Fleet City - Dublin, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 42.129 W 121° 53.909
10S E 597101 N 4173339
A plaque by a the BART station in Dublin.
Waymark Code: WMJ8DK
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 10/10/2013
Views: 1
1943 FLEET CITY 1946
SHOEMAKER, CALIFORNIA
DURING WORLD WAR II 3,396 ACRES WERE PURCHASED FOR THE LARGEST NAVAL INSTALLATION IN THE U.S.. THREE NAVY BASES SAT ADJACENT TP EACH OTHER IN AN AREA KNOWN A FLEET CITY. CAMP PARKS LOCATED ALONG DOUGHERTY ROAD, THE U. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL ALONG TASSAJARA ROAD WITH CAMP SHOEMAKER IN BETWEEN.
CAMP PARKS WAS THE WESTERN HOME FOR THE NAVY CONSTRUCTION BATTALION, OR ‘SEABEES”. CAMP SHOEMAKER (DECOMMISSIONED, 1946) WAS THE U. S. NAVAL PERSONNEL AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER WITH DISBURSING RESPONSIBILITY FOR 32,000 MEN AND WOMEN. THE U. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL ADMITTED NEARLY 46,000 PATIENTS DURING ITS SHORT EXISTENCE.
DEDICATED 5 APRIL 1997 BY JOAQUIN MURRIETA, CHAPTER 13, E CLAMPUS VITUS
WITH THANKS TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE CAMP PARKS MUSEUM.
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