FREE: 1944 US Cover Sent to Farragut Idaho Camp Scott

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Cover with Two Letters 1944, April1st
n June of 1942 over 40,000 men joined the navy. Numbers like this made it a necessity for more training facilities and in March of 1942 the news that Lake Pend Oreille had been chosen was released. The Walter Butler Company of St. Paul, Minnesota was chosen to construct the station.

In May of 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the new site in Idaho Farragut after the famous Union Admiral David G. Farragut. It was Admiral Farragut who said during the raid of Mobile Bay, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."

The training station was to have six training units designed for 5,000 men. After a unit was completed the training started while the next unit was under construction. The station also had a school area designed for 5,000 personnel. The hospital eventually had 2,000 beds dedicated to caring for the Farragut trainees and staff. A housing project for 300 Navy families was built; there were also five dormitories, officer's quarters, an auditorium, a recreational building, and two chapels on the base. Add to this the auxiliary buildings necessary to maintain a station of over 30,000 people and it is easy to see why Farragut was Idaho's largest town.