The World War II Ordnance Department's Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) Industrial Facilities: Radford Ordnance Works 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 Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP), near Radford, Virginia. 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 RAAP was to document the impacts that the facility bad on the state and local environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA315694

Entities

People

  • Ashley M. Neville
  • Debra A. Mcclane

Organizations

  • Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Ammunition
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Construction
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Historic Preservation
  • Maintenance
  • Munitions
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Virginia
  • War

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.