From Wikipedia.
I have been writing about the Plattsburgh (New York) Barracks for the past week in my War of 1812 blog, Not So Forgotten. The barracks and town served as the site of the war's Battle of Plattsburgh/Battle of Lake Champlain.
The base saw use during World War II.
In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the barracks hosted the massive U.S. Army maneuvers which was a huge pre-war training operation involving aircraft, tanks and about 20,000 troops.
It was last used as offices and then apartments for personnel at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base into the late 1950s.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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