1945 - The Last Issue of the Camp Maxey Times -30-

When newspaper reporters used typewriters and teletypes to create their articles they used -30- to indicate the end of the story.  These 16 pages were the last ever printed of the Camp Maxey Times.  The first one printed was on April 9, 1943.  The tabloid format paper was written and laidout by camp personnel and composed and printed at The Paris News.  During that period hundreds of thousands of soldiers, their families, politicians, civilians, and German PWs each had a small thread of the camp added to the fabric of their life.

This last issue is a very short but informative collection of articles about the camp, the war, Paris, and the people that got to know at least a small part of the camp.  It highlights the arrivals of both the 102d and 99th Infantry Divisions as well as the Infantry Advanced Replacement Training Center (IARTC).  Appropriately the editors liberally used -30- to mark the end.

For historians it has an excellent list of the dozens of different types of units there were trained there.