World War II was perhaps most visible to Placer County residents in the form of the Army’s DeWitt General Hospital in Auburn. Developed in 1943 to treat servicemembers injured in the Pacific Theater, it transformed the community in ways that still resonate today.

In this final episode of our four-part miniseries, “The Placer Life during World II,” we explore the history of the hospital, its later uses as a state psychiatric hospital and the Placer County Government Center, and how future plans for the hospital campus call for broadening its use for housing and economic development.

AI disclosure: This episode includes a passage in which an AI-generated voice reads an original opinion piece published in the Auburn Journal newspaper.

Transcript: https://shorturl.at/QlWLB