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The monument reads:
Coxcomb
Divisional Camp
Camp Coxcomb
Desert
Training Center
California-Arizona
Maneuver Area
Camp Coxcomb was
established at this site in the Spring
of 1942. It was one of fifteen such
camps built in the southwestern desert
to harden and train United States troops
for service on the battlefields of World
War II. The Desert Training Center was a
simulated theater of operations that
included portions of California, Arizona
and Nevada. The other camps were Young,
Granite, Iron Mountain, Ibis, Clipper,
Pilot Knob, Laguna, Horn, Hyder, Bouse
and Rice.
A total of thirteen infantry
divisions and seven armored divisions
plus numerous smaller units were trained
in this harsh environment. The Training
Center was in operation for almost 2
years and was closed early in 1944 when
the last units were shipped overseas.
During the brief period of operation
over one million American soldiers were
trained for combat.
The Sixth Armored
Division was declared a liberating unit
by the US Army's Center of Military
History and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum for the liberation of
the Buchenwald Concentration Camp on
April 11, 1945.
This monument is
dedicated to all the soldiers that
served here, and especially for those
who gave their lives in battle, ending
the Holocaust and defeating the armed
forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy
and Imperial Japan.
Plaque placed by
the Billy Holcomb Chapter of the Ancient
& Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus and
the Veterans of the 6th Armored Division
and the 7th Armored Armored Division
Associations, in cooperation with the
Bureau of Land Management, Needles
Resource Area.
November 11, 1989
Re-Dedicated March 14, 2014
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