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Soldiers pose at Fort Hancock's salute guns on the Parade Ground, c. 1942.
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The high water mark
World War II saw Fort Hancock's peacetime population of approximately 800 swell tenfold, to approximately 8,000 by 1945. Below are the stories of some of those who served both in the military and civilians who lived or worked at the Fort during the war years.
