Fort AP Hill offering walking tours of The Trap this Saturday

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Mr. Hall was told that there was an original Garrett graveyard still on AP Hill, but no one was allowed to go there because the area might have unexploded shells. This was back in the 1960s, I believe. I questioned why they would fire on an area containing a graveyard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad6jhB6P3Vw This is a nostalgic video/oral history on the various families and villages that had their lives disrupted when the U.S. Army came to town. I have seen a similar book, but don't remember where. It reminded me of what went on in my area when thousands of acres, homes, villages, churches, etc. were turned over to the government to create Andrews Field (now Joint Base Andrews) at the beginning of WWII.

I never knew that the Fort/Camp A.P. Hill was used in 1942 as the staging area for the headquarters and corps troops of Gen. George Patton's Task Force A, which later became part of the Allied invasion of French North Africa.