Camp Bowie was a huge World War II training base that was home to the Texas 36th Division and trained many other units, including the Dixie 31st, 4th, and 13th Armored, and 113th Cavalry. It also served as Seventh Headquarters of Special Troops, Fourth Army, and as the place where Gen. Walter Krueger was Commander of the VIII Corps Area Troops. The camp had a capacity of 45,000. Its commanders were Col. K.L. Berry, Gen. C.V. Birkhead, Col. F.E. Bonney, Col. A.G. Brown, and Col. K.F. Hanst. The camp operated from Sept. 1940 to 1946, when 45th Div. was deactivated. It was named for James Bowie, hero of the Alamo siege, 1836.