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Camp Roberts
Camp Roberts was built in1940 as a World War II training center. At its peak it housed 45,000 troops in 1945.
The camp opened with the name Camp Nacimiento Replacement Training Center, but the name was soon changed to honor Corporal Harold W. Roberts, a tank driver in World War I who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
During World War II, over 400,000 Infantry and Field Artillery troops were trained at Camp Roberts, which included a 750 bed Army hospital was built to serve the troops. German and Italian prisoners of war were also held at the camp during WW2. Italian prisoners of war were given the option to volunteer to work in special Italian Service Unit and work at Camp Roberts' 10th Italian Quartermaster Service Company.
After several closings and re-openings, the camp was turned over to the California National Guard in 1971 for a training center.
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