Camp White

Camp White was an Army training base located in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, during World War II.

[1] On December 12, 1941, five days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress appropriated $27 million to transform the Agate Desert into Camp White.

Many of the troops trained at Camp White participated in the Oregon Maneuver combat exercise in the fall of 1943.

[2][3] At its peak, the camp occupied nearly 50,000 acres and contained nearly 40,000 people, making it the second-largest city in Oregon at the time.

The documentary chronicles the stories of the troops that were trained in this "Alcatraz of Boot Camps" and the impact of the military base on the Southern Oregon economy.