Desert Training Center
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The Desert Training Center, also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area, was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and
Catholic Chapel at Camp Iron Mountain, WW2 era. Camp Iron Mountain is the best-preserved divisional camp today. Now preserved in Mojave Trails National Monument.
Camp Ibis, 607th Tank Destroyer Battalion, circa 1942
Training at Camp Iron Mountain, 1942
Camp Goffs Army Field Train station, 1943
California was a major contributor to the World War II effort. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the majority of manufacturing in California shifted to accommodate the war effort, causing the
Desert Training Center
…Armies, the 1st French Army and the 2nd British Army, 7 different corps and 5 different divisions. The 440th AAA AW BN was deactivated in December 1944. California during World War II American theater of World War II…
US Army promotional pamphlet for Japanese-American
Shot-down fire balloon reinflated by the US at Moffett Airfield
African American sailors of an ordnance battalion preparing 5-inch shells for packing at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1943
Soldiers arriving at Camp Freda railroad siding