Memories of Camp Wallace Traditional Cache
West Texas Reviewer: This Geocache is being archived as the Cache Owner (CO) has not been active for over 1 1/2 years. This also precludes any possibility of adoption.
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As you drive to this cache, you will pass near some
radio-controlled airplanes operating if the weather allows. This
cache is not far off the road but is in a very rural area of the
park. It is so close if you take the correct road near the cache,
if not your in for a rough hike through the thicket. The container
is a camouflaged Lock-N-Lock box. I hope you enjoy these historical
structures of WWII.
Camp Wallace was located in Hitchcock, Texas. It was designed as a
training center for antiaircraft units in World War II.. It was
formally opened on February 1, 1941, and named for Col. Elmer J.
Wallace of the Fifty-ninth Coast Artillery, who was fatally wounded
in the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 during WWI. For two years
Camp Wallace served as an antiaircraft replacement-training center.
On April 15, 1944, the camp was officially transferred to the
United States Navy as a naval training and distribution center and
was used as a boot camp. After the war it became the Naval
Personnel Separation Center. It was declared surplus in 1946. This
later became Jack Brooks Park of Galveston County.
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