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Navy Supply Corps School
A more formal arrangement was achieved when the Naval Finance and Supply School was opened at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in September 1934, for instruction of regular navy supply corps officers. Training of
During World War II (1941-45) 13,000 officers graduated from Navy Supply Corps School, Harvard. In 1944 the Naval Supply Operational Training Center was established at the Naval Supply Depot in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was redesignated the Navy Supply Corps School in 1946, but within a few years it outgrew its facilities. Through the efforts of two Georgia politicians, U.S. senator Richard B. Russell Jr. and U.S. congressman Carl Vinson, the school was moved to Athens in 1954. The NSCS occupies a fifty-eight-acre campus rich in educational heritage. The site had been used as a school since the 1860s, first for the University of Georgia's University High School, then as a Confederate military school, and at the end of the Civil War (1861-65), a Federal garrison. In 1866 the site housed a school for disabled young Confederate veterans, which existed with state support for two years. The University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts used the campus until 1891, when it was purchased to establish the State Normal School,
From 1942 to 1944 the facilities were leased to the U.S. Army, and a special training program was conducted on the site. After World War II
Suggested Readings Frances Taliaferro Thomas, A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County, 2d ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009). Andy Gist, Navy Supply Corps School, Athens Updated 7/17/2009 |
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