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Originally Posted by
bigduke6
Hasn't changed much
I felt certain... I've been there many times since. Many, many... The Camp Crowfoot buildings were old Butler huts, had been POW buildings during WW2. German
of course, out there. What shitty accomodations, even for a field camp. Like the old buildings in Yakima firing range...or the quonsets of Margarita or Pulgas in Pendleton.
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08-25-2018 04:12 PM
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All brick huts now Jim, but I guess built on the same site of the old huts, still an isolated camp if ever there was one, I can see why it made a good POW camp. The bar etc was closed when we there so we had to walk down to the main road and cross over to the other side of the camp (can't remember the name) to get a beer, other nights went down to Rolsten to the Gym....... did Med Hat a few times...........
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Originally Posted by
bigduke6
the other side of the camp
Was just named "CFB Suffield"... Yes, did that many times too. We had one of your brick huts built in Wainwright so I can imagine. They must have been nice when built. The old Assiniboine hotel was the big dive back then downtown, seems to still be there but doesn't look healthy. There used to be a giant gun barrel lying by the rail siding down at the camp that had rolled off a rail car during the last war and was too big to move. Eventually money got the best of someone and it was cut up and disposed of. It was huge, apparently a naval gun being shipped or delivered... That was where we did our nuke testing...
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