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- As one of 16 temporary cantonments, Camp Devens processed and trained more than 100,000 soldiers of the 76th and 12th Divisions. In 1918, it became a separation center for over 150,000 troops upon their return from France. Put on inactive status, it served next as a summer training camp for National Guardsmen, Reservists and ROTC cadets.
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Camp Devens was established in 1917 on about 5000 acres of land leased then later purchased from 112 owners who sold 230 parcels of land in the towns of Ayer, Harvard, Lancaster and Shirley, to the United States of America.
Camp Devens, Massachusetts, was named in honor of Brigadier General Charles Devens, served as a training camp for 76th Division (National Army), which occupied the cantonment, August 1917 to July 1918. Numerous photographs and descriptions of camp activities, buildings, and soldiers.
Nov 10, 2017 · While a mild flu circulated during the spring of 1918, the deadly strain appeared on U.S. soil on Tuesday, Aug. 27, when three Navy dockworkers at Commonwealth Pier in Boston fell ill. Within 48...
Partial view of barracks at Camp Devens. More of Florida’s Fallen died at Camp Devens than at any other place in the United States. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of the 124 known deaths occurred during the months of September through December 1918, an extremely lethal period.
Mar 11, 2020 · March 11, 2020. Jack Lepiarz. Red Cross volunteers assemble gauze masks at Camp Devens (Courtesy the Fort Devens Museum) This article is more than 4 years old. It was late September in 1918...
- Jack Lepiarz
The hospital at Camp Devens, an Army training base 35 miles from Boston that teemed with 45,000 soldiers, could accommodate 1,200 patients. On September 1, it held 84.
Aug 30, 2018 · At Camp Devens in Massachusetts the influenza virus appeared in September. By the end of the month, 14,000 Soldiers at the camp were sick, a quarter of its population. 757 of those men died. The Army quarantined the camp, but before that happened, a contingent of troops was sent to Camp Upton on Long Island, just outside Yaphank.
