网页2024年9月10日 · Camp Bowie in Brownwood was one of the state’s largest training facilities with 123,000 acres and over 250,000 men processed there between 1940 and 1946. Camp Bowie even served as a Prisoners of war camp for German POWs in 1943. Central Texas listeners first heard about the beginning of WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, Panama and Gulf Wars on KBWD.