HUGE WORLD WAR II TRAINING BASE,

CAMP BOWIE WAS A HOME OF THE
"TEXAS" 36TH DIVISION AND TRAINED
MANY OTHER UNITS, INCLUDING THE
"DIXIE" 31ST,4TH,AND 13TH ARMORED;
AND 113TH CAVALRY.  IT WAS ALSO
SEVENTH HEADQUARTERS  OF SPECIAL
TROOPS, FOURTH ARMY. HE RE , TOO, GEN.
WALTER KRUEGER WAS COMMANDER OF
THE VIII CORPS AREA TROOPS. THE
CAMP HAD A CAPACITY OF 45,000.
   COMMANDERS WERE COL. K. L. BERRY,
GEN. C .V .BIRKHEAD, COL. F. E. BONNEY,
COL. A. G. BROWN, AND COL. K. F. HANST.
   CAMP OPERATED SEPT. 1940 TO 1946,
WHEN 45TH DIV. WAS DEACTIVATED.
IT WAS NAMED FOR JAMES BOWIE,
HERO OF THE ALAMO S1EGE,1836. 

(1968)