From D. Colt Denfield, Pacific
Base Research, Anchorage Alaska paper titled “ American Military Camps
in the Republic of Korea 1866-1996, dated January 1997:
“Camp Beavers (also known
as Fort Beavers)”
“Captain Harold Beavers, 73d Tank Battalion was posthumously
awarded the Silver Star for valor on September 21, 1950. The 7th Infantry Division,
located at the camp, named it in Beavers honor on October 1, 1961.
Camp Beavers is in Happy Valley,
near Raejon-ni eight miles north of Tonhgduchon (Camp Casey). The camp
was build to accommodate an armor force near the DMZ. Tanks of the 73d Tank Battalion,
7th Division, were at the ready in this camp. Beavers was laid out in the hills
, the 90 Quonset hut camp overlooking the flat valley below, with tank parking on the level
ground.
During the 7th Division era Beavers was considered one of its
most attractive camps. It was well landscaped and very green. Just before
the departure of the 7th Division, in 1970, a ROK tank unit obtained the camp. It
is an active ROK camp today"
