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Camp Bowie is a Texas Military Department training center located in west-central Texas on the southern outskirts of Brownwood. Camp Bowie, named in honor of the Texas patriot James Bowie, was a military training facility during World War II, and was the third camp in Texas to be so named.
Camp Bowie is one of four Texas Army National Guard training sites. The cam employs 32 full-time federal and state employees and offers mobilization and unit-training annually for more than 25,000 men.
Camp Bowie, located in Central Texas, was a military training center during World War II. The campsite was one and one half miles south and southwest of the city limits of Brownwood, Texas. During the years of 1940-1946 it grew to be one of the largest training centers in Texas, through which a quarter of a million men passed.
3 kwi 2024 · Camp Bowie was established at Brownwood in September 1940 as an infantry and artillery training center for the Thirty-sixth Infantry Division, Texas National Guard, and was named in honor of the Texas patriot James Bowie. It was the first major defense construction project in Texas in World War II. Following the mobilization of the Army and ...
During WWII, Central Texas held one of the largest military training centers in the state at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas. This camp covered 119,000 acres, and it housed and trained the 36th Texas National Guard Division.
Camp Bowie, located in Central Texas, was a military training center during World War II. The campsite vas one and one half miles south and east of the city limits of Brownwood, Texas. During the years of 1940-1946, it grew to be one of the largest training centers of the state. Approximately a quarter of a million men were processed here.
16 kwi 2023 · Huge World War Two training base, Camp Bowie was a home of the 'Texas' 36th Division and trained many other units, including the 'Dixie' 31st, 4th, and 13th Armored; and 113th Cavalry. (A historical marker located in Brownwood in Brown County, Texas.)
