APPENDIX: Signal Corps
Training Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri
| Getting
the Message Through, A Branch History of the U.S. Army
Signal Corps, Chapter VII, World War II: Establishing
the
Circuits of Victory by Rebecca Robbins Rainsy To handle the wartime flood of personnel, the Signal Corps opened a second replacement training center in February 1942 at Camp Crowder, Missouri, near the town of Neosho in the southwestern corner of the state. Camp Crowder now received most of the Army's signal recruits, including those entering through the Affiliated Plan, who traveled there to receive basic training. Recruits spent three weeks learning the basics of soldiering: drill; equipment, clothing, and tent pitching; first aid; defense against chemical attack; articles of war; basic signal communication; interior guard duty; military discipline; and rifle marksmanship. In July 1942 the Midwestern Signal Corps School opened its doors at Camp Crowder, with a capacity of 6,000 students, and the following month the Corps' first unit training center also opened there. The headquarters established in October 1942 to administer this group of schools was designated the Central Signal Corps Training Center. |
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Map of Camp Crowder | |
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A Camera
Trip Through Camp Crowder, Missouri (PDF formatted
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![]() Roman Grill |
The map and magazine are from the collection of the late Roman Grill. Roman Grill trained as Camp Crowder in 1943. He served in 16th Fighter Control Squadron, 6th United States Army Air Force, Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone. His grandson and great-grandson shared these items. |
![]() Roman Grill at Camp Crowder
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Rookie in Crowder by Pvt. Ned Eller, 1942. Souvenir booklet of basic
training in thirteen comic strips.
This is a scan of a copy of “A Rookie at Crowder” rescued from a garage sale by Chris McCluer of Mission, Kansas. He recognized that veterans and their familes would appreciate its depiction of World War II Army basic training and donated it to the Signal Corps section of this family history web site. |
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