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    Camp Swift is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,943 at the 2020 census. Camp Swift began as...
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    Citizens Military Training Camps (CMTC). If a man had completed at least one year in ROTC, or had completed one 4-week CMTC camp, he could also enlist in...
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    Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop (category Buildings of the United States government in Texas)
    administrative-low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Camp Swift, Texas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the...
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    the Troop was ordered into active military service and organized at Camp Swift, Texas. It was reorganized and redesignated in October 1945 as the 97th Mechanized...
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    Camp Bowie, Texas 10 November 1945, Camp Swift, Texas Served as XXI Corps antitank section 17th Tank Destroyer Group 10 April 1943, Camp Bowie, Texas...
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    the Rhine river crossing at Remagen. The battalion was activated at Camp Swift, Texas, on 29 March 1943, by the redesignation of the 2nd Battalion, 52nd...
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  • Battalion 80th Chemical Mortar Battalion 30 June 1944, Camp Swift, Texas 1 February 1946, Camp Stoneman, California Leyte, Southern Philippines 81st Chemical...
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    prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located...
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    Rocks in West Virginia. On 22 June 1944, the division was shipped to Camp Swift, Texas, to prepare for maneuvers in Louisiana, which were later canceled...
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    now the 82nd Airborne Division. Swift was born on May 11, 1854, at Fort Chadbourne, Texas, to Captain Ebenezer Swift and his wife, Sarah. He attended...
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    the 1696th Engineer Combat Battalion (Colored) on 19 March 1944 at Camp Swift, Texas. The 155 mm gun was also used by several Marine defense battalions...
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    into active military service 25 February 1943 and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas, as the 97th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 97th...
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    command elements of the 10th Mountain Division. It was activated at Camp Swift, Texas, while the division was staging in preparation for deployment to Europe...
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    Camp Mabry (ICAO: KATT) is a military installation in Austin, Texas, housing the headquarters of the Texas Military Department, Texas Military Forces...
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  • Fort Cavazos (redirect from Camp Hood)
    Gatesville, Texas were purchased. The site near Gatesville was known as the sub-camp and later as North Camp Hood. During the war years, North Camp Hood housed...
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    active military service on July 15, 1942, and was reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas. The 95th Division was reorganized as a triangular division for World...
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    the surge the battalion constructed the base camp facilities for the 3/3 BCT at FOB Hammer, 4/2 BCT at Camp Taji, 4 Joint Security Stations in support of...
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    Europe Source: The 146th Engineer Combat Regiment was activated at Camp Swift, Texas, on 25 January 1943. On 1 April 1943 it was redesignated the 1116th...
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    division was ordered into active military service and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas. Major General Harry L. Twaddle was assigned to command, and he remained...
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    served with the 2nd Division at Camp Swift, Texas until April 1946. Harrison was then appointed commanding general at Camp Carson, Colorado, where he was...
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    active military service during World War II on 25 February 1943 at Camp Swift, Texas, the last of the Organized Reserve infantry divisions to enter active...
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  • (United States), ordered to active military service and organized at Camp Swift, Texas in February 1943 193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), a Red Army infantry...
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    a part of the 10th Mountain Division to Camp Swift, Texas. On 20 December 1944, 2–87 entrained from Camp Swift to Newport News, Virginia and embarked on...
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    48 different Army divisions. The 144th moved to Camp Swift, Texas, on 5 January 1945, and then to Camp Rucker, Alabama, on 4 April 1945 under the Replacement...
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    University of North Texas Special Collections. Retrieved March 29, 2020. "The Screaming Eagle, Volume 1, Number 5". University of North Texas Special Collections...
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    Czechoslovakia. Following the end of the war, it left Europe to return to Camp Swift, Texas in July 1945 in preparation for deployment to the Pacific. For its...
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    ordered into active military service on 15 July 1942 and reorganized at Camp Swift, Texas, as the 95th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 95th...
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  • activated 29 January 1943 at Camp Swift, Texas. On 25 September 1943, the Battalion arrived at Bourock, Scotland and on to Proteus Camp to assist the populace...
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    transferred to Camp Swift, Texas on 28 August 1944. It moved to Camp Callan, California, on 20 December 1944 before returning to Camp Swift on 28 January...
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    temporary colonel in December 1941. In May 1942, Barnett was assigned to Camp Swift, Texas as commander of the 378th Infantry Regiment. In July 1942, he was...
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