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== The site today ==

In ~~one video~~ interview, Eddy described the site as "now a youth camp site," where "the youth that stay there have absolutely no idea what the place is or what it was." The barracks are gone, but "there's rows of evergreens outlining where the barracks were." The motor pool area "is now the horse trailer parking lot," and "where the commandant's office was is now the trailer for where the youth leader camps."

In a C-SPAN ''Booknotes+'' interview, Eddy described the site as "now a youth camp site," where "the youth that stay there have absolutely no idea what the place is or what it was." The barracks are gone, but "there's rows of evergreens outlining where the barracks were." The motor pool area "is now the horse trailer parking lot," and "where the commandant's office was is now the trailer for where the youth leader camps."

In her Gettysburg History interview she adds that a flagpole, two rows of evergreens marking the barracks and the old parade ground remain, reached by a dirt road off Confederate Avenue near the North Carolina Monument. "I imagine… scarcely one realizes this is a significant World War II site," she says. At the time of both interviews there was no historical marker. Eddy said she was collecting signatures "to approach the National Park Service of Gettysburg to try to get a sign put up."

== Research and books ==

Eddy set aside her work on the Manns for two years to study the camp ("I set my work on the Manns aside for 2 years and interviewed intensely 10 of the men that had gone through that camp"). The result was her book ''Camp Sharpe's "Psycho Boys": From Gettysburg to Germany'', which follows German refugees who joined the Mobile Radio Broadcasting Companies at Camp Sharpe through the war in Europe; ~~a lecture she gave~~ on the ~~book~~ is on [[Ritchie Boy Programs#Dr. Beverley Eddy — Camp ~~Sharpe’s~~ “Psycho Boys”|Ritchie Boy Programs]]. She later wrote ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' about the parent camp (see [[Books]] and [[Contributors#Beverley Driver Eddy|Contributors]]). Florian Traussnig of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, whose Austriansoldiers biographies are cited on many profiles here, wrote ''Die Psychokrieger aus Camp Sharpe: Österreicher als Kampfpropagandisten der US-Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (Böhlau, 2020) about the camp's Austrian-born soldiers.

Eddy set aside her work on the Manns for two years to study the camp ("I set my work on the Manns aside for 2 years and interviewed intensely 10 of the men that had gone through that camp"). The result was her book ''Camp Sharpe's "Psycho Boys": From Gettysburg to Germany'', which follows German refugees who joined the Mobile Radio Broadcasting Companies at Camp Sharpe through the war in Europe; her Gettysburg History program on the camp is on [[Ritchie Boy Programs#Dr. Beverley Driver Eddy — Gettysburg’s Camp Sharpe and the “Psycho Boys”|Ritchie Boy Programs]]. She later wrote ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' about the parent camp (see [[Books]] and [[Contributors#Beverley Driver Eddy|Contributors]]). Florian Traussnig of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, whose Austriansoldiers biographies are cited on many profiles here, wrote ''Die Psychokrieger aus Camp Sharpe: Österreicher als Kampfpropagandisten der US-Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (Böhlau, 2020) about the camp's Austrian-born soldiers.

== Ritchie Boys on this wiki connected to Camp Sharpe ==

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* Boris Cvetkov — Bulgarian composer named by Eddy as a Camp Sharpe trainee; no profile on this wiki yet.

* [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] — told Beverley Driver Eddy about the camp. He also suggested that [[Mann, Klaus Heinrich Thomas|Klaus Mann]] may have trained there, which Eddy found was not the case.

* [[Collette, Jack Travis (0437097)|Jack Travis Collette]] — a ~~caption under review on [[Facebook OCR review]]~~ says he trained with the 3rd MRBC at Camp Sharpe; not yet confirmed ~~on his profile~~.

* [[Collette, Jack Travis (0437097)|Jack Travis Collette]] — a research note says he trained with the 3rd MRBC at Camp Sharpe (not yet confirmed).

== See also ==

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== Sources ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejaSaIInpE Beverley Driver Eddy, ~~video~~ interview on ~~Camp Sharpe~~ (YouTube)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy (accessed 25 September 2026)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejaSaIInpE Beverley Driver Eddy, C-SPAN ''Booknotes+'' interview on ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' (YouTube, 2022)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy; she also discusses Camp Sharpe (accessed 25 September 2026)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_qpINgvv0 Beverley Driver Eddy, Gettysburg History interview on Camp Sharpe (YouTube)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy; source for the CCC origin, the November 1943 newspaper report, secrecy and conditions, the curriculum, life in Gettysburg, the departure of the companies, the postwar years and the site's surviving features (accessed 25 September 2026)

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Sharpe Wikipedia: "Camp Sharpe"] (revision of 12 July 2026; accessed 25 September 2026). The article in turn cites:

