Camp Grant (IL) (Images of America)

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“Good old Camp Grant, right with reference to home.” Those words, true on the time they were written Right through World War II, applied to Camp Grant from the beginning. Tracks were laid in what was once a farm field in northwest Illinois, and inside the span of 90 days a small city was once built. Right through its use as a post, thousands of soldiers were trained at what became Camp Grant. Local businesses showed loyal enhance for the troops and those working on the station hospital did their best for the returning wounded.

The story of Camp Grant can’t be told simply during the forming of the camp, the training that took place, or the camp’s eventual demise. Each and every part is a story unto itself, retold during the memories and photographs from the World War I troops, Illinois National Guardsmen, World War II draftees, medical body of workers, and German POWs that passed through. Those photographs are gathered together here, narrating and preserving the story of Camp Grant.

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