Falmouth, Massachusetts - Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Teaticket, Massachusetts, West Falmouth, Massachusetts, East Falmouth, Massachusetts (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Teaticket, Massachusetts, West Falmouth, Massachusetts, East Falmouth, Massachusetts, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts Military Reservation, New Silver Beach, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, College Light Opera Company, Falmouth Academy, Falmouth Commodores, Coast Guard Station Woods Hole, Cape Cod Commission, Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth High School, WCIB, Shining Sea Bikeway, Nobska Light, Camp Washburn, Barnstable County Fairgrounds, Menauhant, Massachusetts. Excerpt: Camp Edwards is a United States military training installation which is located in western Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It forms the largest part of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, which also includes Otis Air National Guard Base and Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod. It was named after Major General Clarence Edwards. It is home to the 3rd Battalion, 126th Aviation. In 1931 the National Guard deemed Camp Devens to be too small to meet their needs and began to look for a new training area, and two years later Cape Cod was identified as having a suitable environment to build a new camp. Camp Edwards was officially dedicated in 1938. In 1940, the U.S. Army leased Camp Edwards as a training facility as part of its mobilization strategy for World War II. The Army undertook significant construction which helped to expand Camp Edwards from a rustic military post to a small city, overflowing with new GIs. The new plan called for new capacity to house 30,000 soldiers and was completed in just four months. At the peak of the construction, 30 buildings were completed every day. During the war, the camp functioned as a sending off point for troops as well as a training ground for anti-aircraft units. The camp continued to function this way until the war ended. With the end of the w...