University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. Ephemera Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. (WWII) 2020 Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. - Camp Gruber, Oklahoma Denis Mailhot MPS Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wilfrid-mailhot-ephemera Recommended Citation Mailhot, Denis MPS, "Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. - Camp Gruber, Oklahoma" (2020). Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. Ephemera. 5. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wilfrid-mailhot-ephemera/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. (WWII) at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wilfrid S. Mailhot, Jr. Ephemera by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wilfrid S. Mai{liot, Jr. "Cani_p §ruher, Ok[alionia" The outbreak of the Second World War in Europe in September 1939 prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to declare a limited national emergency on September 8 and step up military preparedness efforts. By June 1940 Congressional measures had augmented the federal budget for construction of arms and munitions plants, coastal defenses , and military training camps and expansion of existing bases . In 1939 the nation's armed forces numbered only 200,000, but plans for a six-million-man army had been made. Camp Gruber is an Oklahoma Army National Guard (OKARNG) training facility 2 used for Training of OKARNG soldiers . It covers a total of 87 square miles (230 km ). The base is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber , a noted artillery officer and the original composer of the U.S. Field Artillery March, the source for the Army's official song, "The Army Goes Rolling Along". Camp Gruber is located near Braggs, Oklahoma in the Cookson Hills, about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Muskogee, Oklahoma. f2lf3l .