Camp Davis Athletic Field, also known as Post Athletic Field, was used by the Camp Davis Archies from 1943 to 1944; it replaced their use of Wilmington's American Legion Stadium as a home venue. The field went disused with the closure of Camp Davis in September 1944, but its exact date of destruction is not known.

Overall, NC State had a record of 0-1 at this field, losing their one game in front of the largest crowd they played before for the season, more than doubling the next closest viewership, in part due to the game's free admission.

  * Non-conference games

Though Camp Davis played their home games in Wilmington for the 1941 and 1942 seasons, the Anti-Aircraft men were unable to make a deal with the city prior to 1943, so began playing on their own post's athletic field [1] [2]. Though the venue likely existed as an informal practice or drill field prior to its use as their primary football field, the venue was first formally constructed in the months leading up to their September 25th, 1943 game against Wake Forest. The field, located just across the street from camp headquarters, was constructed largely by troops stationed at the base. The grounds opened with a bleacher capacity of 6,000 but routinely held crowds significantly larger [3].

Despite period maps indicating an "athletic field," analyzing the images shows it was not there. Instead, it was located just south and east of the athletic field, on the block bounded by A St and B St (modern-day Lloyd St and Holly St) on the east and west, and 20th St and 21st St (modern-day NC 50 -- W Ocean Rd -- and Camp Davis Rd) on the north and south. Starting from the west and working clockwise, the best reference to support this is Farnsworth Hall, whose north side can be seen in the panoramic image of the Wake Forest game. The A.A.A. School Headquarters is the building with casement windows and entrance stoop visible in the rear of the first two images below from the Beigh scrapbook, as well as the second Wake Forest image. A tall building with double-sectioned windows can be seen just behind the field of play in the Fort Bragg image, as well as the fourth Wake Forest image and the third image of the Beigh scrapbook. A few buildings from the town of Holly Ridge can be seen in the background on the left side of the Wake Forest panoramic, as well as the fourth and fifth images of the Beigh scrapbook.

The field proved to be short-lived: in January 1944, the anti-aircraft artillery battalions (AAA) suspended operations at the base, and in the fall of that same year the camp buildings and materials were disassembled and/or auctioned off; many of the structures ended up in nearby Wilmington, while barracks and mess halls in particular were dismantled and sent to Cleveland and Washington for GI housing on college campuses in late 1947-early 1948.

Several of the camp's buildings remained through the late 1940s despite a partial demolition to the grounds shortly before the end of the war. From January to July 1945, the grounds were Army Air Force Redistribution and Convalescent Center, and starting in June 1946 served a small contingent of sailors in the Navy; the grounds were later a marine corps training camp. In late March 1947, a disparate portion of camp several miles away was used for Operation Bumblebee, which was Johns Hopkins' development of surface-to-air missiles; the camp facilities proper were utilized by the new detachment supervising the work. Though the conversion was easy, it was short-lived, as testing ceased in July 1948 so various testing locations could be consolidated [4]. Following that date, all of the camp but the air fields were considered surplus and were returned to the original landowners. The air fields, which the Marine Corps rents from International Paper, remain in use to this day for exercises [12].

Photos of Camp Davis Athletic Field