Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, Tennessee, was one of the U.S. Army's largest training bases during World War II. Little remains of the camp today. Founded in 1926 as a 1,040-acre summer training ...

“Camp Forrest was located in Tullahoma, the fifth largest city in Tennessee at the time, it did induction training and also housed prisoners of war, Germans and Italians during WWII.” ...

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The history of internment in Tennessee: Camp Forrest Foundation works to preserve, educate about the state’s past by: Katelyn Quisenberry. Posted: Nov 18, 2024 / 08:40 PM CST.

Camp Forrest in Tullahoma was the first civilian internment camp in the United States, holding around 800 “alien civilians” from January through November 1942.