Camp Ashby was a temporary U.S. Army installation sited in Berkeley, California during World War II. The base was named for Ashby Avenue, a nearby thoroughfare (at the time, part of State Highway 24, now 13), which in turn was named for an early settler, William Ashby. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict... State Route 24 is a heavily-traveled east-west freeway in the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California between Oakland (junction Interstate 580, the MacArthur Freeway) and Walnut Creek (junction Interstate 680). ... State Route 13 is a short loop in Alameda County, California currently built from Interstate 580 in Oakland to Interstate 80 in Berkeley. ...

Camp Ashby was used to quarter and train the 779th Military Police Battalion, an African American unit led by white officers.

External Link

California State Military Museum

Reference

• Newsletter of the Berkeley Historical Society, Volume 25, Number 3 (December 2006)