Last updated: August 16, 2021
Place
Museum - World War One Exhibit
NPS Photo, Danny Ortiz
Quick Facts
Location:
800 Main St, Tulelake, Ca 96134
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Audio Description, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
Our troops were sent to France to join the allied forces against Germany after the United States entered the war in 1917. The Selective Services Act passed that same year, increased our military from 200,000 to almost four million.
My dad was drafted into the Army and left on a ship to France. He was on the ship for 14 days. He was on guard duty. The full time is on. He never took his clothes off.
And it was a trench warfare and the machine guns, everybody in the trench, and then somebody came along and developed a tank or could run over trenches on that jury. Warfare's evolve. commanding general Marine Corps with my dad's regimental commander. He's had a statement, that is Smedley Butler. And I always loved it. And it just they got us surrounded again. The poor bastards.
The World War one years of 1914 through 1918 impacted our region as they led to the creation of a veteran's preference for homesteading.
He returned to New York City and saw the Statue of Liberty, and he thought it was the greatest thing. He was glad to be home.
Continue to the CCC camp.
Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was one of the first of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs. It was a federal public works project to provide needed jobs.
The CCC operated under the Army's control, camp commanders had disciplinary powers and corpsman were required to address superiors as sir.
By September 1935, over 500,000 young men had lived in CCC camps. In all, nearly three million participated in the CCC. The discipline and experience gained soon proved helpful in World War Two.
Locally, the CCC was very active, instructing most infrastructures that the Lava Beds National Monument and Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge.
Now see the P.O.W. camp displayed behind you.
During World War Two, the CCC camp on Hill Road, west of Tulelake was used to house prisoners of war. In May 1944 the first P.O.W.s to arrive were Italian. In June, German prisoners replaced them.
The purpose of the camp was to provide workers to relieve the farm labor shortage.
As the first P.O.W.s proved successful in their work, more were ordered with the number peeking at one thousand in September 1945. Tents on a vacant lot in Tulelake were also used to house them.
We couldn't get help, and of course, they set the high school down and all the high school kids at work, and then we worked with German prisoners over there from the hill there to grab some Mexicans come in. There was another CCC camp down at Gillems camp on the edge, a little bit national monument and the tore this camp down and was one of their functions. And they were trucked back and forth to the camp there on the west side. And they took all the nails out of the board and bent them in a triangle so that if any vehicle tire ran over, it really popped up, and if you didn't get your front tire, you got your rear tire. This provided a tremendous problem over these German prisoners who would scatter these nails out of these truck.
My mother was the crew boss at the time, and so my grandmother would be cooking lunch and there was never a single thing left.
The last three hundred and eight prisoners departed the camp November 1945.
Directly in front of you is our tribute to local war veterans.
To our courageous men and women in uniform, past, present and future. Thank you. To you we owe our freedom.
Now turn to your left and enter the third and final maze.
My dad was drafted into the Army and left on a ship to France. He was on the ship for 14 days. He was on guard duty. The full time is on. He never took his clothes off.
And it was a trench warfare and the machine guns, everybody in the trench, and then somebody came along and developed a tank or could run over trenches on that jury. Warfare's evolve. commanding general Marine Corps with my dad's regimental commander. He's had a statement, that is Smedley Butler. And I always loved it. And it just they got us surrounded again. The poor bastards.
The World War one years of 1914 through 1918 impacted our region as they led to the creation of a veteran's preference for homesteading.
He returned to New York City and saw the Statue of Liberty, and he thought it was the greatest thing. He was glad to be home.
Continue to the CCC camp.
Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was one of the first of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs. It was a federal public works project to provide needed jobs.
The CCC operated under the Army's control, camp commanders had disciplinary powers and corpsman were required to address superiors as sir.
By September 1935, over 500,000 young men had lived in CCC camps. In all, nearly three million participated in the CCC. The discipline and experience gained soon proved helpful in World War Two.
Locally, the CCC was very active, instructing most infrastructures that the Lava Beds National Monument and Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge.
Now see the P.O.W. camp displayed behind you.
During World War Two, the CCC camp on Hill Road, west of Tulelake was used to house prisoners of war. In May 1944 the first P.O.W.s to arrive were Italian. In June, German prisoners replaced them.
The purpose of the camp was to provide workers to relieve the farm labor shortage.
As the first P.O.W.s proved successful in their work, more were ordered with the number peeking at one thousand in September 1945. Tents on a vacant lot in Tulelake were also used to house them.
We couldn't get help, and of course, they set the high school down and all the high school kids at work, and then we worked with German prisoners over there from the hill there to grab some Mexicans come in. There was another CCC camp down at Gillems camp on the edge, a little bit national monument and the tore this camp down and was one of their functions. And they were trucked back and forth to the camp there on the west side. And they took all the nails out of the board and bent them in a triangle so that if any vehicle tire ran over, it really popped up, and if you didn't get your front tire, you got your rear tire. This provided a tremendous problem over these German prisoners who would scatter these nails out of these truck.
My mother was the crew boss at the time, and so my grandmother would be cooking lunch and there was never a single thing left.
The last three hundred and eight prisoners departed the camp November 1945.
Directly in front of you is our tribute to local war veterans.
To our courageous men and women in uniform, past, present and future. Thank you. To you we owe our freedom.
Now turn to your left and enter the third and final maze.