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Frankfurt: 97 Gen Hosp Barracks and Family Housing Bismarck Kaserne Schwäbisch Gmünd: closed 1991 Bitburg Air Base Bitburg: closed 1994 Butzbach Kaserne Butzbach: closed 2008 Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne Darmstadt: closed 2008 Campbell Barracks: Heidelberg: closed 2013 this was USAREUR (US ARmy EURope) HQ Camp Grohn: Bremen: returned to German ...
During the Second World War, Camp Atterbury had 1,780 buildings providing housing to 44,159 officers and troops, including 499 enlisted men barracks, 40 Bachelor Officer Quarters (BOQs), 23 WAC barracks, 61 prisoner-of-war (POW) barracks, 193 mess halls, 12 chapels, 5 service clubs, 3 officers clubs, 6 theaters, 4 gymnasiums, and 4 swimming pools.
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The 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion winning the touch football championship at Camp Atterbury during World War II. During its use as a military training facility between 1942 and 1944, four U.S. Army infantry divisions trained at the camp before they were deployed overseas: the 30th, 83rd, 92nd, and 106th infantry divisions. Camp Atterbury also ...
- 1942
- 1942–46, 1950–54, 1969–present
- United States
- Military and civilian training post
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The World War II Database is founded and managed by C. Peter Chen of Lava Development, LLC. The goal of this site is two fold. First, it is aiming to offer interesting and useful information about WW2.
For an overview of US Military bases worldwide, please see here. For the Department of Defense’s Base Structure Report 2009, please see here. For a complete list of past and present US military facilities in Germany, please see here.
Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city). In the 1939–45 period the Royal Air Force (RAF) dropped 15,696 long tons of bombs on Frankfurt.
Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor During World War II. by Stephanie D Hinnershitz. This book by my friend and colleague Stephanie Hinnershitz is simply one of the best and most important books of 2021. Her research yields a number of vital findings, but two stand out here.
