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In December 1940, [4] Camp Davis was built by the United States Army as an anti-aircraft artillery training facility. Camp Davis was attached to the First Army, Fourth Corps Area and held a complement of about 20,000 officers and soldiers.
Fort Cronkhite is one of the components of California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area.Today part of the National Park Service, Fort Cronkhite is a former US Army post that served as part of the coastal artillery defenses of the San Francisco Bay Area during World War II.
Allendale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Solano County, California, United States. Allendale is located along Interstate 505 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of Dixon. The population was 1,506 at the 2010 census.
Delaware: Fort Delaware: Pea Patch Island: The Delaware: Third System, Endicott: 1824: 1942: 1944: First masonry fort completed 1824, demolished after a fire in 1831, state park Delaware: Fort DuPont/Ten Gun Battery/Fort Reynolds: Delaware City: The Delaware: Civil War, Endicott: 1864: 1942: 1945: State park, National Guard armory Delaware ...
Map of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. The range is a 459,000 acres (1,860 km 2) [1] open-area, approximately 20 miles wide, east to west, and 50 miles long, northwest to southeast, with a special-use airspace of 700 square miles (1,800 km 2) [1] which is used for aerial bombing and live fire aerial gunnery practice.
Fort Barry is a former United States Army installation on the West Coast of the United States, located in the Marin Headlands of Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Opened 117 years ago in 1908, the fort was part of the Coast Artillery Corps and operated throughout the 20th century, before its closure and eventual transfer to the ...
Under the leadership Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Martson the camp was built in 1940, as a World War II training center. At its peak it housed 45,000 troops in 1945. The camp opened as the Camp Nacimiento Replacement Training Center, but the name was changed, to honor Corporal Harold W. Roberts, a tank driver in World War I who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Rocky Knob Recreation Area is a 4,500 acres (18 km 2) recreation area along the Blue Ridge Parkway, which spans from mile markers 167–174. [1] The park is home to 15 miles of hiking trails, 81 tents camping sites, 28 RV sites, and 72 picnic sites. [2] The campground is open seasonally, typically from May–October.