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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (345 download)
Download or read book A History of Camp Cooke written by and published by . This book was released on 1946* with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey E. Geiger
Publisher : Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620067501
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book German Prisoners of War at Camp Cooke, California written by Jeffrey E. Geiger and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler’s soldier’s came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army’s training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California’s fifty-eight counties and is today the site of Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Compared to other prisoner of war camps in California, Camp Cooke generally held the largest number of German POWs and operated the most branch camps in the state. A large number of the prisoners were from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, as well as from other military formations. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, the prisoners received comfortable quarters and excellent care. They filled critical wartime labor shortages inside the main Army post at Cooke and in the outlying civilian communities, performing agricultural work for which they were paid. On weekends and evenings, they enjoyed many recreational entertainment and educational opportunities available to them in the camp. For many POWs, the American experience helped reshape their worldview and gave them a profound appreciation of American democracy. This book follows the military experiences of fourteen German soldiers who were captured during the campaigns in North Africa and Europe and then sat out the remainder of the war as POWs in California. It is a firsthand account of life as a POW at Camp Cooke and the lasting impression it had on the prisoners.
Author : Jeffrey E. Geiger
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476614245
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966 written by Jeffrey E. Geiger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base. This book examines the history of the camp, starting with its construction. Established some 150 miles north of Los Angeles, Cooke was designed for armored divisions, but by the end of the war hundreds of other specialized organizations trained there. It supported many USO clubs and attracted some of Hollywood's leading entertainers as well as many from radio and stage. With the outbreak of the Korean War, Cooke supported Army National Guard and reserve units. Its large hospital cared for war evacuees and Army medical cases from other parts of the globe. When it became an Air Force base, America's first spy satellite program was conducted from there. The intelligence data collected from these missions exploded the myth of a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War, America's first ICBM missile equipped with a nuclear warhead was based at Vandenberg.
Author : Camp Cooke (Mont.)
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Camp Cooke Records written by Camp Cooke (Mont.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1866, Camp Cooke was the first U.S. Army fort in Montana. Collection consists of post returns (1866-1870). Included are the names of officers and enlisted men, records of events, and communications received. (MF 283)
Author : Bob Kelly
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Meet Camp Cooke written by Bob Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1946* with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Camp Cooke (Calif.) Right-of-way. July 16 (legislative Day, July 5), 1946. -- Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
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Total Pages : 2 pages
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Download or read book Camp Cooke (Calif.) Right-of-way written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul R. Wylie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155574
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Blood on the Marias written by Paul R. Wylie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong encampment. Intended as a retaliation against Mountain Chief’s renegade band, the massacre sparked public outrage when news sources revealed that the battalion had attacked Heavy Runner’s innocent village—and that guides had told its inebriated commander, Major Eugene Baker, he was on the wrong trail, but he struck anyway. Remembered as one of the most heinous incidents of the Indian Wars, the Baker Massacre has often been overshadowed by the better-known Battle of the Little Bighorn and has never received full treatment until now. Author Paul R. Wylie plumbs the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, who were members of the Blackfeet Confederacy. His research shows the tribe was trading furs for whiskey with the Hudson’s Bay Company before Meriwether Lewis encountered them in 1806. As American fur traders and trappers moved into the region, the U.S. government soon followed, making treaties it did not honor. When the gold rush started in the 1860s and the U.S. Army arrived, pressure from Montana citizens to control the Piegans and make the territory safe led Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to send Baker and the 2nd Cavalry, with tragic consequences. Although these generals sought to dictate press coverage thereafter, news of the cruelty of the killings appeared in the New York Times, which called the massacre “a more shocking affair than the sacking of Black Kettle’s camp on the Washita” two years earlier. While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-forgotten incident.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
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Author : Anthony F. Turhollow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A history of the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1898-1965 written by Anthony F. Turhollow and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maureen M. Fischer
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0736806040
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking written by Maureen M. Fischer and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, and common foods eaten by lumberjacks and loggers working in the American West during the nineteenth century. Includes recipes.
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Biennial Report written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. H. Porter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A Record of Events in Norfolk County, Virginia written by John W. H. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
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Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A History of Montana written by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Highlights of the Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony F. Turhollow
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A History of the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1898-1965 written by Anthony F. Turhollow and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard H. Clow
Publisher : American Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589827139
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Rough Enough written by Richard H. Clow and published by American Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
