A Sea of Canvas

ID: 616 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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The tent city campsite stretched across 1,377 acres and housed a total of approximately thirty-five thousand men from all over the country between 1917 and 1919.

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Camp MacArthur

By Amanda Sawyer

Ten weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Waco was chosen as the site for a military training camp. The United States initially lacked the military manpower needed to fight in the war and needed to rapidly increase the…