This is the history of the World War One Training Camp located on the edge of tiny Deming, N.
The other, "Trinity Site," detai.
One, "Pocketful of Rockets," tells the history and story behind the missile range.
On retirement in 2007 he wrote two books about White Sands.
For 30 years his job gave him the opportunity to leave his desk and discover the 3, 200-square-mile range. in 1977 as a member of the Public Affairs Office at White Sands Missile Range.
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He arrived in Las Cruces, N.
About the Author: Jim Eckles is a native of Nebraska.
In the end, Deming was a changed town - more Midwestern than similar communities in southern New Mexico.
Deming was able to save the Army hospital at the Camp and turn it into a sanatorium for sufferers of tuberculosis.
After the war, the Camp disappeared almost as fast as it appeared.
Others, who had experience in the trenches of France, thought the Camp was just dandy.
They complained bitterly about the blowing sand - the division did go on to take on the nickname "Sandstorm Division." Meanwhile, a Minnesota congressman called Camp Cody the gateway to Hades.
Many leaders from the states with National Guard units at Camp Cody were unhappy with the quality of the camp.
Nebraskan, Major John Birkner ended up drummed out of the Army and tried for treason for expressing his opinions about the war.
Jack Yellen, the local rep for the Jewish Welfare Board, helped entertain troops and turned out to be the camp\'s answer to Irving Berlin.
For instance, the National League Chicago Cubs played an exhibition game at the Camp against a team of soldiers.
In the book, many stories are highlighted.
Imagine waves of khaki-clad men descending on Deming on a Saturday night.
The temporary Training Camp covered the desert with hundreds of tents and crude wooden structures.
Eventually draftees were needed to build the 34th Division to 30, 000 men.
Originally, the Camp drew men from the National Guard units of Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, North and South Dakota.
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This is the history of the World War One Training Camp located on the edge of tiny Deming, N
