25 September 1942 - Camp Pendleton dedicated

[Subdeacon Joe]

25 September 1942 - Camp Pendleton dedicated

 

#OTD in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in honor of World War I MGen Joseph H. Pendleton. The base would become the Corps' largest West Coast expeditionary training facility.

 

Sound off if you have served on Camp Pendleton!!

 

Find out more about Camp Pendleton's history: http://www.pendleton.marines.mil/About/History-and-Museums/

 

Gunnery Sergeant Carl A. Ostrom, USMC, holds the US Flag prior to the flag raising to dedicate Camp Joseph H. Pendleton; President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mary Fay Pendleton, widow of MGen Pendleton, look on. (25 September 1942) By Sgt. Asia Sorenson

 

 

[watab kid]

thats interesting and enlightening , i didnt know 

 

im a little miffed at all the efforts to change names these days