Hey y'all. Doing a bit of research for one of my buddies, Harold Whiting, a 157th Engineer.
http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/Har...roldWhiting.htm
Harold wrote to me yesterday with a request. Seems he is trying to get info regarding a Camp Roosevelt. We are trying to drum up connections of the Internet, but so far have not been successful. Still trying.
Did any of you vets ever go through a Camp Roosevelt in Europe (no not in the states - we are aware that there was one here)?
Here are a few excerpts from Harold this week:
Hi there young lady . need a answer some time , no hurry but i know when it was there but i do not knowwhere and have not found it on the list of camps in France ,On my way home from austria in 1945. I was dischared at camp (roosavelt ?) France can not find any info of the camp this will give you some thing to do. This is where i reinlisted for three years so i know it was there Hope all is well with you HWhiting
In the interim I wrote back and told him what I had and hadn't found yet, but had not given up. He wrote back this morning with a bit more info.
This camp was not a discharge camp it was for stopover of troops with points enough to return home in the late fall. I drove a truck from Austria half way back to this camp my discharge says camp roosevelt . There i got the good news; enlist and get 300 dollars. wow all at once got my money and parted and missed my first ship home wow that is how i got home in dec not oct. long story short memory. i remember the major chewing my but out because i was not on the truck that morning guess my head was alittle mesed up i walked in and forgot to salute well he said how lond did you inlist for i said three years his answer was you will learn to say sir and salute. my answer was YES SIR AND A SALUTE okay hwhiting
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