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The history of New Mexico during World War II is characterized by dramatic and lasting changes to its economy, society, and politics. The state played a central role in the American war effort, contributing a disproportionately high number of servicemen and natural resources; [1] most famously, it hosted the sites where the world's first nuclear weapon was designed, developed, and tested.
Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German prisoners of war. From this branch camp, the POWs did mostly farm labor, from 1943 to 1946. Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for New Mexico.
In either 1943 or 1944 Hobbs issued a booklet entitled "Hobbs Army Air Field" that is extraordinary because its last page is devoted to African-American soldiers, including a baseball team posing in their uniforms. [8] Few publications then from bases training white soldiers ever mentioned or depicted African-American soldiers.
After years of combing through military records and making some key deductions, a team of U.S. government historians and researchers has finally put a name to case file X-3212, identifying an Army ...
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in New Mexico for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of Fourth Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However the other USAAF support commands (Air Technical ...
"U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Manuel Trujillo, 22, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 13, 2023," the department said in ...
Private First Class Jose Francisco Valdez (January 3, 1925 – February 17, 1945), later known as Jose Frank Valdez, was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II. Valdez was born in Gobernador, New Mexico and enlisted in the U.S. Army in June 1944. [1]
Holloman is located in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountain ranges. The base is about 10 miles (16 km) west of Alamogordo, New Mexico, on U.S. Route 70 ; 90 miles (145 km) north of El Paso, Texas ; and 70 miles (113 km) east of Las Cruces, New Mexico .