camp adair
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History of Camp Adair, OregonTRANSCRIPT
Camp Adair: Adair Village, Oregon
Albany Regional Museum
Albany, Oregon
http://www.armuseum.com/http://home.teleport.com/~eewilson/campadair.html
http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org/exhibitions/Camp_Adair/index.cfm
Entrance and Map of Camp Adair
Population
• At the time of Camp Adair’s biggest impact, Corvallis had a population of 14,000 people. Camp Adair became Oregon’s second largest city; only Portland was larger.
• From 1942-1944, over 100,000 soldiers trained for combat at Camp Adair.
• About 34,000 of those soldiers trained with infantry divisions.
Life in the Barracks
Dress Uniform and Combat Gear
After WWll
• July 1944, Camp Adair was abandoned as soldiers left.
• The US Army turned the hospital over to the US Navy, where the Navy brought wounded men for treatment. It was enlarged to treat approx. 36,000 patients.
• Part of Camp Adair Served as a POW camp for Italians and then Germans. A memoir of Sgt Willi Gross, a POW of Germany is housed in the museum.
Memorabilia From WWll