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<p>Guide map of Fort Slocum, Davids Island, prepared for the Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers Training School in 1943.</p>

ACTCOTS Guide Map Ft Slocum 1943
<p>&#34;Keep &#39;Em Moving:&#34; a slogan of the Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers Training School, at Fort Slocum 1942-1944.</p>

ACTCOTS logo B&W
<p>Since the Army remained segregated until 1947, black soldiers attending the Bakers and Cooks School at Fort Slocum, shown here in 1941, attended classes separate from their white counterparts.</p>

AfAm Cooks & Bakers School apr 1941 butchering
<p>Baking pies in the Army Bakers and Cooks School, which operated at Fort Slocum during the 1930s.</p>

baking pies
<p>Building 68, then designated as Building 52, originally a barracks, was the main building of the Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers Training School, 1942-1944.</p>

bldg 52 ACTCOTS from Casual News
<p>Col. Bernard Lentz, Fort Slocum&#39;s commanding officer 1942-1945, reviewing a platoon of the Women&#39;s Army Corps on the Parade Ground during the Second World War.</p>

Col Lentz takes salute WACs
<p>An Italian Service Unit comprised of prisoners of war was assigned to Fort Slocum in 1944 to provide labor in support of the post&#39;s wartime activities.</p>

Italian POWs moving crates
<p>The Wacs and male soldiers of Fort Slocum&#39;s motor pool during the Second World War.</p>

Motor pool men & women on vehicles
<p>Wacs at Fort Slocum formed a basketball team and played against teams from other posts during the Second World War.</p>

WAC basketball team
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