Rare WW2 Empherea Post Cards Camp Barkeley Texas Set Of 18

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Rare WW2 Empherea Post Cards Camp Barkeley Texas Set Of 18 :
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A FANTASTIC SET OF POSTCARDS , 9 IN TOTAL , 18 IMAGES AS THEY ARE DOUBLE SIDED, FROM CAMP BARKELEY IN TEXAS .. SENT FROM A PRIVATE DAVID ROCKMAN TO HIS MOTHER IN BROOKLYN NEW YORK IN 1944 - POSTMARKED -
THE POSTCARDS SHOW A MIXTURE OF THE CAMP AND SOME THE TRAINING AS WELL AS GENERAL SCENES FROM AROUND ABILENE TX WHERE THE CAMP AS LOCATED AS WELL AS SOME GENERAL TEXAS SCENES -CAMP BARKELEY HAD A FASCINATING HISTORY ..IT WAS A LARGE US ARMY TRAINING INSTALLATION DURING WORLD WAR 2 - IT WAS LOCATED ELEVEN MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABILENE TEXAS AND WAS NAMED AFTER DAVID B. BARKLEY, A MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT DURING WORKD WAR 1 ( A CLERICAL ERROR IS BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED THE SPELLING DISCREPANCY) . THE CAMP HAD A POPULATION OF 50,000 AT ITS PEAK OF OPERATION.

Construction of the camp began in December 1940 and was completed in July 1941. Before it was finished, the 19,000 man 45th Infantry Division began to occupy the camp. Other units that trained at the camp include the 11th Armored Division, and the 12th Armored Division. The Medical Administrative Officer Candidate School was established at Barkeley in May 1942. In 1942, the Abilene Army Air Field opened nearby to train pilots. The field was renamed Dyess Air Force Base in 1956.

On February 1, 1944, the 1846th Unit POW Camp was activated at Camp Barkeley. At its peak, in March 1945, the POW camp housed 840 German prisoners. According to Krammer, \"the few escape attempts invariably found the German prisoners sleeping in the bandstand in Abilene\'s central park.\"

Camp Barkeley was officially closed in September 1945 and dismantled. The land, which was leased, reverted to the original landowners.

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