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Camp Strickland
 
A California State Guard camp established at Lake Hemet in 1942 as the 3d Area Field Training Camp. It was officially designated Camp Strickland by General Orders 55 to honor the memory of Hugh Boyton Strickland who was killed in the line of duty on 13 February 1942.
 
Sources: History of the California State Guard


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