Veterans Day: November 11, 2020. To those in uniform serving today and to those who have served in the past, we honor you today and every day.
In valor there is hope ‒ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"In July 1942, the Army Air Forces opened a Basic Training Center in St. Petersburg... To house thousands of trainees, seventy area hotels were leased by the War Department... By February 1943, at the peak of the Army's occupation, the city's hotels were full. There was an urgent need for additional training facilities, so a decision was made to erect a tent city on the Jungle golf course to handle 10,000 recruits... In early February 1943, hundreds of tents went up on the former golf course and Piper-Fuller Airfield, each tent equipped for five or six men. A large portion of the Azalea neighborhood of today was covered in canvas."
‒ Jungle Country Club History Project
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| Row of tents on the Jungle golf course. St. Petersburg Times Feb 24, 1943. |