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 == The site today ==
-In one video interview, Eddy described the site as "now a youth camp site," where "the youth that stay there have absolutely no idea what the place is or what it was." The barracks are gone, but "there's rows of evergreens outlining where the barracks were." The motor pool area "is now the horse trailer parking lot," and "where the commandant's office was is now the trailer for where the youth leader camps."
+In a C-SPAN ''Booknotes+'' interview, Eddy described the site as "now a youth camp site," where "the youth that stay there have absolutely no idea what the place is or what it was." The barracks are gone, but "there's rows of evergreens outlining where the barracks were." The motor pool area "is now the horse trailer parking lot," and "where the commandant's office was is now the trailer for where the youth leader camps."
 In her Gettysburg History interview she adds that a flagpole, two rows of evergreens marking the barracks and the old parade ground remain, reached by a dirt road off Confederate Avenue near the North Carolina Monument. "I imagine… scarcely one realizes this is a significant World War II site," she says. At the time of both interviews there was no historical marker. Eddy said she was collecting signatures "to approach the National Park Service of Gettysburg to try to get a sign put up."
 == Research and books ==
-Eddy set aside her work on the Manns for two years to study the camp ("I set my work on the Manns aside for 2 years and interviewed intensely 10 of the men that had gone through that camp"). The result was her book ''Camp Sharpe's "Psycho Boys": From Gettysburg to Germany'', which follows German refugees who joined the Mobile Radio Broadcasting Companies at Camp Sharpe through the war in Europe; a lecture she gave on the book is on [[Ritchie Boy Programs#Dr. Beverley Eddy — Camp Sharpe’s “Psycho Boys”|Ritchie Boy Programs]]. She later wrote ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' about the parent camp (see [[Books]] and [[Contributors#Beverley Driver Eddy|Contributors]]). Florian Traussnig of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, whose Austriansoldiers biographies are cited on many profiles here, wrote ''Die Psychokrieger aus Camp Sharpe: Österreicher als Kampfpropagandisten der US-Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (Böhlau, 2020) about the camp's Austrian-born soldiers.
+Eddy set aside her work on the Manns for two years to study the camp ("I set my work on the Manns aside for 2 years and interviewed intensely 10 of the men that had gone through that camp"). The result was her book ''Camp Sharpe's "Psycho Boys": From Gettysburg to Germany'', which follows German refugees who joined the Mobile Radio Broadcasting Companies at Camp Sharpe through the war in Europe; her Gettysburg History program on the camp is on [[Ritchie Boy Programs#Dr. Beverley Driver Eddy — Gettysburg’s Camp Sharpe and the “Psycho Boys”|Ritchie Boy Programs]]. She later wrote ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' about the parent camp (see [[Books]] and [[Contributors#Beverley Driver Eddy|Contributors]]). Florian Traussnig of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, whose Austriansoldiers biographies are cited on many profiles here, wrote ''Die Psychokrieger aus Camp Sharpe: Österreicher als Kampfpropagandisten der US-Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg'' (Böhlau, 2020) about the camp's Austrian-born soldiers.
 == Ritchie Boys on this wiki connected to Camp Sharpe ==
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 * Boris Cvetkov — Bulgarian composer named by Eddy as a Camp Sharpe trainee; no profile on this wiki yet.
 * [[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]] — told Beverley Driver Eddy about the camp. He also suggested that [[Mann, Klaus Heinrich Thomas|Klaus Mann]] may have trained there, which Eddy found was not the case.
-* [[Collette, Jack Travis (0437097)|Jack Travis Collette]] — a caption under review on [[Facebook OCR review]] says he trained with the 3rd MRBC at Camp Sharpe; not yet confirmed on his profile.
+* [[Collette, Jack Travis (0437097)|Jack Travis Collette]] — a research note says he trained with the 3rd MRBC at Camp Sharpe (not yet confirmed).
 == See also ==
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 == Sources ==
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejaSaIInpE Beverley Driver Eddy, video interview on Camp Sharpe (YouTube)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy (accessed 25 September 2026)
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejaSaIInpE Beverley Driver Eddy, C-SPAN ''Booknotes+'' interview on ''Ritchie Boy Secrets'' (YouTube, 2022)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy; she also discusses Camp Sharpe (accessed 25 September 2026)
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_qpINgvv0 Beverley Driver Eddy, Gettysburg History interview on Camp Sharpe (YouTube)] — speaker Beverley Driver Eddy; source for the CCC origin, the November 1943 newspaper report, secrecy and conditions, the curriculum, life in Gettysburg, the departure of the companies, the postwar years and the site's surviving features (accessed 25 September 2026)
 * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Sharpe Wikipedia: "Camp Sharpe"] (revision of 12 July 2026; accessed 25 September 2026). The article in turn cites: