I lived in a WWll barracks in the years of 52-55 went thru one Huricane in
it and a few other bad storms as well and it took it well.The only thing
that took them down was the wrecking ball.The base was sold off to civilian
intrest and was torn down (how sad).Was there 3 or 4 years ago.The Base
Barron Field in Foley Ala.Part of the Pensacola Naval Air command.My job was
as a Seabee was a truck and equiptment operator being a young kid what great
job and fun it was
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: "NIGEL HAY" <nigel@milweb.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 4:37 AM
Subject: [MV] WWII barracks at Fort Leonard Wood.
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <OKMTRPOOL@aol.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <>
> 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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