Operator United States Army Built May 1944 (1944-05) Demolished 1947 | Open to
the public Yes Event World War II | |
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Type Training facility
POW Camp Built by War Manpower Commission Fate Removed and land absorbed into the Gettysburg NMP Occupant Psychological Warfare Division Owners United States Department of Defense, National Park Service | ||
The psycho boys of camp sharpe by dr beverley eddy
Camp Sharpe was a World War II military installation on the Gettysburg Battlefield that trained soldiers for psychological operations (e.g., morale operations) in the European Theater of Operations (see Operation Cornflakes & Frontpost newspaper). Adjacent to Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp NP-2 in McMillan Woods, Camp Sharpe used camp CCC NP-1 and was located "in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road". A USO facility for Camp Sharpe soldiers was at the former Hill house on Chambersburg Street in nearby Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
After Camp Sharpe closed in 1944, USO operations were moved c. January 1945 to "the recreation center for the guards" of the Gettysburg POW camp. The former camp was used for migrant workers in the summer of 1945.[1]