- Collection:
- Civilian Conservation Corps Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Interview with John West
- Creator:
- Armstrong Oral History Class
- Publisher:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Date of Original:
- 2000-07-28
- Subject:
- Georgia--History
Public welfare--Georgia
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.), Georgia--Fort Pulaski
Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration
Depressions--1929
Work Projects Administration (U.S.)
New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia
United States. National Youth Administration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, 31.97402, -81.09243
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Fort Pulaski National Monument, 32.03082, -80.93361 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- As in most of these interviews students asked about: hometown, family and life before CCC; joining the CCC; work, social life and training, education in CCC/at the Camp; military service in WWII; the New Deal/Roosevelt; later life’s work. Also, Details of daily life in camp, including food, illnesses, buildings and people.
West who joined in 1940 in particular discusses work for CCC in Oregon, Camp Klamel? 2 miles outside of Murrel? OR. He did not work at Ft. Pulaski. Worked for Bureau of Reclamation, irrigation canals, truck driving, kitchen, fought forest fires. Received 16 certificates in industrial training, medic during War, learned to work more efficiently, “John’s Lever”, train ride from GA to Oregon, pay, reunions, CCC memorial at Pine Mountain, GA, worked at Union Camp in Savannah.
Historic Preservation and Conservation -- History -- Social Welfare -- CCC in Oregon -- Bureau of Reclamation -- irrigation -- forest fires -- industrial training certificates -- medic -- training -- efficiency -- train ride -- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Georgia--Fort Pulaski -- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.) -- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration -- Depressions--1929 -- Nineteen thirties -- Work Projects Administration (U.S.) -- New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia -- United States. National Youth Administration -- University Partner Collections, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Oral History Interviews - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ccc-pulaski-oral-histories/9
- Original Collection:
- National Park Service, Fort Pulaski National Monument
- Holding Institution:
- Fort Pulaski National Monument (Ga.)
- Rights:
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