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Fort George G. Meade: The First 100 Years

You may know Fort George G. Meade as a cyber and intelligence hub, but did you know that the installation used to be the home of Army Tank School after World War I? Or that it housed an internment camp at the start of World War II for primarily German-American and Italian-American citizens and foreign nationals? Learn more about the fascinating history of the third largest Army base in the U.S. in terms of number of workforce in this book.

You may know Fort George G. Meade as a cyber and intelligence hub, but did you know that the installation used to be the home of Army Tank School after World War I? Or that it housed an internment camp at the start of World War II for primarily German-American and Italian-American citizens and foreign nationals? Learn more about the fascinating history of the third largest Army base in the U.S. in terms of number of workforce in this book.

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SOURCES<br />

• “History of Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, Maryland,” Commanding General, Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, to Adjutant General of the Army, Sept.<br />

12, 1919, Entry 310, RG165, National Archives, College Park, Maryland<br />

• Steven Ujifusa, A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States<br />

(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 65–67.<br />

311<br />

Eisenhower at Camp <strong>Meade</strong> (pg. 96)<br />

Originally published in the Laurel Leader, Feb. 22, 2017, History Matters, info@theleonardgroupinc.com. Included in<br />

this book courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Media Group.<br />

Paving <strong>The</strong> Way For <strong>The</strong> Interstate (Pg. 101)<br />

• Eisenhower’s Army Convoy Notes Nov. 3, 1919; Daily Log of the <strong>First</strong> Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Washington<br />

D. C. To San Francisco, Cal. July 7th to Sept 6, 1919<br />

• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home website<br />

• Report, “Principal Facts Concerning the <strong>First</strong> Transcontinental Army Motor Transport Expedition, Washington to<br />

San Francisco, July 7 to Sept. 6, 1919.”<br />

• Photos curtesy of the Eisenhower Presidential Library collection<br />

Excerpts From A Tanker’s Story (Pg. 105)<br />

• A handwritten, unidentified letter part of the <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Meade</strong> Museum collection<br />

Roles for Women Grow (Pg. 109)<br />

• United States House of Representatives n.d., Treadwell 1954, 17v and National Women’s Hall of Fame, 2017<br />

Leonard Wood To <strong>Meade</strong> (Pg. 113)<br />

• Record Group No. 338 Box 1, File No. 314.7, Historical Report for <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>, MD 1938, 1939, 1940 at<br />

NARA Booklet, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>.<br />

• Tank School, 1930, Published by the Tank School, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>, MD c 1930<br />

• <strong>The</strong> Defender, Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, 1923, yearbook of the CMTC, Military Training Camps Association, Chicago, 1923.<br />

<strong>Meade</strong> Prisoners Of War (Pg. 133)<br />

• Originally published in the Laurel Leader, Apr. 7, 2016, History Matters, info@theleonardgroupinc.com. Included in<br />

this book courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Media Group.<br />

When Amore’ Freed <strong>The</strong> POW (pg. 139)<br />

• “Fifty <strong>Years</strong> Ago, <strong>The</strong>y Had Nothing: Prisoners of War,” Rafael Alverez, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 21,1993.<br />

• “Baltimore’s Little Italy,” Suzanna Rosa Molino, <strong>The</strong> History Press, 2015.<br />

Women Join <strong>The</strong> Fight (Pg. 141)<br />

• Treadwell 1954, 12, Morden 2000, 95.<br />

<strong>The</strong> National Security Agency (Pg. 149)<br />

• National Security Agency: 60 <strong>Years</strong> of Defending our Nation, https://www.nsa.gov/about/<br />

• cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/nsa-60th/assets/files/NSA-60th-Anniversary.pdf<br />

• American Cryptology During the Cold War https://www. nsa.gov

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