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American Legion Post 346 Cavanaugh Flight Museum 38th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division Re-enactors Miami Beach Community Development Corp. Miami Design Preservation League Military Vehicle Preservation Assn 1st Florida Chapter Event CoordinatorsDr. Judith Berson-Levinson Royal South Beach Hotel Aviator South Beach Bruce Lamberto Vintage Military Vehicle Assn Military personnel courtesy of the 38th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division Reinactors Mario Ramos Miami Beach Community Development Corp. Lance Steytler Colony Hotel Host Committee Miami Design Preservation League Roberto Datorre Miami Beach Community Development Corp Julian Goldman WWII Veteran. Laura Jamieson South Beach Public Relations Miami Beach Botanical Garden Carolyn Klepser Historic Researcher George Neary Greater Miami Convention and Visitor's Bureau Joe Pinon
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From 1942 to 1945 Miami Beach played a significant role in WWII. Nearly 500,000 men, including matinee-idol Clark Gable, took over 300 hotels and buildings for housing and training headquarters under the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. By the time the war ended, one-fourth of all Army Air Force officers and one-fifth of the Air Corps' enlisted men had been trained in "the most beautiful boot camp in America''—Miami Beach. Another group of hotels and buildings served as an Army Redistribution Station for infantrymen returning from battle. These men were reunited with their wives, and "ordered" to have fun before being released or reassigned.
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