Fort Custer in the World Wars Political History by Leila Tarazi Fawaz

by Leila Tarazi Fawaz

as families try to cope with unfathomable losses

Throughout the pages of this newly-revised book on the First World War

A doctor appeals to the public for information about her past and receives a single response

Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker

Fort Custer in the World Wars Political History by Leila Tarazi FawazDescription By Brenda Glover Leyndyke Paperback The April 1917 declaration of war on Germany hastened the need for US training camps. Camp Custer, named for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, was established on July 18, 1917. Thousands of soldiers were inducted at Camp Custer, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers would start their military training at Camp and later Fort Custer, which became a permanent base in 1940. Images from Camp and Fort Custer