206thmpco:-
More Camp Edwards Trivia:-
To the best of my knowledge that park went south with all the
expansion of houses etc. on the Cape and especially in that area.
One of my daughters married a "Coastie" and lived on the Base in
a single family home even though he was a Petty Officer and it was
quite a house along the style of a Garrison Colonial type. FREE!!!!
One of my nephews is(was??) a crew chief for the fighter squadron
and he is in limbo at this point. He lives in West Bridgewater so the
Base wasn't all that far away. Where to now ????????????
The 79th ID left from Camp Myles Standish and we were asked one
time to go to Boston and get a train to Edwards via Providence,RI
with a bunch of Italians POWs. We had SIX men for three cars of the
POWs - one man in each cars vestibule becaused the doors were locked.
Actually I think you could have put those POWs on the train alone and
they wouldn't have tried to escape because they were getting great
treatment(food,clothing etc.) here and had no desire to fight or go home.
The guy that was our interpreter didn't have to say much as one of
the POW Officers spoke perfect English and all we had to do was to
tell him do thus and so and it was done. Piece of cake detail!!
My wife's uncle went through there as a Combat Engineer and wound
up in the 9th ID Trouble was he was one of the first draftees and didn't
make it home until after VE Day when he should have been discharged
in January 1942. He had a LOOONG LOOONG war!!
There was also a CMTC(Citizens Military Training Course) on Base that
only lasted two weeks to a month so a lot of guys had a vacation on the
Cape courtesy of the Army.
Sgtleo 