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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 ...
Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana Reorganized and redesignated 15 August 1942 as Battery B, 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps)
3-321 FAR traces its lineage to Battery C, 321st Field Artillery, which organized on 2 September 1917 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. After training at Camp Gordon until May 1918, the battery shipped to France, and participated with the regiment in the St. Mihiel, Meuse Argonne and Lorraine 1918 campaigns. Following the Armistice, the battery ...
The United States Army played a role in activating and preparing the 332nd Engineer General Service Regiment during World War II. According to records this regiment was established on October 15 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana as part of the armys American units (United States Army, Office of the Chief of Engineers).
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 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.
326th Engineer Battalion withdrawn 15 August 1942 from the Organized Reserves and allotted to the Army of the United States; concurrently redesigned as the 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion and activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana; Inactivated 30 November 1945 in France