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The 87th Infantry Division was ordered into active military service on 15 December 1942 at Camp McCain, Mississippi. It was nicknamed the "Baby Division" because many of its initial filler soldiers were among the first eighteen year olds conscripted after the lower limit of the draft age was reduced from twenty to eighteen years old in November ...
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 ...
Camp McCain, an Army mobilization site near Grenada, Mississippi, was established in 1942 [11] and named for General McCain. [12] It was later used as a Mississippi Army National Guard training facility. [13] [14]
Map of the small U.S. military installations, ranges and training areas in the continental United States. This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world.
William David McCain (March 29, 1907 – September 5, 1993) was an educator, archivist and college president. He was a recognized leader of the Mississippi political establishment and a leader in its struggle in the 1950s and 1960s to maintain racial segregationism and what he considered the "southern way of life."
An Illinois National Guard member died after suffering heat injuries during outdoor fitness activities at a military base in Mississippi, authorities say. The 38-year-old man was treated by a ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Camp Shelby (5 P) U. ... Pages in category "Military installations in Mississippi"
The Camp McCain Training Center of the Mississippi National Guard is 3 miles (5 km) to the east. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Elliott CDP has an area of 4.5 square miles (11.7 km 2), all of it land. [3] The community is in the valley of Batupan Bogue, a northwest-flowing tributary of the Yalobusha River.