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19. Location: Maryland. #1. Posted April 12, 2019. I am pleased to announce the website Civilian Conservation Corps Uniforms Handbook, a visual guide to the clothing and accessories issued to enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942. Link: www.cccuniforms.org.
As the Monty Python Troupe used to say “now for something completely different”, The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC was established in March 1933 as part of the Roosevelt administration New Deal. The economic conditions of the country were terrible. Many young men were laid off or could not find employment.
The basic mackinaw type winter jacket used by the CCC. Bob Chatt tells me there is another version made from plaid lumberjack type material. The PBS program, the American Experience Civilian Conservation Corps, has a young man wearing a jacket like this one.
Member. 7,122. Location: Topeka, Kansas. #2. Posted January 7, 2007. I believe that your 1935 dated jacket was made by the Sigmund Eisner firm under a government contract to supply clothing for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and other alphabet agenices during the depression. The CCC and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) housed ...
Posted January 19, 2015. Tyler Camp 896 was in Texas. 6/18/1933 located near Lampasas on State Park project #2, 5/21/1934 Marathon State Park Project #33 and on 10/11/1934 Lindale on Soil Conservation Project #3. Arkansas Camp 1752 was located near Ivan on 11/19/1933 working on Private Forest Project #89.
Location: Queens N.Y.C. #5. Posted October 9, 2012. A Marine Corps Captain of the Hold I,m imagining, the Crossed Keys was used in the Navy as a rate symbol for Captain of the Hold, in this case not a real "Captain" like the Commisioned Officer Rank,Navy or Marine Corps, but a senior NCO, the Marine Corps being a part of the Navy, this would ...
UNIFORMS. Forest Green Uniform Shirt & Trousers. These came right out of the footlocker of a guy who served in the 5th Army in Italy. I don't know of any unit that wore green, except maybe the Civilian Conservation Corps, and I don't know beans about their uniforms. It's possible the guy was in some outfit like the US Forest Service after the w...
Member. 1,492. Location: U.S.A. #1. Posted August 27, 2017. Got a nice used Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) license plate issued by the War Department. No date, but I'm guessing its from the 1930s. The second plate is pretty cool. It's from Task Force 43, which was formed in 1955 to carry out Operation Deep Freeze I.
2nd row right: similar to Collins #1232 Bolo or Splint Knife but made by Kelley Axe and Tool of Charleston, WV believed for the Civilian Conservation Corps circa 1934. Point has been modified for unknown reason. According to the "story" when I acquired this specimen, it was carried by a soldier during WW2 in Burma.
the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941. Enlisting in the Army in June 42, he graduated from Infantry OCS in 45 as a Second Lieutenant. Winning a Regular Army Commission in 46, he served two tours as a combat Infantry rifle company commander in Korea in 1952-53.