Everything about Camp Upton totally explained
Camp Upton was an
installation of the
United States Army located in
Yaphank on
Long Island in
Suffolk County, New York.
History
Camp Upton was named after
Emory Upton, a
Union general of the
Civil War and was created in 1917 to house and train soldiers for the United States, which had no large
standing army at the time of its entry into
World War I.
Irving Berlin, the composer, and
Alvin York, the most highly decorated soldier of the American army in World War I, were processed at Camp Upton. The
77th Division was first organized there. During part of the war, the
82nd Division was quartered there.
At the end of World War I, the camp was used to demobilize and inactivate units. Some of the units demobolized at the camp were: the
327th Infantry Regiment, the
325th Infantry Regiment, the
53rd Brigade, and the
101st Signal Battalion.
When the
demobilization was complete, the camp became inactive, and in 1921, the federal government sold the buildings and equipment, but kept the land, designating it
Upton National Forest. Many of the structures from the camp were transported to form the first large scale settlement at
Cherry Grove, New York on
Fire Island.
It was used again by the Army in the
mobilization of 1940 that preceded the American entry into
World War II and later housed a convalescent and rehabilitation hospital. In 1946, the camp was closed and ownership transferred to the
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Popular culture
Irving Berlin, while stationed at Camp Upton, wrote a musical,
Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which included the memorable song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." The musical was turned into a 1943 movie
This Is The Army which starred
Ronald Reagan.
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