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Camp Upton

Camp Upton

Hardcover

Armed ForcesGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1540227685
ISBN13: 9781540227683
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Dec 4 2017
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Camp Upton was one of 16 cantonments built to train soldiers quickly upon the United States' entry into World War I in 1917. The camp was located on nearly 20,000 acres of scrub pine forest on the eastern end of Long Island, New York. Later, it was a Civilian Conservation Corps camp and was rebuilt for use in World War II. It is now the site of Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was the home of the 77th Liberty Division, whose soldiers, many from the New York area, distinguished themselves in battle in the Argonne Forest in France near the end of the war. Its most famous soldier, Irving Berlin, wrote God Bless America and Yip Yip Yaphank, a military mess, while training there.

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Regional: Middle Atlantic