1942: Dates and dances with off-duty soldiers at Fort Bragg
 

1942: Dates and dances with off-duty soldiers at Fort Bragg
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Named for **rth Carolinian Confederate general Braxton Bragg, the US military base of Fort Bragg was established just before the end of World War I, and slowly grew to become a major center for artillery training and testing.

By the summer of 1940, some 5,400 soldiers were stationed at the sprawling installation. With the passage of the Selective Service Act and the imminent threat of World War II, the population of the base ballooned to 67,000 troops in just a year.

Fort Bragg became the training center for some of the first airborne divisions, and continued to receive tens of thousands of new inductees throughout the war. Read more...

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