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Camp Harmony was established in May 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's subsequent Executive Order 9066, which authorized the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. The location for the assembly center was on and around the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington. It ...
English: Part of a series depicting troops assembling at Fort Lawton before embarking to China for the Boxer Rebellion . Peiser 10097 Subjects (LCTGM): Soldiers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Military camps--Washington (State)--Seattle; Rest periods--Washington (State)--Seattle; United States.
The British camp was homesteaded in 1876 by William Crook, a farmer and carpenter, whose son built a house in the camp area in the early 20th century. The Crooks donated their property to the state beginning in the 1950s, and the state also acquired land around the American camp beginning in 1951.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Strobel (wearing number 23 placard) and the members of Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division listening to General Dwight D. Eisenhower the night before D-Day Wallace C. Strobel (June 5, 1922 – August 27, 1999) was a United States Army officer who was the subject of a famous photograph during World War II .
Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche ...
The first Ohio State Fair was held in Camp Washington in 1850. It had been scheduled the year prior but delayed due to a severe outbreak of cholera. [3] During the U.S.–Mexican War Camp Washington was an important military location, training 5,536 soldiers who went to war. Camp Washington was annexed to the City of Cincinnati in November 1869 ...
Aug. 19—PULLMAN — The show belonged to Cameron Ward, the magician who is working honing all his tricks. Across these two weeks of fall camp, Washington State's blossoming quarterback has ...