Camp Wallace (Tex.)
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Camp Wallace, Galveston County, Texas, was designed as a training center for antiaircraft units in World War II. It was formally opened on February 1, 1941, and named for Col. Elmer J. Wallace of the Fifty-ninth Coast Artillery, who was fatally wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. For two years Camp Wallace served as an antiaircraft replacement-training center. On April 15, 1944, the camp was officially transferred to the United States Navy as a naval training and distribution center and was used as a boot camp. After the war it became the Naval Personnel Separation Center. It was declared surplus in 1946.
From the guide to the Camp Wallace (Tex. ) World War II Collection 94-279., 1943, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
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- World War, 1939-1945
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- Camp Wallace (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Galveston (Tex.) (as recorded)
