| 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 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027726 |
| OCR Text |
Show and I had a friend that was going there. Denver s pretty cl se to M ntana. It nly four or five hundred miles, but I never got out there to see them. I lost track of th m along with all the other friends I had most of the army friends I had. WE: After you got out of the army, what did you do? GAC: I'm just thinking. I went to .. . when I got out of the army, I don't even remember. Oh, I know. I went to Salt Lake City. I got out of the army here. WE: You were selling houses for a while? GAC: Yes, I sold houses for a while. I was trying to think. I think all I ever did here was I sold houses for four or five years. I had enough income, I wasn't too damn interested. I could eat whether I sold houses or not and so I wasn't motivated as well as most people are to sell. I think that's all I've done. I did that and finally, hell, you taxpayers are spending money fast enough, I don't need to bother my pretty head about it (laughs). WE: So you just retired? GAC: I just retired. Well, basically, I don't know if it's of any particular interest, my main income is an army retirement. I retired at the grade of lieutenant colonel and it was over thirty years of service. I'm getting seventy-five percent of base and it's indexed to inflation. For some reason, somewhere ... oh, I know. Another thing I did when I got out of the army, I did technical writing. And I was doing technical writing about the stuff I'd done in the chemical corps. I knew how to do that. And I could make about $10,000 every summer and every winter I'd say "the hell with it" and go to Spain where I ride "space available" and take my wife, if she wants to go that year, and they' ll haul me off and drop me off there. Hell, it's only 150 miles. You go right past Gibraltar, up the coast, rent a place where you get it about half the price you can in Arizona. Everybody speaks 31 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3p0k/1027726 |
