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Visit the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Visit the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Visit the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Camp Gordon Johnston opened in 1942 for the sole purpose of training Infantry Divisions and their support units in amphibious operations by U. S. Army Engineer Special Brigades [ESB]. This camp trained a quarter of a million men, closing in June of 1946.
When St. Teresa Beach went to war
Visit the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Visit the Camp Gordon Johnston Museum
Amphibious soldiers in Tate's Hell
By: David Brand
Tallahassee Democrat
Many of the American soldiers who went ashore in France on D-Day were trained at Camp Gordon Johnston in Franklin County, Florida.