World War II Demobilization and German POW Processing at Camp Shanks, New York: Archive of 73 Photographs with Extensive Handwritten Captions Documenting “Last Stop U.S.A.” October 1945
Camp Shanks photo archive documenting the final wartime and immediate postwar functions of the conversion of the Army’s largest embarkation camp into a major demobilization and repatriation center, showcasing the internal operations on the Hudson River in October 1945. Camp Shanks in Orangeburg, New York, known as “Last Stop U.S.A.,”.....