Fort Gordon (Augusta, Georgia)
Augusta · Georgia · World War II
History & Significance
Fort Gordon is a United States Army installation established southwest of Augusta, Georgia, in October 1941. In July the U.S. War Department approved a contract to construct facilities on the new installation; the cost was estimated to be $24 million.
An official groundbreaking and flag-raising ceremony took place in October. In response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Colonel Herbert W. Schmidt, camp commander, moved his small staff from his temporary office in the Augusta post office building to the unfinished headquarters building at Camp Gordon on 9 December 1941.
The 4th Infantry Division began to establish operations there. The post was home to three divisions during the war: the 4th Infantry, the 26th Infantry, and the 10th Armored.
After undergoing training at Camp Gordon, these units were shipped to the European theater of operations, where they each served with distinction. From October 1943 to January 1945, Camp Gordon served as an internment camp for foreign prisoners of war.
From May 1945 until April 1946 Camp Gordon's U.S. Army Personnel and Separation Center processed nearly 86,000 personnel for discharge from the army. Facing deactivation, two major schools were then brought to Camp Gordon in 1948: The Military Police School and the Signal Corps Training Center.
On March 21, 1956, it was redesignated Fort Gordon. The fort became the Army's communications hub: the Army consolidated all communications training at Fort Gordon on Oct.
1, 1974. In the 21st century, in December 2013, it was announced that Fort Gordon was selected to house the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Command, and the Cyber Center of Excellence as well as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service' Georgia Cryptologic Center.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gordon
- https://home.army.mil/gordon/about/history
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/fort-gordon/
- https://cityofgrovetown.com/251/Fort-Gordon-History
- https://fortwiki.com/Fort_Gordon
- https://www.army.mil/article/192387/history