Camp Adair

Camp Adair: Adair Village, Oregon

Albany Regional Museum

Albany, Oregon

http://www.armuseum.com/http://home.teleport.com/~eewilson/campadair.html

http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org/exhibitions/Camp_Adair/index.cfm

Entrance and Map of Camp Adair

Population

• At the time of Camp Adair’s biggest impact, Corvallis had a population of 14,000 people. Camp Adair became Oregon’s second largest city; only Portland was larger.

• From 1942-1944, over 100,000 soldiers trained for combat at Camp Adair.

• About 34,000 of those soldiers trained with infantry divisions.

Life in the Barracks

Dress Uniform and Combat Gear

After WWll

• July 1944, Camp Adair was abandoned as soldiers left.

• The US Army turned the hospital over to the US Navy, where the Navy brought wounded men for treatment. It was enlarged to treat approx. 36,000 patients.

• Part of Camp Adair Served as a POW camp for Italians and then Germans. A memoir of Sgt Willi Gross, a POW of Germany is housed in the museum.

Memorabilia From WWll