Camp Sharpe was a World War II

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located on the

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that trained soldiers for

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(e.g., morale operations) in the

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(see Operation Cornflakes
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(CCC) camp NP-2 in McMillan Woods, Camp Sharpe used camp CCC NP-1 and was located "in a muddy hollow at the bottom of a slanting road". A USO facility for Camp Sharpe soldiers was located at the former Hill house on Chambersburg Street in nearby

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. After Camp Sharpe closed in 1944, USO operations were moved sometime around January 1945 to "the recreation center for the guards" of the Gettysburg POW camp. The former camp was used for migrant workers in the summer of 194

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{{Reflist Former training facilities of the United States Army Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania Civilian Conservation Corps camps

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