Most of the Army's 231 training camps were located in the South, which was mostly rural and where land was cheaper.[154] Black people from outside of the South that were sent to the training camps found life in the South almost unbearable.[155] Tensions at army and navy training bases between Black and white trainees resulted in several outbreaks of racial violence with Black trainees sometimes being lynched.[155] In the so-called Battle of Bamber Bridge on 24–25 June 1943 in the Lancashire town of Bamber Bridge saw a shoot-out between white and Black soldiers that left one dead.[156] In an attempt to solve the problem of racial violence, the War Department in 1943 commissioned the director Frank Capra to make the propaganda film The Negro Soldier.[155]