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Tagged with "The Great Depression"

  • His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 741 in Camp Pike (later Camp Robinson) in North Little Rock, Arkansas; company move to Camp…
  • Educator. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Pilot Grove, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 857 near Denison, Texas; company move to Karnack, Texas after…
  • His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, and Iowa; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1996 at F-169 in West Pine Creek, Idaho; reenlistment to Company…
  • Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with…
  • Cabinetmaker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps; employment as a machinist in south Florida, 1941-42; entry into the Marine Corps, February, 1943; boot camp experiences at…
  • His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Depression era odd jobs; decision to join the Army, July, 1940; Fort Benning, Georgia, 1940-41, and assignment to the 4th Signal Company; Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1941-1943; Camp Gordon…
  • Educator. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Family life and growing up around Groesbeck, Texas, during the Great Depression; his education through Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute; thoughts about Franklin D.…
  • Factory worker. Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Pre-war work experience in silk mills; effects of the Great Depression on her family; her employment at the Hamilton…
  • Her experiences as a member of the WAVES during World War II. Youth and education in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; enrollment at Prowell’s Business School, York, Pennsylvania, 1940; Wrightsville during the Great Depression; effects of the Great…
  • For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her personal reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1925-1985. Her father’s sawmill operation; creek flooding; threshing operations; changes in land ownership; her husband’s…
  • His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
  • Advertising executive. His experiences as a teenager during World War II; his experiences as a sailor during the last months of World War II. Early youth in Casper, Wyoming, 1933-42; his close relationship with his older brother; life in Casper…
  • Janitor. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Wichita Falls, post-CCC life; Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2856 at Camp SCS-10-A in Pima, Arizona and Fort Thomas,…
  • His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His boyhood in Dallas, Texas; school activities; the Great Depression in Dallas; his enlistment in the Texas National Guard, October 15, 1940; horse cavalry training and maneuvers…
  • Business executive. His experiences as a mechanic in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His family background and education; influence of the Great Depression on his military and civilian careers; his decision to enlist in the Marine…
  • Telephone technician. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Nogales, Arizona; relocation to Company 1826 at F-30…
  • Aircraft worker. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Covington, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a soil conservation camp near Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life…
  • His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Limestone County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Fort Parker in Springfield, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
  • Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Sentinel, Oklahoma and Saratoga, Wyoming; description of camps;…
  • His experiences as an officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; ROTC at Texas A&M College and commissioning as a second lieutenant in the cavalry; ordered to active duty with the 1st…
  • Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and Louisiana; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Hackberry, Louisiana and Mineral, California; description of camps…
  • His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Boyd, Texas; camp move to Mesquite, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
  • His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University…
  • Test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Childhood in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois; work as a young man in the oil fields; family’s experience in the Great Depression; matriculation at Kansas University; enrollment in…
  • For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood experiences on a succession of Michigan farms during the Great Depression, including the Sharon Hollow Farm associated with Ford Motor Company; developing interest in aviation; work…