80 Buildings Going Up Here
Theater-Of-Operations Type; Will
house 1,300
The potential training capacity of Camp Atterbury is being increased by construction in Block 8 of approximately 80 buildings, of the theater-of-operations type, providing housing for about 1,300 troops, it has been revealed by Capt. Gordon Iddles, assistant area engineer.

The character of the units to occupy the structures is not known but the buildings, which include barracks and mess halls, are similar to those already built north of the post hospital.  Construction is lighter than regular Camp Atterbury buildings, and all sanitary and bathing facilities are in separate latrine buildings.  The buildings are designed to simulate actual conditions found in war zones.

Hospital Being Painted

Meanwhile, the 40 buildings that comprise the post hospital are receiving a beauty treatment, being covered with coats of cream-toned water-proofing paint.

Work of giving Camp Atterbury a carpet of grass is going forward in many parts of the cantonment area, with dozens of tractors and harrows brealing up the soil and with men sowing the seed.  The work, which is for preventing soil erosion, is being done by William H. Diddle of Indianapolis, well-known through the Middle-West as a landscape architect and builder of golf courses.

Source: Atterbury Crier, October 02, 1942 (2nd issue)
Page last revised 11/19/2009
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