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When the Soldiers Came to Town

Susan Turpin

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Technologie & Bouwkunde
  • ISBN: 9781891885372
Spartanburg's Camp Wadsworth 1917-19 and Camp Croft 1941-45
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:15 november 2001
Aantal pagina's:230
Illustraties:Met illustraties
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Hoofdauteur:Susan Turpin
Hoofdauteur:Susan Turpin
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Editie:illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:216 mm
Product hoogte:19 mm
Product lengte:279 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:279 mm
Verpakking hoogte:18 mm
Verpakking lengte:280 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:310 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:216 mm
Product hoogte:19 mm
Product lengte:279 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:279 mm
Verpakking hoogte:18 mm
Verpakking lengte:280 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:310 g

Samenvatting

During World War I and World War II, more than 350,000 men on their way to battlefields abroad came to Spartanburg to learn to be soldiers at the training camps of Wadsworth and Croft. The story of how wartime preparation changed them, and how they in turn changed Spartanburg, is the focus of Hub City's When the Soldiers Came to Town, a lively, illustrated history edited by Susan Turpin, Carolyn Creal, Ron Crawley, and James Crocker. Few traces remain of the 2,000-acre Wadsworth training facility and the 20,000-acre Croft complex. Many of the soldiers who trained there are gone as well. But this collection of photographs and memories ensures that Spartanburg-and the rest of the world-will not forget what went on at those bases in those short years. It also shines a light on the dynamic beginnings of the Spartanburg Memorial Airport, site of numerous war games that trained thousands of American flyboys in the early 1940s. Along with engaging oral histories, there are more than 400 photographs here-from soldiers parading in Morgan Square and dining in local restaurants to digging combat trenches and learning bugle calls.