Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville Lake Lure Army Air Force Redistribution Rest Camp Camp Mackall, Hoffman Manteo

Naval Air Station Morehead City Naval Station Morris Army Air Field, Charlotte Ocracoke Naval Station Pope Army Air Field, Spring Lake Raleigh-Durham Army Air Field Southport Naval Station Camp Sutton, Monroe

Major Marine Corps training baseinfantry, armor, artillery, and air defense. Amphibious operations a key training mission. Rest camp for returning combat crews. Airborne training center for parachute and glider troops. Carrier fighter aircraft training base. Coordinated ship repair, sailing schedules, anti-submarine defense, and salvage. Air defense and aircraft maintenance base. Anti-submarine patrol base. Adjacent to Fort Bragg. Troop carrier, glider, and fighter base. Air defense base. Conducted ship repairs, sailing schedules, anti-submarine defense, and salvage. Army combat engineer training base.

from North Carolina during World War II on Home Front and Battle Front, 19411945 by Dr. John Duvall (Fayetteville: The World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Committee of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation, 1996, pp. 6768).

WWII Military Installations in North Carolina

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Asheville Important medical facility for wounded seamen. Convalescent Center Basic Training Center #10, Greensboro Bluethenthal Army Air Field, Wilmington Fort Bragg, Fayetteville Army Air Force training base; renamed the Eastern Overseas Replacement Depot in 1944. Army Air Force fighter interceptor base; anti-submarine patrols also flown from the base. Established in 1918 as the Armys principal artillery training post. Field Artillery Replacement Training Center a major World War II mission; beginning in the spring of 1942, Bragg became a focus of Airborne (parachute/glider) training. Largest army post in America during World War II. Infantry training center. 78th Infantry Division and other units trained at Butner. U.S. Army logistics center; Ford Motor Company operated a facility at the depot for the army. Major aviation training and maintenance facility for fighter and bomber aircraft. Outlying fields operated at Atlantic, Bogue Sound, New River, New Bern, Edenton, Washington, Greenville, Pollocksville, and Kinston. U.S. Armys principal anti-aircraft artillery training facility. Major firing range operated at Fort Fisher, 50 miles south. Major aviation maintenance and training facility. Search and rescue and anti-submarine patrols major mission. Aviation training and maintenance base. Operated by long-range anti-submarine patrol using bombers and blimpslighter-thanair craft. Aircraft maintenance and aircraft gunnery training base. Army Air Force communications training base. Troop carrier and glider training base.

Camp Butner Charlotte Quartermaster Depot Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Base, Havelock Camp Davis, Holly Ridge Elizabeth City Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City Naval Air Station Seymour Johnson Army Air Field, Goldsboro Knollwood Army Air Field, Pinhurst Laurinburg-Maxton Army Air Field