{"id":1645,"date":"2023-07-27T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/?page_id=1645"},"modified":"2024-02-10T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:25:03","slug":"2010-02-08-camp-bouse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/2010-02-08-camp-bouse\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 02 08 Camp Bouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-divider{--divider-border-style:none;--divider-border-width:1px;--divider-color:#0c0d0e;--divider-icon-size:20px;--divider-element-spacing:10px;--divider-pattern-height:24px;--divider-pattern-size:20px;--divider-pattern-url:none;--divider-pattern-repeat:repeat-x}.elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider{display:flex}.elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider__text{font-size:15px;line-height:1;max-width:95%}.elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider__element{margin:0 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.elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2>World War II: Camp Bouse<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-google_maps .elementor-widget-container{overflow:hidden}.elementor-widget-google_maps .elementor-custom-embed{line-height:0}.elementor-widget-google_maps iframe{height:300px}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=34.031007%2C%20-113.734817&#038;t=m&#038;z=10&#038;output=embed&#038;iwloc=near\"\n\t\t\t\t\ttitle=\"34.031007, -113.734817\"\n\t\t\t\t\taria-label=\"34.031007, -113.734817\"\n\t\t\t><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Marker:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>Camp Bouse<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Location:<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>Butler Valley<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>La Paz County, Arizona<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #5b72dc; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/Camp+Bouse%E2%80%8B+training+center\/@34.0264007,-113.7337444,15z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">34.031007, -113.734817<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Historical Significance:<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">In 1943, General George Patton established Camp Bouse as the top-secret site for training over 5,500 carefully screened and qualified volunteers. These soldiers were trained to use a highly secret weapon called the &#8220;Canal Defense Light.&#8221; This was dubbed the &#8220;Gizmo&#8221; by the soldiers who operated it. These tanks had modified turrets, carried a 13\u2011million candlepower searchlight that passed through a narrow slot, using shutters that opened and closed 6x\/second. The tanks were designed to light up battlefields for nighttime frontal assaults. The flickering lights made it difficult for the enemy to see. Ultimately, it was felt that the lights could give the tank&#8217;s position away and make it an easy target for the enemy&#8217;s powerful anti-tank guns &#8211; so it was abandoned in 1944.<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">In August 1943, the 369th Engineer Battalion began constructing Camp Bouse. Among other features, a well was dug and water lines laid, concrete pads and sidewalks for the hospital and headquarters were poured, numerous roads and tent areas were graded, and a 500,000-gallon reservoir built. Camp Bouse was closed in April 1944. The men serving in the camp were transferred to Ft.&nbsp;Knox, Kentucky, and then to Kilmer, New&nbsp;Jersey. They were eventually sent to England for further combat training.<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Dedicated:<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">February 13, 2010<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Sponsor:<br \/><\/strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #5b72dc; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonadar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona State Society DAR<br \/><\/a><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br \/>Rededicated:<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">February 8, 2020 [unconfirmed]<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Sponsor:<br \/><\/strong><a style=\"color: #5b72bc;\" href=\"http:\/\/arizonadar.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona State Society DAR<\/a><\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-camp-bouse.jpg\" alt=\"A snapshot of the marker. The marker information is included in the body of this page.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-camp-bouse.jpg 368w, https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-camp-bouse-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><figcaption>Site of Camp Bouse marker, March 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-setting-camp-bouse.jpg\" alt=\"A snapshot that shows the marker placement near an armored vehicle.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-setting-camp-bouse.jpg 441w, https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2010-02-08-marker-setting-camp-bouse-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption>Marker, undated image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War II: Camp Bouse Marker:\u00a0\u00a0Camp BouseLocation:Butler ValleyLa Paz County, Arizona34.031007, -113.734817 Historical Significance:In 1943, General George Patton established Camp Bouse as the top-secret site for training over 5,500 carefully screened and qualified volunteers. 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