DO ANY ARMY FOLKS KNOW WHERE CAMP BARKELEY IS?

Those of you that were in the Army, ever heard of Camp Barkeley, Texas? How about Stalag 13 or Camp Andersonville? Well, here is a little incite. Camp Barkeley was a large United States Army training installation during World War II. It was named after David Barkley, a Medal of Honor guy from World War One. A clerical error was made in naming the new base which was built in 1940, before the US entered World War Two. It was somewhat Hush-Hush, to keep the Nazi's confused. It was big, taking up 70,000 acres with an eventual population of 50,000 GI's, located just outside Abilene, Texas. They trained Infantry; Armored Division; Signal Corps and Medical School for Medics. When we got in the War, it then housed 840 German POW's, who were often found sleeping under the baseball bleachers in Abilene. They were Stalag's, but not quite like one of my still favorite rerun TV shows-"Hogan's Hero's". Present day Germans didn't like that show, as Nazi officers were far from being a "Colonel Klink"! That Base was closed at the end of the war and land given back to original owners. This writer has been to Dachau POW near Munich, Germany, and went through the showers that thousands of Jews went through the gas, then burned in giant furnace's. But that is another story. We did want to briefly talk of Camp Andersonville POW that was in Georgia and held 45,000 Americans! At the time of the American Civil War it was considered the worlds worst POW camp. Thirteen Thousand Union soldiers died there, mainly due to starvation and untreated sickness and injuries. For "political" reasons, it is now a National Park called Camp Sumter. Sometimes the truth hurts, but it is the truth, at least from the eyes of this wanna-be historian. Often times, I didn't acknowledge the battles of the Civil War, until I helped historians remove cannon balls from tress near Dalton, Georgia. And in Case you wondered, during World War Two, Utah housed 15,000 German POWs in Utah, one of which was in downtown Salina, in Sevier County, and no, we didn't find they were treated Severe, and perhaps better than the 120,000 of the "Relocation Centers" of Japanese Ancestry, one of which was near Delta called Topaz, with our own government falsely citing they were "military necessity". You may not think so until you interview a man from Nortonville who delivered potatoes to the Camp, or to somebody that was held there, which I have done. First photo is of Salina's Nazi POW Camp; third shows Alma Jones standing on far left with other Medics.