Huckstep

Camp Huckstep is a large military base in Egypt, bordering Cairo International Airport on the east.

[1] In 1943, the camp was the largest military supply depot in the Middle East, including among other things an 1100-bed hospital and a US-run radio station.

[3] When Russell Benjamin Huckstep (a US soldier born in 1906 in Iowa) was killed in a plane crash over North Africa in 1943, the camp was renamed after him.

A company of the Women's Army Corps arrived at Camp Huckstep on 16 June 1944 and was assigned to the Middle East Service Command.

It has been used for many prisoners, including Communists, Muslim Brotherhood members, and others, such as Palestinian writer Mohamed Ali Eltaher.