Amphibious Training Base
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Amphibious Training Base This Nation's first naval amphibious training base was established here at Solomons where between 1942 and 1945 some 68,000 sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and soldiers were trained. They formed the major components of amphibious forces which landed at Guadalcanal, North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.
Ironically, some of those trained here at Solomons, Maryland participated in the landings in the Solomons Islands in the Pacific. Board of County Commissioners Calvert County Historical Society and Maryland Historical Society
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