MORGANFIELD, Ky. (FOX 56) —The Non-Commissioned Officers Club is one of the few remnants left of Camp Breckinridge, which covered 36,000 acres in Union, Henderson, and Webster counties.
The base was opened in 1942 to train soldiers during World War II and later the Korean War. There were once 1,800 buildings on the base. The service club has survived because of its colorful past.
The building now houses the Camp Breckinridge Museum and Arts Center. Its walls are covered with more than 40 murals, most of them painted by Daniel Mayer, a soldier from Czechoslovakia who was forced into the German Army when the Nazis took over his homeland.
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Amber Weatherbee, museum director, said it’s not the only building on base that was painted…