Description: Camp Tyson, Tennessee, Images of America, Paperback In 1941, Paris, Tennessee, became the home of Camp Tyson. The 2,000-acre camp named for Knoxville World War I veteran Brig. Gen. Lawrence Tyson was built by some 800 laborers and consisted of 450 buildings including barracks, a hospital, and a theater. Over the course of World War II, the camp grew to about 6,000 acres in size and served as a training ground for as many as 25,000 servicemen, as well as a POW camp for many Germans and Italian prisoners. At Camp Tyson, soldiers trained to construct, maintain, and operate barrage balloons. These balloons were successfully used to provide anti-aircraft protection during World War I and again in World War II with the help of those trained in Henry County. However, the atomic bomb made barrage balloons obsolete, and after the war, Camp Tyson was decommissioned.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467124270
Book Title: Camp Tyson
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Shannon McFarlin
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / United States, United States / South / East South Central (Al, Ky, ms, Tn), Military / Pictorial
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Travel, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
