By The Numbers/Student Numbers - All Classes

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Camp Ritchie: Student Numbers: All Classes summarizes how many soldiers graduated from each type of course at the Military Intelligence Training Center. Figures are from the source spreadsheet used on theritchieboys.com.

Camp Ritchie Student Numbers: All Classes
Class / course Dates Graduated
MITC classes
31 8-Week Classes 27 July 1942 – 22 September 1945 11,637
28 Graduate OB Classes 26 August 1943 – 14 July 1945 899
26 Other Graduate Training Classes 26 August 1943 – 14 July 1945 878
2 Special Intelligence Classes 11 November 1943 – 24 November 1943 21
Army Ground Force classes
41 Photo Interpretation Classes (20-Day) 1 February 1943 – 6 October 1946 1,888
6 Order of Battle Classes (4-Week) 5 November 1942 – 24 August 1945 70
19 Division Classes (4-Week) 7 March 1944 – 15 December 1944 773
18 Mobile Intelligence Training Units (5–6 week) 1 September 1944 – 15 August 1945 306
12 Redeployment Classes (10–14 Day) 31 May 1945 – 20 September 1945 119
CIC classes
22 Special CIC Classes (2-Week; 2-Day) 2,340
4 Redeployment Classes 111
Occasional instruction
8 RCM Classes (2-day) 12 May 1943 – 15 November 1943 71
1 Special Intelligence Group-Signal 16 April 1944 – 28 April 1944 60
2 Instr. Prior to ASTP, Russian Lang. Training 24 May 1945 – 27 June 1945 46
1 First Class for Instructors-Japanese 17 July 1945 – 24 August 1945 40
Special Groups—MITC 420
Grand total all classes 19,679*

*This total differs from the number given in George Le Blanc's official history of the MITC at Camp Ritchie, because of an error in adding the figures of graduates in the occasional instruction classes.

Source and copyright

The contents and writing on this page are courtesy of and Copyright "Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II" by Beverley Driver Eddy. It should not be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, digital, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without prior written permission.

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