chaplain. Protestant church services were initially conducted by Chaplain Simpson and held in the Special Activities building, a building left over from the former WWII Camp Adair Station Hospital. The Special...
Adair Living History Board Member Matt Helget will be giving a presentation about Camp Adair at the Polk County Museum, November 16, 2024, 1:00pm.
The U. S. Navy and Adair Air Force Station
Many do not know that the U. S. Navy also played a key role in the air defense of the U. S. Operationally controlled by the U. S. Air Defense Command and the North Atlantic Air Defense (NORAD) Command the U. S. Navy provided Radar Picket Ships in support of this...
Legacy Left
Legacy Left By Matt Helget Just north of Coffin Butte is Robison Rd. Feeling the cool breeze as one follows this gravel road out through the farms and open areas shows the beauty and rurality of the mid-Willamette Valley you will come to a corner (Robison and...
Capt Anne E. Hynds – Chief Nurse, Station Hospital, Camp Adair, 1942-1944
Introduction: Capt Anne E. Hynds served her country from 1917-1955. A military nurse, she served in the Philippines, Hawaii and several posts in the U.S. She was one of the first assigned to Camp Adair to establish the Station Hospital there. She had a long and...
CMSgt Marvin Clarence Buckem
Many personnel assigned to Adair Air Force Station were involved in action during World War II. I would like to spotlight one of them He and his wife were "homesteaders" at Adair AFS. He was POW of the Japanese.CMSgt Marvin Clarence BuckemBorn 14 April 1919, Fortuna,...
Announcing Adair Founders Day, August 10, 2024, 11am-3pm. Adair Living History will there!!
Camp Adair and Carmichael the Bear
Carmichael the Bear being fed by 2 Camp Adair Soldiers, 1942. The soldier on the right might be Sgt Charles E. Webb. (Benton County Historical Society)In November 1942, while the cantonment was active but still under construction, a stray bear wandered into the...
Adair Air Force Station Headquarters, 26th Air Division
See my first blog post on Adair AFS click here for that post The 26th Air Division was initially activated at McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), NJ in 1948. It’s responsibility was air defense of the eastern U.S., North Carolina to New York. It was located at Mitchell...
IN MEMORIAM: JOHN HARVARD BAKER 1934-2024
Adair Living History, Inc, and the world of historic preservation at large, lost a good friend. John Harvard Baker, known to family and friends as Jack, passed away April 15, 2024, in Newport. He was 90. He is the author of the well known book “Camp Adair – The Story...
Where the Trailblazers Are…Charlene King
When one thinks of Trailblazers regarding the Adair area, most think of the 70th Infantry Division. These Trailblazers would be a brand-new Division activated at Camp Adair, in that they had no history prior to WWII and was formed as a living memorial to the...
BOMARC Missile Site at Camp Adair
One of the historical significances of the former Camp Adair site was that in 1958, the site was designated for infrastructure and development for a new defensive missile system called BOMARC when the Air Force took over management of the area under Department of...
MIST
MIST Have you ever studied mist?Watched it waver? Watched it rise? Revealing a hidden viewRight before your eyes? A mist 'oer a Georgia peach orchardClung to the ground that teary dayNot wanting to expose the sad facesAs their Johnny marched away. ...
Adair History Day – The Native American Connection
One of Oregon’s Own
One of the great parts of being interested in an organization like this is the opportunity to meet people. One of the people I met shortly after becoming involved in ALH was a gentleman named Vern Staley. It wasn’t at an event; it was at the grocery store I was...
Co-Eds & Columnists: The Women Behind Wartime Publications at OSU
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Adair History Day 05/04/2024 – Save the Date
Location and topic will be submitted later.
Defending the Heart of the Valley
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Gendered Expectations of Wartime: Examining Anxieties Surrounding Vice & Venereal Disease at OSC During WWII
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
The Prisoners of War Who Weren’t Supposed to be There: POWs in Camp Adair
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Oregon State College & its history with the Army Specialized Training Program, 1943-1946
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Oregon State’s Legacy: OSC’s World War II History Project and the Campus Experience
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Gordon Gilkey: The Monument Man at Oregon State College
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Home Economics at Oregon State and WWII
During fall term 2023 Dr. Kara Ritzheimer’s History 310 (Historian’s Craft) students researched and wrote blog posts about OSU during WWII. The sources they consulted are listed at the end of each post. Students wrote on a variety of topics and we hope you appreciate...
Board of Directors member Mary Jamieson, will be presenting with Becky Ellis on March 25th, 2024
Kennedy School6pm doors, 7pm program$5 advance, $6 at the doorAll ages welcome Share this event Add to Calendar When: Monday, March 25, 2024 McMenamins and the Oregon Historical Society present The Thread of WWII Woven into Oregon’s Family Histories Presented by Becky...
Promoting Physical Health for Women at Oregon State College during World War II
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/scarc/2024/02/08/promoting-physical-health-for-women-at-oregon-state-college-during-world-war-ii/By Brooklyn Blair, Grace Matteo, and Ruiqi Zhang A January 20, 1928 issue of the Oregon StateBarometer announces group photos for women’s...
Dances, Bands, and Pageants: Women and Entertainment at Camp Adair
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/scarc/2024/02/07/dances-bands-and-pageants-women-and-entertainment-at-camp-adair/ Students in Dr. Marisa Chappell’s fall 2023 History 363 “Women in U.S. History” class spent the final three weeks of Fall Quarter 2023 in OSU’s...
Mixed in Classification: The Paradox of Gender Roles in Media and the Mobilization of Women at Camp Adair
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/scarc/2024/02/06/mixed-in-classification-the-paradox-of-gender-roles-in-media-and-the-mobilization-of-women-at-camp-adair/Students in Dr. Marisa Chappell’s fall 2023 History 363 “Women in U.S. History” class spent the final three weeks of...
Adair Village Mothers Club: Invisible Community Builders in the Postwar Era
Students in Dr. Marisa Chappell’s fall 2023 History 363 “Women in U.S. History” class spent the final three weeks of Fall Quarter 2023 in OSU’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center exploring women in Camp Adair’s history. By Molly Bransetter, Gracie...
Women’s Objectification in the Camp Adair Sentry
blogs.oregonstate.edu/scarc/2024/02/04/womens-objectification-in-the-camp-adair-sentry/Students in Dr. Marisa Chappell’s fall 2023 History 363 “Women in U.S. History” class spent the final three weeks of Fall Quarter 2023 in OSU’s Special Collections and Archives...
The First Adair Village: Women at OSC’s Postwar Married Student Housing
https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/scarc/2024/02/03/the-first-adair-village-women-at-oscs-postwar-married-student-housing/By Austin McCarville, Clare Buresh, and Felicity HowellStudents in Dr. Marisa Chappell’s fall 2023 History 363 “Women in U.S. History” class spent the...
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