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Army Replacement Training Centers, 1940-41

Replacement Training Centers were an integral part of World War II.  Soldier's entering the Army and ultimately the War spent 13 weeks learning the fundmentals of soldiering in one of twenty one Centers that were to be be constructed during the during the Winter and Spring of 1940-1941.    

Replacement training centers were opened in March 1941, about six months after the launching of Selective Service. For the remainder of 1941 the recently inducted civilian received his basic training at a replacement center.  By April 1945, approximately 2,500,000 enlisted men had been graduated from replacement training agencies of the combat arm — infantry, cavalry, field artillery, coast artillery, antiaircraft, armored, and tank destroyer. [1]

Replacement Training Centers, 1940
Data from Report on the Army July 1, 1939 to June 30, 1943



List of Replacement Training Centers in the Spring of 1941 along with number of trainees attending.

 

Camp_Roberts_Thumb
Camp Roberts, CA
    Infantry
15000 Whites  
    Field Artillery
6000 Whites

Camp_Callan_Thumb
Camp Callan, CA 
    Coast Artillery
7600 Whites
Fort_Warren_Thumb
Fort F.E. Warren, WY
    Quartermaster
5500 Whites
1500 Colored
Fort_Wolters_Thumb
Camp Wolters, TX 
    Infantry
15000 Whites
2000 Colored
Fort_Leonard_Wood_Thumb
Fort Leonard Wood, MO
 
    Engineer
7500 Whites
3000 Colored
Camp_Wallace_Thumb
Camp Wallace, TX
 
    Coast Artillery
1000 Whites
500 Colored
Camp_Wheeler_Thumb
Camp Wheeler, GA
 
    Infantry
15000 Whites
1500 Colored
Camp_Croft_Thumb
Camp Croft, SC
 
Infantry
15000 Whites
1500 Colored
Fort_Bragg_Thumb
Fort Bragg, NC
 
    Field Artillery
15000 Whites 1500 Colored
Aberdeen_Thumb
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

     Ordnance
4800 Whites
1000 Colored
Edgewood_Thumb
Edgewood Arsenal, MD
 
    Chemical Warfare
800 Whites
200 Colored
Fort_Eustis_Thumb
Fort Eustis, VA
 
    Coast Artillery
14000 Whites
800 Colored
Fort_Riley_Thumb
Fort Riley, KS
 
Calvary
6500 Whites
500 Colored
Fort_Sill_Thumb
Fort Sill, OK
    Field Artillery
7000 Whites
1000 Colored
Camp_Grant_Thumb
Camp Grant, IL 
    Medical
7000 Whites
Fort_Knox_Thumb
Fort Knox, KY 
    Armored
 8405 Whites
515 Colored
Fort_Monmouth_Thumb
Fort Monmouth, NJ
 
    Signal Corps
7500 Whites
Fort_Belvoir_Thumb
Fort Belvoir,VA
 
    Engineer
7500 Whites
3000 Colored
Camp_Lee_Thumb
Camp Lee , VA

    Medical
7000 Whites
300 Colored
    Quartermaster
9500 Whites
2300 Colored


[1]  http://www.history.army.mil/books/agf/AGF007/ch01.htm

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