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types and dimensions of WWII camp/base buildings


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No luck determining what our building is yet. I do have a copy of TM 5-280 on the way though. Here is a question. Any clue if there was a TM or some sort of document that showed all the 700 series buildings like the 800 series TM?

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  • 11 months later...

Just a wild guess, but an "exchange garden" could be an area outside of an exchange where troops could smoke and drink.

 

It was not uncommon in the early 20th Century to refer to small restaurants as "beer gardens" after the German custom.

 

Great resource that you found, by the way.

 

Here is a photo of the exchange / beer garden that Gil refers to.

The blue outline shows the "garden" attached to the PX

The red outline shows the barracks that I lived in during Basic Training

 

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It's been awhile since I made this post but I managed to get a copy of the TM 5-280 awhile back. I was curious though, this was dated 1944 and the only version I could find. Does anyone know where the building blueprints came from early in the war? 1941? 1942?

 

Mike

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Mike---

 

I believe you and I are both searching for a copy of TM 5-280 (November 1942). I have an interest in buildings erected at a POW camp in early 1943. The plans found in the 1944 publication differ. I am looking for Series 700 plans.

 

---Mike

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