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Camp Fannin, Texas
Scene from UTHCT
mural depicting Camp Fannin Station Hospital.
The mural is on display in UTHCT's Center for Biomedical Research.
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The campus of the
University of Texas
Health Center at Tyler is located on the former grounds of the Station
Hospital of Camp Fannin, an Infantry Replacement Training Center opened
by the Army in 1943. In addition to operating as a training base, Camp
Fannin was home to a prisoner of war camp housing mainly German
prisoners
captured in the North African campaign of World War II. The Camp was
subsequently
closed, with various parts of the large facility going to private
property
and to the State of Texas as a tuberculosis sanatorium. Hence the
Station
Hospital area's development as the East Texas Tuberculosis Sanatorium,
East Texas Tuberculosis Hospital,
East
Texas Chest Hospital, and the University of Texas Health Center
at Tyler.
A list of Library
resources
is as
follows::
Books:
- Nazis in the
Pineywoods,
Mark
Choate, Lufkin, TX, Best of East Texas Publishers, 1989
- Camp Fannin, Texas
...
A 50 Year
Perspective, Gordon J. Neilsen for the Camp Fannin Association,
Tyler,
TX, Tyler Press, 1993
- The Lone Star and
the
Swastika: Prisoners
of War in Texas, Richard P. Walker, Austin, TX, Eakin Press, 2001
- Findings: Ordnance
and
Explosive
Waste Archives Search Report for Camp Fannin, Tyler, Texas,
September
1994 (includes: photocopies of pictures of some existing sites of
ordnance
damage; some locational information; maps and surveys; and descriptions
of the types of weapons and ordnance in use at Camp Fannin)
- Replacement &
School Command,
Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, 1946
- Branch Immaterial
Replacement Training
Center: Camp Fannin, Texas & Camp Robinson, Arkansas: The Story of
Training in Photographs (located in Original Documents folder)
- Handbook of
Information, Branch Immaterial
Replacement Training Center, Camp Fannin, Texas, 1943 (located in
Original
Documents folder; also at http://www.campfannin.com/AboutUs/Handbook/handbook.htm
Archives:
- History & Memoirs
- Maps & Guides
(includes driving
tour of Camp Fannin on existing roads)
- News, Reunions &
Veterans
- Ordnance &
Artifacts
- Original Documents
- Pictures (buildings
and a
few personnel)
- AV Archives (includes
video of M-3 Lee
tanks found at Camp Fannin in 1987 and lost in 1991, plus film clips of
Camp Fannin personnel during WW II)
Related Materials:
- An Oriental View of
American Civilization
(book from Camp Fannin Station Hospital Library)
- Medical Department
Soldier's Handbook,
War Department Technical Manual TM 8-220, March 5, 1941 (used at Camp
Fannin)
Web Sites:
Other Resources
- Camp Fannin
Association,
P. O.
Box 132024, Tyler, TX 75713, 903-533-9232
- Camp Fannin
display, 1st Floor, A Building, between main lobby and cafeteria,
The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
- Camp Fannin - A
Trainee's Memoir,
by Elmer T. Horne.
Located
in World
War II Collection MS-2012, Folder 48.
University Archives
and Special Collections
Hoskins
Library
The
University
of Tennessee
Cumberland Ave.
at 15th St.
Knoxville, TN
37996-4000
Phone:
(423)974-4480
Fax:
(423)974-0560
E-mail:
special
@aztec.lib.utk.edu- Board
of Control, RG
303, AC 1991/16,
1916-1979 (bulk 1935-1953), 83.05 cubic feet.
Records transferred from the
Texas
State Purchasing and General Services Commission to the State Archives
Oct. 10, 1990.
Box 1991/16-62, Camp
Fannin-East
Texas Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Camp
Fannin,
1947
East
Texas Tuberculosis
Sanatorium, 1948-1949
Camp
Fannin,
cold storage plant, 1947-1948
Box 1991/16-63, Camp
Fannin-East
Texas Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Camp
Fannin,
interim period, 1947-1948
Camp
Fannin,
inventory, 1949
Camp
Fannin,
1947
Camp
Fannin deed,
signed copy, 1948 and plat maps
Camp
Fannin,
1948 (plat maps)
East
Texas Tuberculosis
Sanatorium, 1949- Camp
Fannin Files,
Tyler Public Library
- U.S. Postal Center
Camp
Fannin Conference Room
12621 FM 3311
East Texas Center, TX 75708
903-324-3000- Smith County
Historical Society Museum
Many thanks to those
who have
provided resources for the Camp Fannin Archives, including:
- John
Anderson, Camp
Fannin Association
- Dale
Hawbaker
- Elmer
T. Horne, Jr.,
Camp Fannin Association
- Archie
P. McDonald,
Stephen F. Austin State University and East Texas Historical
Association
- Office
of Institutional
Advancement, The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
- Texas
Monthly magazine
- U.S.
Army Corps of
Engineers
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Watson
W. Wise Medical Research Library
The
University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
11937
US Highway 271
Tyler,
TX 75708-3154
Phone:
(903)877-2865
Fax:
(903)877-2221
Last update:February
6, 2007
Questions/comments
to:library@uthct.edu
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