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Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II , it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million troops.
The Alabama Military Academy is a National Guard officer candidate training school [clarification needed] located at the Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Center in Fort McClellan, Alabama. [1] [2] It was established in 1957 and has the motto "It shall be done." [1] The training center celebrated Fort McClellan's 100th anniversary in ...
WEAC-CD is the only television station that directly broadcasts from the Anniston area, but many Birmingham stations have towers and news bureaus here, such as WJSU-TV (WJSU is a local broadcast station for Birmingham-based ABC 33/40), WBRC-TV , and WVTM-TV . Alabama Public Television erected its tallest tower atop Cheaha Mountain 12 miles (19 ...
Fort McClellan Post Cemetery is one of 21 American cemeteries listed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as containing interments of prisoners of war (POW) for one, or both, world conflicts. Twenty-one VA cemeteries contain the remains of more than 1,000 World War II POWs; two more also contain the remains of World War I POWs. [4]
The depot is located in Calhoun County, Alabama, 10 miles (16 km) west of Anniston. It covers 25 square miles (65 km 2) of land, or 15,200 acres (6,200 ha). [4] Its northern side is the Pelham Range portion of Fort McClellan. The central and northern portions of the depot span over 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) and serve as an ammunition storage area.
The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) ecosystem in the southeastern United States which the refuge ...
The first class of civilian emergency responders graduated in late 1995, and civilian responders continued to train at the Army facility until 1998 as Fort McClellan continued its closure transition. Elected officials from across Alabama and local community leaders continued to seek ways to utilize the soon-to-be-abandoned Army facility.
When Fort Morgan was abandoned, the call letters were transferred to Fort McClellan, Alabama. In April 1942, the Army re-occupied the fort and constructed an adjacent airfield. [11] [failed verification] Initially, the CAC brought five Model 1918 155mm (6.1-inch) guns to equip the fort. The Army placed two on top of Fort Morgan on mounts that ...