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I was there for some Field Artillery exercises..It used to be a German POW
Camp..I dug up some bottles along a walkway for prisoners with some notes in
German inside..1SG PANTANO
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From: JOHN SEIDTS <john@astory.com>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Movie Time- if you happen to go...
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>>There is a TV/Movie to be shot at Camp Blanding here in North central
>>Florida. (Camp Blanding is about 30
>>miles SW of Jacksonville FL)
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>There is a nice little museum on the remains of the main post with some
>vehicles and aircraft. Camp Blanding was used in WWII to train units in
>Amphibious Landing Techniques. Due to the limestone underlying the area,
>the base is full of sinkholes which have turned into big sandy ponds.
Among
>the units which trained there was the 29th Division which was featured in
>Saving Private Ryan during the beach landing scenes.
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