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Camp Ritchie TroopsIEvacuated Yesterdayi'Nearby' Camp Closed on mlui* itfouroutingItten:boytlircfutrFourth Anniversaryof Openingf hewitl1 be Lnited States Army has left[ Camp Ritchie.| Yesterday at 3 p. m. tin? tall steel j gates closed behind the last soldier, bringing to an end the full four-year existence of the nation's Ion greatest and unpuhlicuerl iiUelli- ■ ro1genre camp. ! theIfurhavyeasheAs of 3;0i yesterdav Camp - ^°l - * * ■ 1 netAfstasniwaasw ' --a x- I »Ritchie is transferred to the United States District Engineer in Washington, who will shortly terminate all contracts between the War Department and the State of Maryland. Then the camp will be reverted to Maryland for use ofj National Guard training and Boy Scout training.But yesterday the once thriving j At my Town ' of thousands of carefully selected Q. I.\s front almost every part of the world was virtually a ghost city, its barracks ,boarded up, two of its three gates I locked. ■* |By coincidence, the camp closed I ^on the fourth anniversary of its ! opening. Juno 10, 1042.Only 10 men arrived that, day to start, the four-year ball rolling. Major Robert F. Barrick who has resided in the camp area for more... than years, related Urn hardships . II * confronting the handful of men at 1 that time.aThe camp rapidly expanded, and by fail of 104M (he complement num- ? -bored 2iio nf wilom Wpre I t'AO', i sr▲nTile area was extended too. and dozens of now buildings were 1 erected, including a Post Exchange, : ii thoatei. bowling alley and gvmna- i, sinm. 1 he latter was completed i 1; just a few days before V-J Day.
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Hagerstown Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1946
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