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Description: The Mock-Up: US Naval Amphibious Training Base. Fort Pierce, Florida.
Few Florida communities felt the impact of World War II as much as the Atlantic-coast town of Fort Pierce. With a population that soared along with its economy, the small city made an important contribution to Allied victory by hosting a major military training base. Prior to that, the war had come only as close as the German submarines stalking targets off the southern coast of the peninsula. In 1943, however, the U.S. Navy commissioned its newest amphibious training base in Fort Pierce, and tens of thousands of young men would eventually prepare for combat on the towns sunny shores. The intensive physical and mental training was hardly a day at the beach, and within a few months, Fort Pierce had become a major military post with a national reputation. It also became the training site of some of the most elite units of the armed forces, including the Scouts and Raiders, U.S. Army Rangers, and the legendary frogmen.
Issues of the weekly base newsletter Gator from 1944 and 1945 (and 2 from 1964) and other publications, including The Leatherneck, November 1958 (featuring a photo article about Little Creek training) and monograph The Amphibs: Amphibious Training Command United States Atlantic Fleet (1945), highlighting the training of troops which took part in the "landing fleet, first at Normandy, Southern France, Saipan, and Guam. First at Japan... [A] memento of the Amphibs rehearsing for the D-days"--p. [1]. Includes monograph (undated; published between1983 and 2099) Welcome Aboard : Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, containing a history of the base, with lists and photographs of the ships homeported at Little Creek at time of publication.