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- Camp Rice
- (Rice Divisional
Camp)
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- Probably the least know of the several
camps that made up the California Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA).
What is known is that the 5th Armored Division was housed there
while training at CAMA and that there was a large quartermaster
depot there. In 1944 Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the
"Manhattan (Atomic Bomb) Project" visited the town
Rice and examined the nearby Tularosa Basin as a possible site
for the testing of the first atomic devices. Oppenheimer subsequently
chose the White Sands area of New Mexico.
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- Source: World War II Sites in
the United States: A Tour Guide and Directory by Richard E. Osbourne
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