The Great Lakes Naval Training Station: A History, Illustrated From Photographs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Great Lakes Naval Training Station: A History, Illustrated From Photographs

Tremendously energizing though this spirit was, it could not alone account, however, for Great Lakes be coming the Navy's main source of man-power. The youth of the Middle West might have gone to the sea board for its apprenticeship; Great Lakes might have become only a mere outfitting depot for naval recruits from Illinois and the few surrounding states, instead Of an establishment capable of quartering, feeding. And training as high as men at a time, which was its status late in the summer Of 1918.

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Excerpt from The Great Lakes Naval Training Station: A History, Illustrated From Photographs

Less than a week after the United States entered the World War the youth of the Middle West began to flow into Great Lakes. They came in long trainloads. They came from as far west as Denver and from as far east as Pittsburg; they came from Galveston, Texas.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.