Mysteries Of The Abandoned Hidden America -frequency S04E09 Subtitles

At 00:00:01,467, Character said: [narrator] A suburban house
with an abandoned basement

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At 00:00:03,734, Character said: full of secrets.

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At 00:00:05,734, Character said: [woman] This has
to be one of the biggest stories

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At 00:00:08,133, Character said: of police corruption
in American history.

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At 00:00:10,367, Character said: [fast-paced music]

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At 00:00:12,100, Character said: [narrator] A ruined resort
where one woman took on the mob.

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At 00:00:16,867, Character said: [Dr. Kwami] Gangsters shot her
father, stabbed her brother,

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At 00:00:19,734, Character said: but she never gave up.

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At 00:00:22,834, Character said: [narrator]
And a forgotten training base
that helped save the world.

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At 00:00:27,166, Character said: [woman #2] The sacrifices
that they made for this country,

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At 00:00:30,433, Character said: boy, is it a story to tell.

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At 00:00:32,567, Character said: [fast-paced music persists]

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At 00:00:41,967, Character said: [chord strike]

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At 00:00:44,567, Character said: [narrator] Hidden deep within a
forest in central Louisiana

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At 00:00:47,634, Character said: lie the ruins of a site
that played a vital role

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At 00:00:51,567, Character said: in American history.

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At 00:00:58,467, Character said: [suspenseful pulsing]

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At 00:01:00,533, Character said: [man] It's hard to believe
with all the trees here now, but

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At 00:01:03,000, Character said: at one time you would have seen
over 7,000 structures.

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At 00:01:08,867, Character said: [man #2] The built environment
is gone, and it leaves you

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At 00:01:12,133, Character said: with a strange impression
of what once was here

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At 00:01:14,567, Character said: is no more.

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At 00:01:16,767, Character said: [narrator]
But if you know where
to look, hidden among the trees

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At 00:01:21,033, Character said: are clues of a monumental
operation.

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At 00:01:25,600, Character said: [Meigs] You see a lot
of concrete blocks --

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At 00:01:27,767, Character said: they almost look like
overgrown tombstones lined up.

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At 00:01:32,533, Character said: [Dr. Mitchell]
As well as concrete
ruins there are complete

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At 00:01:34,367, Character said: buildings here jam-packed
with machinery and equipment

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At 00:01:37,667, Character said: from a bygone era.

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At 00:01:40,100, Character said: [narrator] These sites
joined forces when

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At 00:01:42,033, Character said: America was called upon
to help bring an end

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At 00:01:45,667, Character said: to the deadliest war
in human history.

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At 00:01:50,567, Character said: [woman] These relics
and ruins that you see out here

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At 00:01:53,266, Character said: played a significant role
in the history of

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At 00:01:55,266, Character said: the United States.

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At 00:01:57,333, Character said: [Dr. Mitchell]
This is where the US
war machine geared up to take on

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At 00:01:59,867, Character said: the Nazi menace.

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At 00:02:06,567, Character said: [Lisa] Growing up as a child
not far from here I never fully

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At 00:02:09,834, Character said: understood or appreciated
the historical significance

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At 00:02:13,734, Character said: of all that happened right here.

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At 00:02:17,166, Character said: [narrator] Lisa Lewis now
works for the Forestry Service

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At 00:02:20,567, Character said: and is one of
the leading authorities

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At 00:02:22,767, Character said: on the extraordinary events
that took place here.

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At 00:02:27,266, Character said: This here was
a parade ground.

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At 00:02:29,233, Character said: Hard to imagine
with all the trees here now,

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At 00:02:31,767, Character said: but this area was expansive,
and you could see literally

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At 00:02:35,667, Character said: for about a half mile
in either direction.

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At 00:02:39,100, Character said: [narrator] Thousands of soldiers
once gathered here to listen

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At 00:02:42,000, Character said: to a rousing speech
from one of World War I's

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At 00:02:45,634, Character said: greatest American heroes.

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At 00:02:48,133, Character said: A man awarded the
Medal of Honor for

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At 00:02:50,634, Character said: taking out a German
machine gun nest and capturing

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At 00:02:54,133, Character said: 130 prisoners,

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At 00:02:57,166, Character said: Sergeant Alvin York.

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At 00:03:00,200, Character said: [Lisa] He came back
to his old unit to basically

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At 00:03:02,567, Character said: give them a pep talk
and to remind them

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At 00:03:04,333, Character said: of what
they were fighting for,

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At 00:03:06,634, Character said: for America's freedom
and America's future.

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At 00:03:10,400, Character said: [narrator]
This is Camp Claiborne,

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At 00:03:13,367, Character said: a U.S. Army training facility,

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At 00:03:16,333, Character said: constructed in 1939 in response
to the outbreak

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At 00:03:20,166, Character said: of war in Europe.

