W.A. Scott III and Leon Bass at Camp McCain, Mississippi

ID: 522 ~ Source: M. Alexis Scott ~ Creator: Photo taken with Scott’s personal 2 ¼ x 3 ¼ miniature Speed Graphic. ~ Date: Spring 1944
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Timed photo by William A. Scott with Leon Bass during basic training at Camp McCain (Grenada, MS) spring of 1944 with 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 8th Corps of General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army.

This file appears in: Training in Mississippi

By W.A. Scott III
"They changed the program, and we were sent to organize an engineer combat battalion in Mississippi, and that's really how I ended up, you might say, going into the phase that I did. But when I got into this engineer combat battalion, we had a…