Camp Rucker During World War II (Images of America) - Softcover

Noles Jr, James L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738514861 ISBN 13: 9780738514864

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2002

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The story of Camp Rucker, Alabama, during the Second World War illustrates the colossal effort of a quiet nation to shake off its peaceful slumber and mobilize for total war. Camp Rucker's role in that mighty endeavor is told in these pages through vintage photographs from Fort Rucker's Army Aviation Museum. Select passages from the War Department's 1944 pamphlet Army Life complement these images to give a unique glimpse at the life of a U.S. Army training camp during World War II and the men and women who trained there. Today, Camp Rucker is known as Fort Rucker and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center. In 1941, however, it was simply a vast acreage of pine trees, scrub oak, and sub-marginal farmland. But following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department decided to carve out a training camp in this southeastern corner of Alabama. By the spring of 1942, the first freshly mobilized units had entered its gates. In the following three years, Camp Rucker trained thousands of Army soldiers, WACs, and nurses. Many of these young Americans were destined for the battlefields of the Pacific and Europe.

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Author James L. Noles Jr. is an attorney in Birmingham with the law firm of Balch & Bingham LLP. His areas of practice include environmental, historical, and cultural resource law. In this unique contribution to both Alabama's and the U.S. Army's history, Noles illustrates how a peaceful democracy grew a mighty army of citizen-soldiers. Camp Rucker During World War II celebrates and honors this remarkable achievement.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738514861
• ISBN 13: 9780738514864
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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