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Camp Gordon Johnston was a World War II United States Army training center located in Carrabelle, Florida, United States. The site's history is featured at the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum.




History


Camp Gordon Johnston opened in September 1942 as Camp Carrabelle and was later named after Colonel Gordon Johnston, a well-decorated soldier who served in the Spanish–American War in Cuba with the Rough Riders, in the Philippine–American War, and in World War I.
The camp at 165,000 acres (670 km2) served as an amphibious training base housing around 10,000 troops at one time and rotating between 24,000 and 30,000 soldiers from 1942 through 1946. The nearby islands of Dog Island and St. George Island were used as landing points for exercises.




Units


Units stationed at Camp Gordon Johnston:

Hq. & Hq. Company, 3rd ESB
HQ Medical Detachment
1061st Port Construction and Repair Group
1463rd Engineer Maintenance
563rd Engineer Boat Maintenance
375 Transportation Corps Harbor Craft
22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division
105th Harbor Craft Training Reg. & Coast Guard Detachment
332nd, 339th, 352nd, 353rd, 356th, 376th, 377th Harbor Craft
534th, 544th, 593rd, 584th EB & SR
815th, 816th, 817th, 818th and 820th Amphibious Truck Companies.
Engineer Special Brigades
Amphibious Training Center
534th Scouts
351st 5th Platoon
In 1946, many buildings, facilities and the land was sold as war surplus. Officers quarters later became the retirement community of Lanark Village. Live munitions had been used in exercises, as well as dummies. In 2001, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found that specially trained technicians were needed to clear certain areas that had been sold into private hands.




References



Kilroy Was Here: Camp Gordon Johnson
"Camp Johnston is Remembered" by Mays Leroy Gray writing in the Wakulla News, February 27, 1997




External links



History of U.S. Army amphibious training. Has a chapter on Camp Gordon Johnston
Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
WFSU Florida War Diaries

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