US Army training center during World War II
Camp Bouse was a secret camp of the US Army, Desert Training Center in Mohave County, Arizona. Camp Bouse is located from Bouse, Arizona, just north of Arizona State Route 72 and about north of Interstate 10.
History.
Camp Bouse was built in August 1943 by the 369th Engineer Battalion. Camp Bouse was home to a secret program to see if a very bright arc lamp could be used to temporarily blind the enemy in battle at night. The Desert Training Center was built to prepare troops to do battle in North Africa to fight the Nazis during World War II. When completed the camp had shower buildings, latrines, wooden tent frames, and a 500,000 gallon water reservoir. The top secret weapon was a 13 million candlepower carbon arc lamp mounted on US Medium Tank M3 Canal Defence Light (CDL). Six Tank Battalions were selected for the project. The troops at the camp were not allowed to talk about their activities with those not in the camp program. In the end, it was decided that bright light would too quickly give away the M3 tank's position and that antitank rounds would hit the M3 tanks quickly. Troops that worked with the new secret weapon CDL at Camp Bouse were from the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion, the 554th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company, the 9th Tank Group and the 701st. Other units that trained at Camp Bouse were: the 701st Tank Battalion, 736th Tank Battalion, 738th Tank Battalion, 739th Tank Battalion, 740th Tank Battalion and the 748th Tank Battalion (nicknamed "The Rhinos").
Historic site markers.
Marker at the Monument Row site reads: 
Marker #86 at the site reads:
Marker #90 at the site reads:
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Marker #155 at the site reads:
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Historic structures pictured.
The following are the images of the historic structures in Bouse and its surrounding areas:
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