Divided back postcard showing soldiers in fron the barracks at Camp Grant, Illinois. This postcard was published by E.C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee, WI. It was postmarked at Rockford, Illinois, and is dated January 10, 1919. Camp Grant, near Rockford, was established in 1917 and became one of the major training facilities during World War I. In October 1940 Camp Grant was re-activated as an induction center and also served as a POW detention center during World War II. The camp was permanently closed in 1946 and many of the buildings had been razed by the late 1940s.
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