Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School (usa)

Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School

Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School ranks 20,163rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hainrode, Thuringia, Crosshouse, and Wipperdorf. The most famous people from Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School are Gertrude Käsebier. Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School has been the birth place of many photographers. Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School is located in United States.

The Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School was a military base and training facility on the south side of Des Moines, Iowa. Established in 1901, the base trained African American officers for the U.S. Army during World War I and was where women first began training for US Army service in 1942 as part of the Women's Army Corps. Surviving older portions of the base were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 in recognition of this history. The fort property was turned over to the city in the 1950s, and has since been put a number of public and private uses. Read more on Wikipedia