"Pre-war locations of U.S. military forces" Topic
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| NatAn Matt | 15 Oct 2009 10:36 a.m. PST |
Can anybody point me to a source for pre-war locations of U.S. forces, particularly for the Army. Thanks, in advance. Bruno |
ScottWashburn  | 15 Oct 2009 10:52 a.m. PST |
Depends on how you define "pre-war". If you are talking 1941 it will be a lot different than if you are talking 1939. By mid-1941 the US was in full mobilization mode and staging huge training manuevers with lots of newly activated divisions. In 1939 things would have still been in the sleepy interwar years mode with the army scattered in lots of small camps. |
| NatAn Matt | 15 Oct 2009 11:23 a.m. PST |
I'm talking pre-Pearl Harbor. |
| jizbrand | 15 Oct 2009 12:59 p.m. PST |
That still would have been 1941 :) |
| tuscaloosa | 15 Oct 2009 1:21 p.m. PST |
Fall 1940 was probably the biggest single breakpoint, with the mobilization of (most) NG units and passage of the Selective Service Act. This is a pretty good link, an entire book but it should cover what you're looking for, everything from Alaska to the Canal Zone: link |
| NY Irish | 16 Oct 2009 6:02 p.m. PST |
US was still manning the China Patrol until Pearl Harbor when those guys got interned. Philippines ws filling up with units after '40. |
| Tsunami | 17 Oct 2009 6:48 a.m. PST |
Well, I know command elements of the 1st Infantry Division were stationed at Fort Hamilton (New York) in November of 1940. My Great-Uncle was the Division's Staff Judge Advocate from early 1940 until he became the Theater Judge-Advocate for China-Burma-India in late-1942/early-1943. |
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