| Title |
Gerald A. Corwin, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, October 9, 2000: Saving the Legacy tape no. 119 |
| Alternative Title |
Gerald A. Corwin, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Corwin, Gerald A., 1913- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-10-09 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States; Hawaii; Philippines |
| Subject |
Corwin, Gerald A., 1913- --Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American |
| Keywords |
Chemical weapons; Redstone Arsenal |
| Description |
Transcript (33 pages) of an interview by Winston Erickson with Gerald A. Corwin on October 9, 2000. From tape number 119 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Corwin (b. 1913) was born in Hardin, Montana. He graduated from Montana State University in 1937 with a degree in chemistry. While in college he joined the National Guard for help with the cost of college. After college, he went to work for the Yale Oil Corporation in South Dakota. Although still in the inactive National Guard at the time of Pearl Harbor, he wasn't called up, but enlisted in the army. He went to Ft. Lewis, Washington, applied for and was accepted into Officer Candidate School (OCS). He was commissioned in 1942 and was assigned to the chemical warfare service, Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. He was there for 20 months, applied for the infantry, and returned to Ft. Lewis to train troops. He was headed to the infantry, in fact, had arrived in Hawaii when the peace treaty was signed and the war was over. He was sent to the Philippines and left the service on meeting the time-in-service requirements. Interviewed by Winston Erickson. 33 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
33 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6zw3p0k |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027729 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3p0k |
| Title |
Page 21 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027715 |
| OCR Text |
Show LOA. ORWI R , 2 0 Th guy just locked the door of the gate behind him. I g t th idea h didn t g t up again (laughs). But that's neither here nor there. Then we went north up to Base-M. I stuck around there until one day they gav me orders and I went back, got on another boat and came home. WE: So once you got home, what were your plans? GAC: Oh, I just went back to my old job. They had to give it back to me. Soldiers' and Sailors' Relief Act, very specific. If you had a job and went back, you're supposed to go back with promotion. I just went back to my old job; I got no promotions. During the time the boss who I used to like and who was kind of on my side he hauled off and died, which was quite careless of him, because that guy that I used to be ahead of, when he had the job, he remembered goddamn good and well he wasn't going to let me get ahead of him again (laughs). Wasn't very bright, but he was that bright. WE: This was in with the City Water? GAC: City Water Department. I was there for about a year or so. WE: In Billings. GAC: I could see I had no future there. That guy's ahead ofme and you know how the system works: he's not going to get behind me. So I went one day to Chicago and became a salesman. I sold cold applied bitumastic coating. If you say it fast, it says, "bitchamatic" but it's not spelled with a "ch". It was cold applied heavy duty coating. I had a helluva good area. I had about six percent of the industrial production of the United States in my area, in the Chicago area there. And I sold a fair amount of it. I remember one day I got, what I was working for was a janitor's supply house. I started out, I had the bitumastic comer and I just sold 20 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3p0k/1027715 |
