Camp Cable was built as a training base for the US 32^nd “Red Arrow” Infantry Division, which was sent to Australia in return for the Australian 9^th Division remaining in the Middle East. Most of Camp Cable was constructed between July and October 1942 by private contractors employed by the Allied Works Council. The camp was handed over to the Australian Army in August 1944.

The site of Camp Cable is southwest of Beenleigh, stretching south from Logan Village towards Tamborine, either side of the former route of the Canungra branch railway line. The main camp area lay between the Waterford-Tamborine Road in the west, and Steele Road in the east, with the most southern element being the 155^th Station Hospital south of the Albert River, east of the main road. The Divisional Headquarters’ site was south of Camp Cable Road, just west of its intersection with the Waterford-Tamborine Road.

Remnants of the camp are limited to traces of four large igloos once located between the railway line and the main road in Logan Village; the internal roads within the camp site; some concrete slabs and building debris on private land; and three memorials located east of the intersection of Camp Cable Road and the Waterford-Tamborine Road.