Camp Bowie (Brown County, Tex.)
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Name (Latin)
Camp Bowie (Brown County, Tex.)
Other forms of name
Texas. Camp Bowie (Brown County, Tex.)
Texas. National Guard. Camp Bowie (Brown County, Tex.)
Coordinates
-98.95711111 -98.95711111 31.65813889 31.65813889 (gooearth )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Handbook of Texas, 1952:v.1, p. 278 (Two United States Army camps named Camp Bowie, one est. at Fort Worth during WWI, second est. during WWII at Brownwood. Both camps were est. as training centers for the 36th Division, Texas National Guard)
- Ranchers, farmers, soldiers, and the CCC, c2002:t.p. (Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas) p. 1 (Camp Bowie created as training facility for the Tex. National Guard's 36th Infantry Division in Sept. 1940; decommissioned in Nov. 1946; last troops left in Jan. 1947; south-central Brown County)
Wikipedia description:
Camp Bowie is a Texas Military Department training center located in west-central Texas just to the south of Brownwood.
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