Camp Ashby (site) (Berkeley, California) | Second World War 1939-1945, faculty of law / law school

 Second World War 1939-1945, faculty of law / law school, camp, historical layer / disappeared object

None of the original buildings exist. The polygon outline shows the historical boundaries of Camp Ashby.

"Camp Ashby was established in Early 1942 as part of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation in order to garrison a Military Police battalion. The Site consisted of 12.56 leased and .88 permitted acres acquired from the State of California, the City of Berkeley and the San Francisco Sulphur Company.

"Construction on Camp Ashby started on 18 February 1942, when under the terms of contract W-868-ENG-1635, Daley Brothers of San Francisco built the initial garrison of Theater of Operations type buildings. Due to the simple design of these buildings, the work was completed on 6 March 1942. Water and sewage services were provided to the camp by the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) while natural gas and electrical services were provided by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).

"Constituted in the U.S. Army on 17 May 1942, the 779th Military Police Battalion (Colored)(Zone of the Interior) was activated at Camp Ashby on 1 July 1942. As the official name implies, the 779th was a unit made up of African-American enlisted soldiers. Officers of this unit would have been a mixture of African-Americans and Whites as was the practice in the days of the then segregated U.S. Army. The term “Zone of the Interior” indicated that the unit was organized and equipped for service in the Continental United States where their mission would have been primarily law and order, and physical security missions."

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