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Camp Swift, Texas
Camp Swift is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,383 at the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Camp Swift CDP, Texas )〕 Camp Swift began as a United States Army training base built in 1942. It is named after Major General Eben Swift.
==History==
The Army signed a $25 million contract in January 1942 to build a training camp on 56,000 acres north of Bastrop, Texas. The contract stipulated the project was to be completed in 108 working days. 2700 buildings were built during World War II, but none of those remain on the site today. At the end of the war, they were sold or donated and relocated.
In mid-1943 German prisoners of war began arriving and were housed in a stockade designed for 3000 prisoners. The 10th Mountain Division trained at Camp Swift in 1944. The 2nd Infantry Division trained there mid 1945 to early 1946. The camp also trained nurses under battlefield conditions. The camp housed about 44,000 soldiers at its peak and some 300,000 soldiers trained there before the war ended.
Camp Swift is currently owned by the Texas Army National Guard and acts as a training center for the Guard, active armed forces, law enforcement, high school ROTC and the Civil Air Patrol. The camp is also the primary emergency staging area for Central Texas.
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