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Author | : Jeremy P. Ämick |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467102571 |
Ground breaking for Camp Crowder occurred on August 30, 1941, led by the engineering firm of Burns and McDonnell, of Kansas City, Missouri. During World War II, Camp Crowder became the duty location for contingents of the Women's Army Corps, the home to a Signal Corps Replacement Training Center, and provided basic training to new recruits. While thousands of Signal Corps recruits trained on the nearly 43,000-acre site, a prisoner of war camp was created to house more than 2,000 prisoners, the majority of whom were captured German soldiers. Camp Crowder's legacy has been perpetuated through the decades by the late Mort Walker, creator of the iconic Beetle Bailey comic strip, who received inspiration for his fictional Camp Swampy while stationed at the camp in 1943. Additionally, episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show paid homage to Camp Crowder since the show's creator, Carl Reiner, spent time there in World War II. In later years, much of the camp's original property became home to Crowder College while 4,358 acres has been retained by the Missouri National Guard for use as a training site.
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Camp Crowder (Mo.) |
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Author | : David Fiedler |
Publisher | : Missouri History Museum |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781883982492 |
"For residents of the mostly small towns where these camps were located, the arrival of enemy POWs engendered a range of emotions - first fear and apprehension, then curiosity, and finally, in many cases, a feeling of fondness for the men they had come to know and like."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : George Raynor Thompson |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Total Pages | : 1214 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Radio |
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Author | : Jim Herrin |
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Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Collective works of people who lived in and near the Camp Crowder area before Camp Crowder existed, during the construction of the Camp, and after the Camp was decommissioned. Camp Crowder was the largest Signal Corps training center in the world. Medical personnel were also trained at a later date in conjunction with the Signal Corps. Camp Crowder closed in 1948.
Author | : Don H. Mayes |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1942 |
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Author | : United States. Congress Senate |
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Total Pages | : 1876 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : United States. President's Economic Adjustment Committee |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Disarmament |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program |
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Total Pages | : 1872 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Industrial mobilization |
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