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Watson W. Wise Medical Research Library

Camp Fannin, Texas

Detail from Camp Fannin 50th Anniversary Reunion Poster 1993

Scene from UTHSCT mural depicting Camp Fannin Station Hospital, by Larry Kitchens.
The mural is on display in UTHSCT's Center for Biomedical Research.

The campus of the University of Texas Health Science 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 14,000-acre facility reverting to private property or to the State of Texas as a tuberculosis sanatorium. Hence the Station Hospital area's development as the East Texas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium (sometimes referred to as the East Texas Tuberculosis Sanatorium), East Texas Tuberculosis Hospital, East Texas Chest Hospital, the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, and the University of Texas Health Science 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/Publications/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:

Camp Fannin Association web site -- INACTIVE
Camp Fannin Roll of Honor web site
A Brief History of Tyler and Smith County, Texas

Camp Fannin (The Handbook of Texas Online)
Camp Fannin (Archie P. McDonald, East Texas Historical Association) also at http://leonardo.sfasu.edu/etha/All-Things-Historical-Jul-Sep-2000.html#Sep. 10, 2000
Charles Lee Hill Papers (list of documents at Stephen F. Austin State University)
Former Camp Fannin Web Site
A Salute and Tribute to Dad (Lee Jr. Fisher, Camp Fannin veteran)
Smith County Military Sites (East Texas Genealogical Society)
Tyler-Smith County Historic Landmarks
UT Health Center’s Location Does Not Present a Threat for Lost Munitions (news story)

Other Resources

Camp Fannin Association, P. O. Box 132024, Tyler, TX 75713, 903-533-9232
Camp Fannin display, temporarily in storage
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

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 Science Center at Tyler
Texas Monthly magazine
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Watson W. Wise Medical Research Library
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
11937 US Highway 271
Tyler, TX 75708-3154
Phone: (903)877-2865
Fax: (903)877-8839

Last update: March 25, 2013
Questions/comments to: library@uthct.edu

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