Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA) (Dublin, California)

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"Camp Parks, designated Parks Reserve Forces Training Area in 1980, is named after Rear Admiral Charles W. Parks, CEC, USN. It was built a Navy Base during World War II, and was commissioned Jan. 19, 1943 -- home to the Navy Seabees. Adjacent Camp Parks to the east, laid Camp Shoemaker and the U.S. Naval Hospital Shoemaker, also built during the war. The three Navy bases laying side by side were called "Fleet City." In 1946, at the end of World War II, the Secretary of the Navy disestablished the three facilities, and from 1946 to 1951, the Navy leased the land to the County of Alameda for use as a rehabilitation center. In 1947 the Santa Rita County Jail became operational."

Read more here: www.militarymuseum.org/CpParks.html
www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-parks.htm
www.bunnweb.org/histdect/7-28-05.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_Reserve_Forces_Training_Area
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Coordinates:   37°43'45"N   121°53'47"W
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