sentences:  It is credited with training over 200,000 U.S. soldiers, sometimes as many as 40,000 at one given time.Originally planned as a U.S. Army Air Corps station, Camp Fannin was constructed in the spring of 1943, the camp was named for Col. James Walker Fannin, a Texas Revolutionary War hero, who died at Goliad.The original plan moved to Pounds Army Air Field (now Tyler Pounds Regional Airport.)