![]() ![]() WW1 German Patronenkasten 88 Ammunition Crate WW2 German Patronenkasten 88 Ammunition Crate WW2 K Ration Heavy Duty Cardboard Packing Box (10 in 1, K Ration, Heffenreffer Beer.) Reproduction WW2 German MP40 Transit Case Sign up to our newsletter for the latest news and special offers. Patronenkasten 900 We have in production a new Patronenkasten 900.New Patronenkasten 88 We have added the Patronenkasten 88 to our German crate collection.Reproduction German 300 round battle pack now available German 300 Round Battle Pack (Reproduction) The 300 round battle pack was recreated from an.Sauce label now available WW1 Gartons H.P. New German WW2 Latches, Catches and Handles We now have in stock a selection of WW2 German Latches, Catches and Handles for.Or you can turn this section off through theme settings. You can create a collection through the 'Collections' menu in Shopify admin. Locating Camp Twenty Grand.To enable this, create a smart collection named All Products and set the condition to 'Product price is greater than 0'. "WWII Veteran and Grandson Retrace Journey Together Using Google Earth".Displaced persons were living in former American Nissen huts in 1955 ^ 89th Infantry Division: Cigarette Camps.^ a b c "The Cigarette Camps: Introduction".From Le Havre, the ship often left from the area known as the 'Cigarette Camps'.", p. "The ship made crossings in 1946 carrying troops between the European Theater of Operations, especially Le Havre, France, and New York City, New York. ^ Sawyer and Mitchell, Victory Ships and Tankers: HAER Report.And there were additional embarkation camps in Southern France, north of Marseilles, and, of course, Camp Tophat near Antwerp, Belgium. Famous Cigarette Camps were in Marseilles and Le Havre." Then when the war ended that is how they sent people out through the Cigarette Camps. When the ports opened up that is where they would keep people and then send them to the front. They wereĬalled Cigarette Camps from their names. ^ 103rd Infantry Division: Albums Archived at the Wayback Machine "The major ports had camps for embarkation both ways.Post-war, many of the camps survived with yet new roles, including housing for displaced persons at least into the mid-1950s. īy war's end, both Cigarette and City camps' roles had shifted from gateways to combat staging GIs for repatriation to the U.S., processing liberated American POWs, and temporarily confining German POWs. Exact capacity is unknown, but the single camp fielded "thousands of black 20-man tents". Camp Tophat was a "Cigarette Camp" located near Antwerp, Belgium, named after a popular American brand.Camp Lucky Strike, located between Cany and Saint-Valery: 58,000.Camp Philip Morris, Gainneville: 35,000.Camp Herbert Tareyton, located in the Forest of Montgeon: 16,400.Camp Wings, on the grounds of the Blaville Aerodrome: 2,250.The camps varied widely in size, from around 2,000 in capacity to nearly 60,000 at the largest of the "Big Three", Camps Philip Morris, Old Gold, and Lucky Strike. Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home (Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others). Anybody eavesdropping or listening to radio traffic would think that cigarettes were being discussed or the camp was stateside, especially regarding the city camps. Referring to the camps without an indication of their geographical location went a long way to ensuring that the enemy would not know precisely where they were. The names of cigarettes and cities were chosen for two reasons:įirst, and primarily, for security. ![]()
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