Vintage Covered Sugar Bowl Officers Mess Camp Wolters Texas 1942 Iroquois USArmy

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Vintage Covered Sugar Bowl Officers Mess Camp Wolters Texas 1942 Iroquois US Army.
Wonderful Covered Sugar Bowl Made For the United States Army Officers Mess or Dining Room at Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells Texas.
Side Logo of crossed rifles done in brown with brown stripes on tan ground.
Bottom marked: Made Expressly For Officers Mess Camp Wolters Mineral Wells Texas
IRO-TAN Ware Iroquois USA B-2 1942 Datemark.
Measures approximately 3 1/4” tall and 4 1/2” in diameter.
In excellent condition with minimal use. No chips cracks or breaks.
Fort Wolters was a United States military installation four miles northeast of Mineral Wells, Texas. Originally named Camp Wolters, it was an Army camp from 1925 to 1946. During World War II, it was for a time the largest infantry replacement training center in the United States, and was commanded by Major General Bruce Magruder.
During World War II, Camp Wolters served as a German POW camp.
After the war, the camp was deactivated for several years. It became an Air Force base in 1951 with the mission of training Air Force engineers.
Camp Wolters was the location where two of the war's most famous enlisted infantrymen underwent basic training - Audie Murphy and Eddie Slovik.