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At 00:03:23,767, Character said: At first, the U.S.
had been reluctant

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At 00:03:26,233, Character said: to get involved
in war in Europe.

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At 00:03:28,333, Character said: The popular public mood
was one of isolationism.

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At 00:03:32,967, Character said: [narrator] But President
Roosevelt foresaw

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At 00:03:35,266, Character said: America's official neutral
stance coming to an end.

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At 00:03:39,100, Character said: And he knew the country's army
was far from ready.

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At 00:03:44,567, Character said: [Meigs] The U.S.
had the largest economy

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At 00:03:46,667, Character said: in the world, but our military
was the 17th largest.

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At 00:03:50,467, Character said: Our army was smaller
than that of Romania.

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At 00:03:53,834, Character said: [narrator] To address this,
in October 1940, the draft

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At 00:03:58,634, Character said: was brought back and hundreds
of thousands of new recruits

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At 00:04:02,967, Character said: poured into the Army.

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At 00:04:05,033, Character said: [Roosevelt] Our present program
will train 800,000

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At 00:04:09,000, Character said: additional men this coming year,
and somewhat less than

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At 00:04:13,266, Character said: a million men each
year thereafter.

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At 00:04:15,934, Character said: To the 16 million young men
who register today, I say

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At 00:04:22,467, Character said: that democracy is your cause.

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At 00:04:25,767, Character said: [narrator] But boosting
numbers wasn't the only goal.

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At 00:04:29,567, Character said: [Lisa] At that time,
the United States Army

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At 00:04:32,333, Character said: was primarily an infantry force.
We had the mounted cavalry,

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At 00:04:36,433, Character said: a lot of the ammunitions,
the howitzers guns,

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At 00:04:39,767, Character said: were pulled with horses.
Hitler had tanks.

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At 00:04:42,867, Character said: [rumbling]

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At 00:04:43,967, Character said: [Meigs] The American army
was going to have to learn

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At 00:04:47,033, Character said: how to fight
a war like this.

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At 00:04:48,867, Character said: And they needed a place big
enough to train thousands,

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At 00:04:53,266, Character said: hundreds
of thousands of troops.

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At 00:04:57,367, Character said: [narrator] This sparsely
populated area of Louisiana,

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At 00:05:00,567, Character said: cleared of trees after decades
of intensive logging,

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At 00:05:04,033, Character said: was ideally suited for
large-scale war games.

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At 00:05:08,467, Character said: They would become known
as the Louisiana Maneuvers.

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At 00:05:12,333, Character said: -[rapid blasts]
-[man on radio] Zero Hour
in Louisiana,

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At 00:05:15,166, Character said: the greatest field exercise

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At 00:05:16,934, Character said: in American military history,
with over 40,000 motorized

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At 00:05:20,533, Character said: vehicles and
half a million men.

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At 00:05:23,066, Character said: One of the key things
was learning to work

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At 00:05:26,233, Character said: with this relatively new
technology of the tank.

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At 00:05:31,100, Character said: [Dr. Mitchell] General Marshall,
Chief of Staff, stated, "I want

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At 00:05:33,934, Character said: the mistakes made
in Louisiana, not in Europe."

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At 00:05:37,000, Character said: -[motor rumbling]
-[narrator] The 1941
Louisiana Maneuvers

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At 00:05:40,100, Character said: revealed deficiencies
in Army training in this new era

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At 00:05:44,734, Character said: of mechanized warfare.

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At 00:05:45,934, Character said: [explosion]

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At 00:05:47,900, Character said: [narrator]
Three military camps already in
the area rapidly expanded

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At 00:05:52,000, Character said: to meet this new
demand for training --
Camp Livingstone,

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At 00:05:56,033, Character said: Camp Polk, and
the largest, Camp Claiborne.

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At 00:06:01,100, Character said: [Dr. Mitchell] In less
than one year,

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At 00:06:03,000, Character said: over 8,000 construction workers

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At 00:06:05,133, Character said: built hundreds
of semi-permanent buildings

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At 00:06:08,467, Character said: and thousands
of pyramid-shaped tents.

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At 00:06:11,166, Character said: [Lisa] Camp Claiborne
was massive.

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At 00:06:13,333, Character said: At its zenith,
it supported over 50,000 troops.

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At 00:06:16,533, Character said: And some called it the third
largest city in Louisiana.

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At 00:06:22,800, Character said: [narrator] Predominantly made up

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At 00:06:24,166, Character said: of temporary structures,
all that is left today

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At 00:06:27,934, Character said: are remnants of the more
permanent constructions.

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At 00:06:32,166, Character said: Doug Rhodes is an expert on
this site and knows exactly

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At 00:06:37,233, Character said: where the remains are hidden
in this vast forest.

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At 00:06:42,100, Character said: [Doug] We're here
at the rifle range.

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