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Camp Low: San Juan Bautista: San Benito: 1864: 1865: Union Army Fort MacArthur White Point Military Reservation: San Pedro: Los Angeles: 1888 (Still in use) United States Army Fort McDowell: Angel Island: San Francisco: 1901: 1962: United States Army Fort Miley Military Reservation: Point Lobos, San Francisco: San Francisco: 1898: 1949: United ...
Camp Lockett was a United States Army military post in Campo, California, east of San Diego, and north of the Mexican border. Camp Lockett has historical connections to the Buffalo Soldiers due to the 10th and 28th Cavalry Regiments having been garrisoned there during World War II. [ 7 ]
The US Army's Combat Development Experimental Command began to operate the camp for weapons testing. The US Navy used the vast camp training gunners with live fire. In April 1970 the US Army closed the army camp. The camp was turned over to the California National Guard in 1971 for a training center. [3] Camp Roberts Historical Museum is on the ...
Camp Calvin B. Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range Camp Matthews or Marine Corps Rifle Range, La Jolla (prior to World War II) [1] or more simply Camp Matthews was a United States Marine Corps military base from 1917 until 1964, when the base was decommissioned and transferred to the University of California to be part of the new University of California, San Diego campus. [2]
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and is one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the United States. It is on the Southern California coast in San Diego County and is bordered by Oceanside to the south, San Clemente in Orange County to the north, Riverside County to the northeast, and Fallbrook to the east.
The new base was named in honor of Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny, a leader in the Mexican–American War who also served as a military governor of California. Camp Kearny was one of 32 new camps created by the Army in 1917 as a mobilization and training facility for troops on their way to battlegrounds of World War I. [5]
Pages in category "Military installations in California" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. ... Camp Anza; Camp Clipper; Camp Coxcomb; Camp ...
The camp, which began operation in 1942, covered 18,000 square miles. It was the largest military training ground ever to exist. Over one million men were trained at the eleven sub-camps (seven in California). [12] Camp Granite – Riverside