Gerald A. Corwin, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, October 9, 2000: Saving the Legacy tape no. 119

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GERALD A. CORWIN B R 9, 2000 the war's going to start now,' when they're going to invade Europe. It was a cut off day and I think there were fifteen million of them, something like that. He came to me one day- he's fairly bright in contrast to me, I'd never thought about it-he said, "Jerry we know about when they're going to invade Europe" (laughs). We had to meet the 15th of May and strangely enough, they went into Europe the 6th of June. WE: So three weeks? GAC: Yes. They gave themselves some elbow room, obviously. WE: They were waiting for the proper weather and that sort of thing? GAC: Yes. This is true. That's another thing we made at Huntsville. We made a signal grenade, colored smoke grenades. You see all these people jumping out of airplanes, a helluva lot of them. If you go look at that canister it will say somewhere on it it was filled in Huntsville, Alabama. It will have an "HA" stamped on it somewhere I think; I don't know. I'm guessing. I expect if they're doing any of that sort of thing now they'd be doing it at Redstone, but I don't know. I'm out of that business. I have been retired damn near forty years. On the 61 \ I've been retired thirty four years. WE: So when you got called up for Korea, they sent you where? GAC: I was first at the Chicago Chemical Procurement District, in the city of Chicago. Basically what happened is one day I went about two blocks down the street from the office I'd been going to before with all these coatings, except this day I went to work wearing a soldier's suit. As I say, it's a couple of blocks down the street. In fact, I think I went by the first day or two. WE: Keep living at home? 23