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![Camp Shanks Marker image, Touch for more information](Photos3/311/Photo311434.jpg)
By Michael Herrick, June 13, 2015
Camp Shanks Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Independence Ave. at S. Mary Francis St. on Independence Ave.. |
| | Site of one of the largest
U.S. Army staging areas
and embarkation points in
the United States during
World War II. More than
1.3 million men and women
passed through the camp
enroute to Europe. The
camp was 2 ½ miles long
by one mile . . . — — Map (db m84067) HM |
| On Independence Avenue at Lester Drive, on the right when traveling west on Independence Avenue. |
| | Camp Shanks
This Memorial Erected In Memory
Of The Millions Of Men And Women
Who Passed Through This Port Of
Embarkation, The Last Stop U.S.A.
January 1943 - July 1946
A.D. 1967
To Honor The Camp Shanks Memorial Committee . . . — — Map (db m84417) WM |
| On Piermont Avenue at Paradise Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Piermont Avenue. |
| | Last Stop U.S.A.
During World War Two, 40,000 U.S. troops per month, including many Piermont residents, passed this spot enroute to the end of Piermont Pier, the largest port of embarkation on the East Coast, where ships were waiting to . . . — — Map (db m84404) WM |
May. 5, 2024