Bayview Motel Hotel Registry Camp Blanding,Fl 1943-1945 WW2 U.S.Soldiers

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This is an unusual and fine hotel registry book from the Bayview Motel once located near Camp Blanding. Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is the primary military reservation and training base for the Florida National Guard, both the Florida Army National Guard and certain nonflying activities of the Florida Air National Guard. The installation is located in Clay County, Florida, near the city of Starke. The registry covers the years 1943 to 1945 and is signed by hundreds of U.S. Servicemen. Between 1940 and 1943, nine US Army infantry divisions trained at Camp Blanding, including: 1st Infantry Division, 29th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Division, 31st Infantry Division, 36th Infantry Division, 43rd Infantry Division, 63rd Infantry Division, 66th Infantry Division, and 79th Infantry Division. In 1943, Camp Blanding became an Infantry Replacement Center, training soldiers to be sent to existing infantry divisions as replacements, providing a high percentage of the replacements sent to Army combat units. The base was a holding center for 343 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant residents of the United States. At one point during the war, the camp contained the population of the fourth-largest city in Florida. It had 10,000 buildings, 125 miles (201 km) of paved roads, and the largest hospital in the state. It was one of the largest training bases in the country. I wonder how many of these soldiers never made it back home after deployment over-sea’s and in particular D-Day. Wonderful piece of Florida history; 9 x 14 inches.
Bayview Motel Hotel Registry Camp Blanding,Fl 1943-1945 WW2 U.S.Soldiers
Bayview Motel Hotel Registry Camp Blanding,Fl 1943-1945 WW2 U.S.Soldiers
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This is an unusual and fine hotel registry book from the Bayview Motel once located near Camp Blanding. Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is the primary military reservation and training base for the Florida National Guard, both the Florida Army National Guard and certain nonflying activities of the Florida Air National Guard. The installation is located in Clay County, Florida, near the city of Starke.
The registry covers the years Feb 27th 1943 to  May 25th1945 and is signed by hundreds of U.S. Servicemen.
Between 1940 and 1943, nine US Army infantry divisions trained at Camp Blanding, including: 1st Infantry Division, 29th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Division, 31st Infantry Division, 36th Infantry Division, 43rd Infantry Division, 63rd Infantry Division, 66th Infantry Division, and 79th Infantry Division.
In 1943, Camp Blanding became an Infantry Replacement Center, training soldiers to be sent to existing infantry divisions as replacements, providing a high percentage of the replacements sent to Army combat units.
The base was a holding center for 343 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant residents of the United States. At one point during the war, the camp contained the population of the fourth-largest city in Florida. It had 10,000 buildings, 125 miles (201 km) of paved roads, and the largest hospital in the state. It was one of the largest training bases in the country. I wonder how many of these soldiers never made it back home after deployment over-sea and in particular D-Day.
Wonderful piece of Florida history; 9 x 14 inches. Shadows on book cover and pages are naturally not there.
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