Camp Clark – Nevada, Missouri
Posted by: BruceS
N 37° 49.114 W 094° 18.573
15S E 384739 N 4186492
Missouri National Guard training facility near Nevada, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMNJZW
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2015
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CAMP CLARK, entered through a gray-stone archway, is the summer training quarters of the Missouri National Guard. Approximately 2500 militiamen are gathered here each August for military training and maneuvers. – Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State,1941, Tour 10, pgs. 503-504.
Camp Clark continues to serve as a Missouri National Guard training post. During World War II it served as a POW internment camp for both German and Italian prisoners of war. Currently half the post is owned by the state of Missouri and the other by the federal government.