Camp Shanks, named after Major General David Carey Shanks (1861–1940) was a United States Army installation in and around Orangeburg in the Town of Orangetown, New York. Situated near the juncture of the Erie Railroad and the Hudson River, it served as a point of embarkation for troops departing overseas during World War II. Dubbed “Last Stop USA,” the camp housed about 50,000 troops spread over and was the largest World War II Army embarkation camp, processing 1.3 million service personnel including 75% of those participating in the D-Day invasion. In 1945 Camp Shanks housed German and Italian prisoners of war. After the war Camp Shanks was converted into housing for veterans with families attending colleges and universities in the New York area under the GI Bill; the settlement, then kno