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FREE: 1944 Envelope mailed April 10 to Farragutt Idaho

1944 Envelope mailed April 10 to Farragutt Idaho
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The listing, 1944 Envelope mailed April 10 to Farragutt Idaho has ended.

Farragut Naval Base rose almost overnight on wide-open fields and rolling hills .In late 1941, the U.S. government snapped up the land to establish an inland naval base more than 300 miles away from the western coastline, where the nation feared a Japanese invasion. For the next nine months more than 22,000 men worked 10-hour shifts for 13 of every 14 days for Walter Butler Construction Co. to build mess halls, libraries, movie theaters, living quarters, chapels and other buildings. In the great hurry and with a supply crunch, many of the 776 buildings were constructed with green wood. The flurry of construction activity provided a giant economic shot-in-the-arm for surrounding communities like Sandpoint, still mired in a slow revival from the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Between its opening in September, 1942, and its decommissioning in June, 1946, this stunning expanse of 4,000 acres served as temporary home to almost 300,000 naval recruits. Located about 30 miles from Sandpoint at the far end of the lake, the Farragut Naval Training Station -- briefly to become Idaho's largest city -- served as boot camp for "Blue Jackets." During basic training, recruits left home for the first time, came to Farragut and learned to how march, row, swim and use firearms before heading off to the Mediterranean Sea or the South Pacific. Others received additional training as signalman's gunner's mates, the hospital corps or radiomen. WAVES (women naval officers) served as nurses at the base hospital.
Another group of soldiers -- some as young as 16 or 17 -- arrived at Farragut from Europe. Wearing shirts inscribed with "PW, " 750 German prisoners of war, many from Austria, worked side by side with American soldiers. They ran loose in camp and trimmed shrubbery or mowed lawns at the facility named in honor of the Navy's first admiral, David Farragut.
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any letter inside???
Nov 25th, 2013 at 6:03:03 PM PST by
Original
No this one is just the envelope
Nov 25th, 2013 at 6:13:50 PM PST by
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This is so fantastic wow
Nov 27th, 2013 at 6:55:30 PM PST by
Original
Thanks fanned you
Nov 27th, 2013 at 7:46:16 PM PST by

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