Desert Training Center *Camp Young* Memorial - Chiriaco Summit, CA
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N 33° 39.697 W 115° 43.464
11S E 618267 N 3725367
One of many memorials in Chiriaco Summit, California.
Waymark Code: WM15167
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2021
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The plaque says, "Desert Training Center
* Camp Young *
Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., U.S. Army, selected Camp Young as headquarters site for the Desert Training Center in March 1942. Camp Young was the administrative center for a simulated theater of operations that would eventually extend from Pomona, CA. to Phoenix, AZ., from Yuma, AZ to Boulder City, NV., and would include a network of training facilities at Camps Clipper, Coxcomb, Granite, Ibis, Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob in California, and Camps Bouse, Horn, Hyder and Laguna in Arizona.
Between 1942 and 1944 over one million men trained on the surrounding desert and participated in the most realistic war games under the harshest conditions imaginable. In a very important sense, many battles of World War II were won on these desert lands during these maneuvers.
This memorial is dedicated to the soldiers of the U.S. Army who participated in these events. The spirit which they displayed generated a spark that spread in every overseas theater in which they served."
Cairn Location: Walk
Cairn Purpose: Battle Site Memorial
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