When i visited USMC base at Quantico in VA I noticed some of the older
buildings still had faint remains of painted on AIR RAID SHELTER signs -
these buidlings were still in use. NIGE
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From: <OKMTRPOOL@aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:31 PM
Subject: [MV] WWII barracks at Fort Leonard Wood.
> There is an entire WWII company area set up adjacent to the U.S. Army
> Engineer Museum at Fort Leonard Wood. One barracks is set up as WWII, one
as
> WWII POW barracks and one (just as I remembered it) set up as one during
the
> Vietnam unpleasantness.There is also the orderly room and supply room,
> completely furnished with stuff like TA-50 and other supplies (also a
> mannequin of a supply clerk sitting on his butt). Apparently, when most of
> the wooden buildings at Wood were being torn down, these were occupied by
> Cubans and so escaped destruction. Let's hope the musem will be able to
keep
> them intact.
> There are also numerous buildings intact at Fort Chaffee, AR, again thanks
to
> the interned Cubans. Fort Chaffee was where movies like "Biloxi Blues" and
"A
> Soldier's Story" were filmed.
> If someone is interested, I know where three class 600 barracks buildings
are
> for sale, ready to be moved to your site (from Oklahoma). They were used
as
> classrooms by the public schools and are now being discarded.
>
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