Memories of Vancouver Barracks

Remembering driving in the barracks

He was a civilian driver at the barracks.

Remembering meeting her husband

Here's her story.

Her dad remembers Gen. Marshall

He served in barracks from 1936 to 1939.

She met troops as a telephone operator

"As we girls arrived to work we would have to pass through the large group of soldiers to our stations. That was accompanied by wolf calls whistles etc. These men had been stationed in the Pacific and elsewhere for up to 3 years and they were thrilled to see “girls from the good old USA."

The view in 1938

"From the wide front porch I used to watch the soldiers training in the woods (where Clark College is today) with their mules."

She was a civilian driver for the Army

"At the age of eighteen, I was one of six or eight women hired to drive Army trucks and staff cars."

She was married in the barracks

"Boy, those bundles of laundry were heavy."

Post card shows message from the past

Uncle sent a post card from Vancouver Barracks while training for deployment in World War II.

Officer spent much of career at Barracks

"Over the 23 years I was assigned to the Post, I explored, marched, trained, studied, maintained, commanded, and even shot .22 rifles in the basement range of the auditorium."