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332nd Training at Camp Claiborne, LA. It was established June 10, 1930, as Camp Evangeline, named for the Evangeline District of the Kisatchie National Forest, where it was situated. It was later renamed for the Governor of the Territory of Orleans and first governor of the State of Louisiana, William C.C. Claiborne. In 1939, construction crews ...
The Louisiana Maneuvers were a series of major U.S. Army exercises held from August to September 1941 in northern and west-central Louisiana, an area bounded by the Sabine River to the west, the Calcasieu River to the east, and by the city of Shreveport to the north. The area included Fort Polk (now Fort Johnson), Camp Claiborne and Camp ...
The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment was constituted on 13 January 1941 in the Regular Army as part of the 60th Quartermaster Battalion (Laundry) and activated on 25 May 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. The unit was de-activated on 20 June 1948 in England.
The 326th Infantry Regiment was composed, as it was in World War I, of large numbers of draftees and went through its basic training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. A decision was made by General George C. Marshall, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, that the 82d Division was to be converted into the U.S. Army's first airborne division.
The camp, and several tens of thousands of acres of surrounding land, including Camp Claiborne, Camp Livingston, Camp Cook, Fort Polk and what is now Esler Regional Airport were used for the Louisiana Maneuvers, a training exercise involving almost 500,000 men, preparing for the battles of World War II. Two-thirds of the U.S. military rotated ...
300 POWs from Camp McCoy arrived at the Calumet County Fairgrounds in June 1945. They worked at 8 local canneries until moving to other parts of Wisconsin in August 1945. [11] Camp Claiborne: Louisiana Forest Hill: Branch Camp of Camp Ruston. Camp Clarinda: Iowa Camp Clark, Missouri: Missouri Nevada: Camp Cleburne Texas Johnson County
The 761st was constituted on 15 March 1942, and activated 1 April 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. The battalion began training in M5 Stuart light tanks. They learned how to maneuver, mount, dismount, and maintain the vehicle's 37 mm main gun and .30 caliber machine guns.
The 34th was subsequently federalized on 10 February 1941, and was transported by rail and truck convoys to the newly constructed Camp Claiborne in Rapides Parish, Louisiana near Alexandria. [27] On 7 April 1941, the soldiers started rigorous training. The climate during the summer was especially harsh.