Felicity CA Camp Pilot Knob detail (satellite D)

To give some sense of scale, a closeup of a remaining visible section of the camp near a contemporary home. Given that the ‘accommodations’ were wood frame tents, and given that in basic training during the war each tent would have house multiple men, it’s likely that there were 400-600 trainees in tents in the spaces north of what is now a contemporary house and out building.

The only pictures that I could find of life at Camp Pilot Knob were what appears to be personal pictures taken by a soldier (link below). If you go a couple of pictures either side of the soldier depicted in the linked photo, you can get at least a little sense of what training in the desert was like during WWII.

Camp photos: www.337thinfantry.net/DelmarDeSmidtPhotos/arocamppilotknob.html