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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 21, 2017
Caption: US Army Camp White Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top center) The center of Camp White was the "building core." a mile wide and four mile long on either side of the new Crater Lake Highway. Division troops were housed to the east and Post troops (that ran the camp) and others were to the west. The huge Station Hospital was a separate rectangular area at the north, The building core had more than 1400 buildings when it was completed.; (bottom center) General Thomas, 2nd fro the right, reviews the Troops, 1942.; (top right) The first of the two divisions at Camp White was the 91st, the Fir (sic) Tree Division, that was reactivated here in September 1942. Under the command of Maj. General Charles H. Gerhardt, Camp White's tough training earned it the reputation as "The Alcatraz of Army Camps." The 91st served with distinction on the European front, participating in battle in Rome and the Arno River. The division was deactivated at Camp Rucker, Alabama in December 1945.; (bottom right) Much of the 77-square miles of Camp White was occupied by the two huge training ranges, Feagle to there south and Antelope to the south. There troops experienced live-ammo exercises, learned to use their weapons, ford the Rogue River under fire, storm pillboxes and even capture the "Nazi Village," a collection of relocated farm houses.
Submitted: January 13, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p412020
File Size: 3.588 Megabytes

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