bigpigeon.us webpage World Wars > WW II - At Home, updated by RAC 14 Aug 2020. I hope to build this webpage in the future. -- RAC Aug 2020
"World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose."
-- Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, c. 1995
"World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose."
-- Gordon R. Sullivan, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, c. 1995
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The Desert Training Center, in the Mohave and Sonora deserts of California and Arizona, was developed under the leadership of General George Patton in 1942, and operated until 1944. The Desert Training Center is remembered at the Patton Museum on Interstate 10 near Desert Center.
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Desert Training Center Bases
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Sources for the WW II At Home webpage:
- The Desert Training Center Bases map is taken from a Bureau of Land Management brochure found at https://www.blm.gov/documents/arizona-california/public-room/brochure/desert-training-center-california-arizona-maneuver.