A Cigarette Camp was one of a number of temporary U.S. Army "tent cities" situated principally around the French ports of Le Havre[1] and Marseilles[2] following their captures by Allied Forces in the wake of the Allied D-Day invasion in June 1944 and Operation Dragoon in August 1944.[3]
Le Havre camps were located in an area the Army designated the "Red Horse" staging area and named after popular brands, including Camps Lucky Strike, Old Gold, and Pall Mall.[4] Another group of temporary camps established at the same time in France took their names from United States cities and are referred to as "City Camps".[5] A single Cigarette Camp, Tophat, was located in Antwerp, Belgium.
The Cigarette Camps were administered by the 89th Infantry Division, headquartered at Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen.[6]
^103rd Infantry Division: Albums Archived 2015-04-17 at the Wayback Machine "The major ports had camps for embarkation both ways. They were
called Cigarette Camps from their names. When the ports opened up that is where they would keep people and then send them to the front. Then when the war ended that is how they sent people out through the Cigarette Camps. Famous Cigarette Camps were in Marseilles and Le Havre."
^"Cigarette Camps". Skylighters. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2019. And there were additional embarkation camps in Southern France, north of Marseilles, and, of course, Camp Tophat near Antwerp, Belgium.
^Sawyer and Mitchell, Victory Ships and Tankers: HAER Report. "The ship made crossings in 1946 carrying troops between the European Theater of Operations, especially Le Havre, France, and New York City, New York. From Le Havre, the ship often left from the area known as the 'Cigarette Camps'.", p. 24
^"The Cigarette Camps: Introduction". Skylighters. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
^"The City Camps of Reims". Skylighters. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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