Tent Cities

ID: 1398 ~ Source: Morrow, Eb Bowles, interviewed by Kari Vanhoozer, June 30, 1997, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
This file appears in: Camp MacArthur

Eb Bowles Morrow describes the tents at Camp MacArthur.

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur

By Amanda Sawyer
Ten weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Waco was chosen as the site for a military training camp. The United States initially lacked the military manpower needed to fight in the war and needed to rapidly increase the…