Camp Patrick Henry
The base served primarily as a troop staging ground during World War II under the control of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation.[5] Nearly three quarters of a million men and women passed through the camp during 1943–44, before boarding transport ships at the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, most of them bound for deployment in the Western Europe.The camp had its own post office, restaurant, movie theater, as well as rail system which transported soldiers by train downtown to shipside at the James River.The first German prisoners of war permanently assigned to the Port of Hampton Roads were members of the Afrika Korps who had been captured in early 1943 in North Africa.An Army base of 1,700 acres (6.9 km2) of Peninsula woodland became a World War II staging area of 35,000 personnel capacity with shuttle rail service to shipside.
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