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MILITARY
Possibly 1,000,000 men and women in uniform have received either full or part-time World War II military training on Mississippi soil since 1941 when the troops from Ohio arrived at Camp Shelby.
Immediately after Pearl Harbor military reservations began mushrooming all over the state. At one time, 36 installations including branches, were functioning simultaneously.
Perhaps the exact numbed of troops .that have trained within the borders will never be “known, but at one time Camp Shelby alone had almost 75,000_j3ien training there. It wras at the time the state’s largest “city.” The reservation, one of the'nation’s largest, is approximately six and one-half miles long and four miles wide. More than 14,000 buildings dot the rolling pinetree-studded terrain.
In the first World War, thousands of troops received tramn^^S^Ca1^p^Shelby^^T^F^ir^wwe^t"ov'erseas, and it proved to be one of the healthiest camps m thelana. When the war clouds hung.dark and menacingly, the War Department contacted the late Governor Paul B. Johnson in 194GUtO"See if it could again use the site. Subsequently, the*Legislature appropriated $25,000 to buy additional needed land. A few months later the great reservation was rising under a huge army of civilian workers. Each year Uncle Sam sends the state of Mississippi a $1 check for the use of the land.
Six months after the war, the land is scheduled to revert to the state. However, in late 1944 Camp Shelby had been recommended by high Army authorities as a permanent installation.
BUILDING ARMIES
At one time an estimated 25,000 workers were rushing to completion the military camps over the state. Even
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