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NO. 985 DESERT TRAINING CENTER, CALIFORNIA–ARIZONA MANEUVER AREA (ESTABLISHED BY MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON, JR.) – CAMP YOUNG – The D.T.C. was established by Major General George S. Patton, Jr., in response to a need to train American combat troops for battle in North Africa during World War II.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within San Bernardino County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Location of San Bernardino County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Bernardino County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard, San Bernardino, California, 1943. World War II brought an Army Air Corps base, San Bernardino Army Air Field, later named after Leland Francis Norton, a San Bernardino native, killed in the crash of his A-20 Havoc over Amiens, France, in 1944 after saving his crew. Camp Ono was an Army base to the ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
– CAMP IBIS – Camp Ibis was established at this site in the Spring of 1942 – one of eleven such camps built in the California–Arizona Desert to harden and train United States Troops for service on the battlefields of World War II. The 440th AAA AW Battalion was activated per General Order No. 1 at Camp Haan, CA on 1 July 1942.
The camp was four miles northwest of the City of San Bernardino, California. It was used for housing of 499 Italian Prisoners of War and as a US Army Depot. Nearby and connected with the camp was the San Bernardino Engineer Depot , Base General Depot and Mira Loma Quartermaster Repair Sub-Depot .
Arrowhead Springs Hotel a resort hotel, and during World War 2 Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs, is near the City of Arrowhead Springs, north of San Bernardino, California. Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs was a U.S. Navy medical treatment facility during World War 2. The hotel/hospital has an outdoor swimming pool, a ...