This is as complete an attempt at presenting all of America's military installations as I have ever seen. It incorporates the new training camps and airfields, plus the pre-WWI frontier and coastal artillery forts. I don't think it's quite complete for all Navy and Marine Corps installations, though. The cartographer, for instance, missed Quantico, which the Marines opened in 1917. Camp Fremont, CA, training site for the 8th Division was overlooked as well. Since there was room to add it, I did so. Also, there are a few installations I've never heard of and cannot find any evidence of their existence. My guess is that they were planned but never built. All-in-all, though, I think this is a tremendous achievement, which really captures the scale of the American effort in the war. MH
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Camp Grayling, MI was a National Guard training camp before the war and is still active today. Many officers of the WW1 32nd Division came from there. Most of the MI draftees ended up in Camp Custer MI prior to being transferred to Camp MacArthur, TX.
ReplyDeleteNorfolk Naval Base, Portsmouth Naval Base (dry dock 1 there) both active before the war and continuously active.
ReplyDeleteNorfolk Naval Base and Portsmouth Naval Base (Dry Dock 1 there) both active continuously since well before WW1
ReplyDeleteCamp Bragg, now Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, was established on 4 September 1918 as a Field Artillery training base.
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