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=== World War II ===

In October 1940, the War Department ordered the construction of another Camp Lee on the site of the earlier installation. Built as rapidly as the first, construction was still ongoing when the [[United States Army Quartermaster Corps|Quartermaster]] [[Quartermaster Center and School|Replacement Training Center]] (QMRTC) started operation in February 1941. Their number grew to 25,000 in 1942, and peaked at 35,000 in 1944.

While the QMRTC was getting underway, the [[Quartermaster Center and School|Quartermaster School]] was transferred to Camp Lee. In October 1941 (two months before Pearl Harbor), the Quartermaster School moved from [[Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot|Philadelphia]] to Camp Lee to begin training Officers and Non-Commissioned officers in the art of military supply and service. A full program of courses was conducted, including [[Officer Candidate School (United States Army)|Officer Candidate School]]. By the end of 1941, Camp Lee was the center of both basic and advanced training of Quartermaster personnel and held this position throughout the war.

Over the course of the war, Camp Lee's population continued to mushroom until it became, in effect, the third largest "city" in Virginia, after [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]] and [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]. More than 50,000 officers attended Quartermaster Officer Candidate School. Over 300,000 Quartermaster Soldiers trained here during the war. There was a Regional Hospital with scores of pavilions and literally miles of interlocking corridors capable of housing over 2,000 patients at a time. Here too was located the [[Army Service Forces|Army Services Forces]] Training Center, the Quartermaster (Research & Development) Board, a [[Women's Army Corps]] training center, and for a while, a prisoner of war camp and the Medical Replacement Training Center. Camp Lee enjoyed a reputation as one of the most effective and best-run military installations in the country.<ref name="auto1"/>

Camp Lee was also the home of a Medical Replacement Training Center (MRTC), but as the Quartermaster training increased, it was decided to relocate the MRTC to [[Fort Barfoot|Camp Pickett]]. Later, the QMRTC was re-designated as an Army Services Forces Training Center, but it retained its basic mission of training Quartermaster personnel.