Shirley W. Bradfield, Company 3544, Camp F-35 Camp Manila, Manila, Utah & Cox(T), VCB, USNR, WWII

Biography of Shirley W. Bradfield

Company 3544, Camp F-35 Camp Manila, Manila, Utah

Cox(T), VCB, USNR, WWII

I'm the stepdaughter of Shirley William Bradfield. Bill was born in New Matamoras, Ohio. When he was seventeen he joined the CCCs in Xenia, Ohio on April 20, 1939. He spent two days there in reconditioning training and then traveled three days to his assignment with Company 3544, Camp F-35, Manila, Utah. He served there from April 26, 1939 to September 18, 1939. There he worked as a laborer and jackhammer operator building the Vernal-Manila road through hard rock ledges. The company also cleaned up thirteen other miles of mountainous roadways, maintained telephone lines, improved campgrounds and developed stock watering. At Green Lakes a mile of log worm fence was built. Road upkeep with the building of cattle guards, road elevation, digging of ditches, and work on the Carter Creek Bridge also took place as well as numerous smaller improvements and projects.

Mr. Bradfield was discharged from the CCCs at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on September 25, 1939 with Satisfactory ratings for his CCC service and with an Honorable Discharge.

During WWII he served in the USN, reaching the rank of Coxswain (Temporary). His last assignment before returning to the United States was in a Naval Construction Battalion (Cee Bees). He returned to San Francisco from overseas (presumably the Pacific) in October 1945. On October 22, 1945 he was given leave and directed to report for further assignment to the Naval Recruiting Station in Cincinnati, Ohio by November 25, 1945.

Below are Bill Bradfield’s personal photographs, such as one of him as a young man, another of his wedding day, another of him during the time period this page was composed, including one of Bill, Norma, and Beanie Bradfield, himself, his wife, and their dog. Also below are documents related to his CCC and Military Service, and links to pages (separated for sake of file sizes) of Memorandum Number One Co 3544, and a Pictorial History of Company 3544. The CCC documents include a post card addressed to him at the Camp, Canteen chits showing he purchased goods from the camp canteen against his next paychecks, and a Camp Exchange Chit, which would have been good for $1 in purchases from the canteen, this being how some enrollees received some portion of their pay in some camps. His military documents are a time table for men returning from overseas and preparing for new stations, his orders showing that after a period of leave, he was to report to his next station for further assignment, Southern Pacific Company, Furloughee Challenger Train Assignment Form 2-43, Southern Pacific Railroad Train Ticket Front and Back, a shower and chow pass, his initial housing assignment at his new station, a leave pass at his new station. Note the documents are at the resolution they were provided within the limits of the site upload. As such they are quite large to see details. You may want to zoom out, or download them.

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