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  2. Fort Lewis (Washington) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military ...

  3. Joint Base Lewis–McChord - Wikipedia

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    Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010 to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military ...

  4. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States

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    German submariner Werner Henke is the most notable, he shot at Fort Hunt, Virginia attempting to escape from a secret interrogation. Fort Missoula: Montana Missoula: 1941-1944: Italian POWs. Fort Niagara: New York Niagara County: Fort Niagara and Pine Camp (now Fort Drum) maintained several sub or branch camps, including one Geneseo. [25] Fort ...

  5. His grandfather was an Italian POW at Ft. Lewis. He’s here to ...

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    While Fort Lewis housed around 4,000 German POWs, according to journalist and historian Steve Dunkelberger, Arrighi was part of the much smaller Italian group. A prisoner of war camp at Fort Lewis ...

  6. Lewis Army Museum - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. February 14, 1979. Lewis Army Museum (originally Fort Lewis Military Museum) is a military museum at Joint Base Lewis–McChord in the state of Washington, U.S. It is housed in the historic former Red Shield Inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and can be seen prominently from Interstate 5.

  7. LeRay Mansion - Wikipedia

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    While the estate was in the possession of the Anderson family in 1936, the NY State Land Bank foreclosed on the property. [11] In 1936, Colonel Harold Remington (Ret.), a local resident of Watertown, NY and a World War I veteran, purchased the property and carried out repairs and renovations.

  8. J. Lister Holmes - Wikipedia

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    Years active. 1913–1970. Joseph Lister Holmes (July 6, 1891 – July 18, 1986) was an American architect active in Seattle. After studying Beaux-Arts architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1910s, he worked at various architectural firms in Philadelphia, Montana, and Seattle before founding a private practice in 1922.

  9. 44th Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, the division again participated in the First Army Maneuvers, this time at Plattsburg, New York, as part of the provisional II Corps. The 44th Division’s last major training event before induction was the First Army maneuver involving the provisional I, II, and III Corps near Canton, New York, in August 1940. The division was inducted ...