The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Ravenna Ordnance Plant Transcripts of Oral History Interviews.

Abstract

This report presents the transcripts of oral history interviews conducted as part of an effort to document the construction and World War II-era operations of the Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant (RVAAP), Ravenna, Ohio. This project was undertaken as part of a larger Legacy Resource Program demonstration project to assist small installations and to aid in the completion of mitigation efforts set up in a 1993 Programmatic Agreement among the Army Materiel Command, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and Multiple State Historic Preservation Officers concerning a program to cease maintenance, excess, and dispose of particular properties. As part of the larger project to develop the national historic context of seven sample installations on a state and local level, the major focus of the project at RVAAP was to document the impacts that the facility had on the state and local environments. The project was conducted by Gray & Pape, Inc., under subcontract to Geo-Marine, Inc., during the summer and early fall of 1994. Duane Peter, Senior Archeologist at Geo-Marine, Inc., served as Principal Investigator. Rita Walsh, Historian, Gray & Pape, conducted the oral history interviews.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA315532

Entities

People

  • Duane E. Peter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Agreements
  • Ammunition
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Bombs
  • Construction
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Employment
  • Historic Preservation
  • Munitions
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Transportation
  • Vegetables
  • War

Readers

  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Military History