Vanessa M.’s Reviews > Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II > Status Update

She mentions Operation Paperclip--a topic I'd like to delve into further.

I'm at the section where Ms. Driver Eddy writes about Camp Sharpe. There was a wonderful presentation given by the author at The USAHEC back in 2016 on Camp Sharpe ("The Psycho Boys of Camp Sharpe") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQbk...

from pages 201-202: "The creation of an ancillary camp was not unique to Camp Ritchie. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) camp at Catoctin Mountain Park expanded onto the adjacent grounds of an abandoned Conservation Construction Corps (CCC) camp known as area B-5, while PO Box 1142 created an ancillary camp some 120 miles to the north at an old CCC camp in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, Pennsylvania."

from page 31:
"Cheer up friend, the war is young yet
Maybe there will be a chance
When the Second Front is opened
And you do your stuff in France.

Just sit tight and count your blessings;
Maybe Ritchie will burn down,
And you'll join the Great Invasion
Far away from Hagerstown."

--"Ritchie-Bitchie" (anonymous)

Just finished chapter 7....extraordinary. I'd like to read more about Po Box 1142, MIRS, and GMDS. I'd like to visit the Ritchie History Museum and take note if coverage of this time in Camp Ritchie's history is on display.