It is good to hear there are some old WWII barracks being preserved
somewhere, however I don't know how long the barracks at Ft Chaffee will
last. Ft Chaffee was the Army's official site for preservation of a WWII
company area. Unfortunately, when it reverted from Active Duty to the
Reserve Component, the charter didn't carry over. The RC has supposedly not
dedicated any funds to the preservation of the barracks and has reportedly
slated them for demolition.
Jim Rice
>From: OKMTRPOOL@aol.com
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: [MV] WWII barracks at Fort Leonard Wood.
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:31:07 EDT
>
>There is an entire WWII company area set up adjacent to the U.S. Army
>Engineer Museum at Fort Leonard Wood. One barracks is set up as WWII, one
>as
>WWII POW barracks and one (just as I remembered it) set up as one during
>the
>Vietnam unpleasantness.There is also the orderly room and supply room,
>completely furnished with stuff like TA-50 and other supplies (also a
>mannequin of a supply clerk sitting on his butt). Apparently, when most of
>the wooden buildings at Wood were being torn down, these were occupied by
>Cubans and so escaped destruction. Let's hope the musem will be able to
>keep
>them intact.
>There are also numerous buildings intact at Fort Chaffee, AR, again thanks
>to
>the interned Cubans. Fort Chaffee was where movies like "Biloxi Blues" and
>"A
>Soldier's Story" were filmed.
>If someone is interested, I know where three class 600 barracks buildings
>are
>for sale, ready to be moved to your site (from Oklahoma). They were used as
>classrooms by the public schools and are now being discarded.
>
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