Camp Claiborne, LA: The Camp Claiborne News, 1943. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 6.75 inches. 47, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Foldout map with some color located between pages 24 and 25. Cover has some wear and soiling. Rare surviving copy of stated First Printing. Among some of the topics covered are: Prisoners of War, Clairborne-Polk Military Railroad, Women's Army Corps, Officer Candidates, Air Force Cadets, K-9 Corps, Armed Forces Institute, Engineer Unit Training. From the Introduction: We'd like to have you think of Camp Claiborne as a city, the third largest city in Louisiana. We have all the makings including our own laws, police force, traffic lights, laundry, stores, bakery, railroad, gasoline station, water supply system, electric system, local officials, bus lines, restaurants, newspapers, theaters, churches and clubs. ... The purpose of this book is to help newcomers to Claiborne become oriented as rapidly as possible and to facilitate the utilization of the facilities offered here. The site for Camp Claiborne was selected because it was the post potential training area that could be found. Because this area is so well suited to military purposes the Army has built four other important installations with a fifty mile radius> They are, roughly in order of size, Camp Polk, Camp Livingston, Esler Field and Alexandria Air Base. This camp was named for William Charles Cole Claiborne, an early governor of the Orleans Territory and the fir elected governor of Louisiana. At almost any time every branch of the sevice except the Coast Artillery have representatives on duty at Camp Claiborne. More