United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge (MD) (Images of America)

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After the government purchased the Tome School for Boys within the northeasternmost county of Maryland in 1941, more than 1,200 acres were cleared for the USA Naval Training Center, Bainbridge. Preparing 350,000 sailors for battle in World War II, Bainbridge became a city in itself, with a PX, officer’s club, chapel, post workplace, drill fields, indoor pools, and hospital. On account of the training center, Cecil County’s population more than doubled. After 1976, when the center fell into disuse, the buildings were demolished. They continue to exist, regardless that, during the vintage photographs on this volume, collected from the archives of the Paw Paw Museum, the USNTC Bainbridge Museum, the U.S. Navy, and historic yearbooks and guidebooks. Images of The usa: United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge aids within the efforts to preserve the center’s memory for veterans and their families.

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