Qualla: Camp Dunlap https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Camp Dunlap https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap Camp Dunlap: Introduction https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap/ When the Marines finished with Camp Dunlap in 1946, they left behind a city of concrete — hundreds of slabs poured across the Imperial County desert to support tents, ranges, and infrastructure for one of the largest training installations in the American West. The government eventually deeded the land back to California. The slabs stayed. And so, in time, did the people who came to live on them.

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/6/camp-dunlap-wp/9qj6-camp-dunlap-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Camp Dunlap: Training Ground https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap/ Camp Dunlap opened on October 15, 1942, named for Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap. At 250,000 acres, it was one of the most extensive Marine training facilities built during World War II, carved from the Imperial County desert to serve the Fleet Marine Force's need for artille...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/6/camp-dunlap-wp/9qj6-camp-dunlap-training-ground.mp3 0:06 2 full Camp Dunlap: The Regiments That Trained Here https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap/ During the war, the 10th, 11th, and 13th Marine Regiments moved through Camp Dunlap before shipping out to the Pacific. Bombers from the nearby Marine Corps Air Station El Centro used the desert around the camp as a live ordnance range. By the end of 1945, the Marines began disma...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/j/6/camp-dunlap-wp/9qj6-camp-dunlap-the-regiments-that-trained-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Camp Dunlap: Afterlife in the Slabs https://qualla.com/camp-dunlap/ What the military left behind was not nothing. Hundreds of concrete slabs — the foundations of a wartime city — remained scattered across the desert at the site that became known as Slab City. Over the decades, the slabs attracted squatters, artists, veterans, retirees, and anyon...

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