BASIC TRAINING

CAMP CROFT, SC

(PHOTO COLLECTION OF MALCOLM HERSEY PROUTY)

AUGUST - NOVEMBER 1941

GENTLEMEN,

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE ?

CAMP CROFT HAD ONE OF THE LARGEST RIFLE RANGES OF ALL THE

TRAINING CAMPS.

BARRACKS BUDDIES

MALCOLM WROTE ON THE BACK OF THIS CARD:

" THIS IS WHERE I LIKE TO EAT AND HATE TO HAVE K.P "

BASIC DONE, ON TO FORT JACKSON, THE

121ST INFANTRY REGIMENT AND

MORE TRAINING.