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Activated in Oct. 1940 and deactivated in Dec. 1945, Camp Claiborne was named for William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Louisiana. It was part of the 8th Service Command and was home to the U.S. Army's 34th Infantry Division, the first American force sent to the European theater. Its 23,000 acres also served as the center of the famous Louisiana Maneuvers, the largest peacetime war games ever conducted. Almost 500,000 American troops trained there between 1940 and 1945, and when Congress deactivated the camp, use of the land returned to the U.S. Forest Service.
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