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Camp Peary is a U.S. military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia, which hosts a covert CIA training facility known as "The Farm".Officially referred to as an Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity (AFETA) under the authority of the Department of Defense, Camp Peary is approximately 9,000 acres.
The unit's history began on 17 September 1943 at Camp Peary, Virginia, where it was commissioned as the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion (NCB). After 7 months of training at Davisville, Gulfport and Port Hueneme the battalion's first overseas assignment was NAS Honolulu , Territory of Hawaii (May–October 1944).
The 1944 Camp Peary Pirates football team represented Camp Peary during the 1944 college football season. The team compiled a 5–2 record. [ 1 ] Red Strader , who was coach of the Saint Mary's Gaels football team before the war, was the head coach.
This List of World War II military service football teams includes all those top-level American football teams consisting of active duty military personnel of the United States Armed Forces that played against collegiate or professional opponents during the seasons of 1942, 1943, 1944, or 1945.
During World War II, in 1942–43, the U.S. Navy took over a large area in the north western portion of York County to train Seabees and hold special German prisoners-of-war which became known as Camp Peary. All residents of the entire towns of Magruder and Bigler's Mill were removed.
At Milne, the primary tasks were the construction of an Amphibious Training Center, the battalion's camp, a Liberty ship pier, and a tank farm on Swinger Bay (adjacent the Coral Sea). [2] The Seabee's historian William Huie states that if all the warehouses built by the 105th at Milne were combined it would create a structure 40' x 75,000' (15 ...
Camp Peary – 5 – 2 – 0 Tonopah AAF – 5 – 2 – 0 Daniel Field – 7 – 3 – 0 No. 20 Second Air Force – 10 – 4 – 1 San Francisco Coast Guard – 4 – 2 – 1 Ellington Field – 6 – 3 – 2 Amarillo AAF – 5 – 3 – 0 Alameda Coast Guard – 4 – 2 – 2 Coronado Amphibious – 2 – 1 – 1 Olathe NAS – 4 – 2 – 2 ...
The 1942 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1942 college football season.In their second year under head coach Earl Blaik, the Cadets compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 149 to 74. [1]