The Military Series is a compilation of 11 volumes that depict the U.S. Army of World War II in terms of its forts, camps, military reservations, maneuver areas, army air fields, POW camps, the facilities for the incarcerated Japanese-Americans, and a wide swath through the support facilities such as arsenals, depots, ports of embarkation, staging areas and a great deal more. No series of books like this has ever been prepared before.
The tables shown with each book cover depict the number of facilities described in terms of the Army Ground Forces, Air Forces, the Service Forces, POW Camps, the internment camps and the facilities in communities (not at Army posts).
First Service Command
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Vermont
Second Service Command (New York)
New York
Second Service Command (DENJ)
Delaware, New Jersey
Third Service Command
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Fourth Service Command
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Fifth Service Command
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia
Sixth Service Command
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
Seventh Service Command
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
Eighth Service Command
Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Ninth Service Command
Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington
The following book takes all the military facilities identified in the preceding 10 volumes and groups them by (1) Branch of Service, (2) by State and provides their GIS coordinates in longitude and latitude. It a great tool for the individual looking to find exactly where the various facilities were (are) located.
