Arkansas Postcard Past: Camp Chaffee in 1943 19 minutes ago Ray Hanley Camp Chaffee, 1943: The base was created in 1941 for basic training of soldiers for duty in WWII. It has also housed prisoners of war and many Vietnamese “boat people” who fled their nation in 1975. The card was sent by Pvt. Woodrow Wise to Illinois. “Has Mr.
Powers seen any good movies lately?” It was signed, “So Long, Pvt. Woody.” Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203 Let us read it for you. Listen now.
Your browser does not support the audio element. Camp Chaffee, 1943: The base was created in 1941 for basic training of soldiers for duty in WWII. It has also housed prisoners of war and many Vietnamese “boat people” who fled their nation in 1975. The card was sent by Pvt.
Woodrow Wise to Illinois. “Has Mr. Powers seen any good movies lately?” It was signed, “So Long, Pvt. Woody.”Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203Camp Chaffee, 1943: The base was created in 1941 for basic training of soldiers for duty in WWII.
It has also housed prisoners of war and many Vietnamese “boat people” who fled their nation in 1975. The card was sent by Pvt. Woodrow Wise to Illinois. “Has Mr. Powers seen any good movies lately?” It was signed, “So Long, Pvt.
Woody.” Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203 Ray Hanley Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's "Postcard Past" feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books. Did you mean