Desert Training Center
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United States ArmyWorld War II1924 - 2002
Whose dedication to the memory of his brothers inarms, who fell in the Battle of the Ardennes, made thishistorical park possible.
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Camps Hyder & Horn were established 10 miles north of Dateland in the fall of 1943. They were 2 of 15 desert camps built to harden and train United States Troops for service in World War II. The Desert Training Center was a simulated theater of operations t…
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Camp BouseSeptember 1943 to March 1944"The Kid Battalion"From Normandy to the Elbe:·Normandy·Northern France·Ardennes·Rhineland·Central Europe
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Camp Clipper was established at a site that reachedFrom Essex Road to this location in the spring of1942. It was one of twelve such camps built in theSouthwestern Desert to harden and train United States troops for service on the battlefields ofWorld War II…
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Camp Coxcomb was established at this site in the Spring of 1942. It was one of fifteen such camps built in the southwestern deserts to harden and train United States troops for service on the battlefields of World War II. The Desert Training Center was a si…
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During the opening days of the World War II, more than 18,000 square miles of the Arizona and California desert were designated by the U.S. Army as a military training facility. The facility, conceived by General George Patton and referred to as the Desert …
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Iron Mountain divisional camp 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 first major unit …