Camp Forrest and Its Legacy Arcadia Images of America (9781467162531) Softcover by Arcadia Publishing

Camp Forrest and Its Legacy (9781467162531)

Features

• 128 pages
• Illustrated throughout
• Softcover
• Book dimensions are 9.5″ x 6.5″

Camp Forrest and Its Legacy is a pictorial history of the individuals and organizations that made this installation Tennessee’s fifth-largest city in World War II.
As an induction, training, and enemy combatant detention facility in Tullahoma, Camp Forrest trained over 70,000 soldiers, employed more than 12,000 civilians, and detained 800 civilian internees and 65,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. At the end of the war, the base was decommissioned and dismantled. Where only foundations and chimneys now stand guard, its legacy perseveres. The over 150,000 people who passed through its gates left an impression still felt.