Talk:Onslow Beach

Article Checklist for "Onslow Beach"

Workgroup category or categories	Geography Workgroup, Military Workgroup [Please add or review categories]
Article status	Developed article: complete or nearly so
Underlinked article?	Yes
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Larry Sanger 21:02, 20 May 2007 (CDT); Louis F. Sander 10:35, 22 April 2007 (CDT) Stephen Ewen 17:13, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

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I intend to maintain this article on Citizendium. I wrote 100% of it for Wikipedia during 2006. Louis F. Sander 10:35, 22 April 2007 (CDT)

This is a stub, at best. Unless we think we can say nothing more interesting about Onslow Beach, which then raises the question whether it is possible for stub-length articles can in fact be complete--which is an interesting problem. According to Article Deletion Policy, this article is not only not developed, it could be deleted precisely because it is only 49 words long. I don't propose that we delete it, but the issues it raises are interesting and worth discussing. --Larry Sanger 21:02, 20 May 2007 (CDT)

Well, it's significantly better now. --Larry Sanger 17:05, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

Here is some good history on the place: http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003115-00/sec2a.htm

This is interesting: http://www.onslowcountytourism.com/

Here is a start:

The eventual selection of Onslow Beach as military training location began in late 1940 and early 1941 at Marine Corps headquarters. With new requirments for manpower stemming from U.S. interests during World War II, the Corp projected that "new species" of units and defense battalions would be needed to garrison forward bases. The increased demand for manpower would also mean an increased need for training facilities.

One among several of the chosen sites was Onslow County North Carolina's New River area, which a military World War II historian as "111,170 acres of water, coastal swamp, and plain, theretofore inhabited largely by sand flies, ticks, chiggers, and snakes." After the U.S. Congress funded construction for what is not Camp Lejeune on 15 February 1941, it activated on less then three months later as a tent camp.

Stephen Ewen 02:34, 23 May 2007 (CDT)