Bruce vandervort biography

          Bruce Vandervort is Associate Professor of Modern European and African History, Virginia Military Institute..

          Bruce Charles Vandervort (1940-2020)
          by John W. Hall with Blair and Vicki Turner

          On 4 March 2020, the Society for Military History lost one of the most monumental figures in its eighty-seven-year history.

          Bruce Charles Vandervort was born on 28 April in Sparta, Wisconsin, just southwest of Camp McCoy (which would soon swell with nearly 40, American.

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          5. Bruce Charles Vandervort was born on 28 April 1940 in Sparta, Wisconsin, just southwest of Camp McCoy (which would soon swell with nearly 40,000 American troops and over 6,000 prisoners of war). Bruce’s early life revolved around the camp; he grew up outside tiny Warrens to its northeast, attended primary school in tinier Kirby to its east, and went to high school in the Wisconsin metropolis of Tomah (population 5,321 in 1960) to its southeast.

          Whether Camp McCoy drove Bruce toward the military or away from the Army is unknown; he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating from high school.

          His tour up, Bruce received a bachelor’s degree in history at La Crosse State College (later UW-La Crosse) in 1965 and, only a year later, a master’s at the Universi