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replacement depots  

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  • The replacement depot, or “repple depple” in World War II jargon, received American soldiers arriving overseas to fill vacancies caused by casualties or soldiers rotating home. The depot fed, housed, and to some extent trained these individual replacements until they were assigned to a unit. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Replacement Depots]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CBX82HS7-P

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