Biography of Robert C. McGeehon
CCC Man, Company 545, Dayton, Washington
My late husband, Robert C. McGeehon, was in the CCCs in the state of Washington. He joined in 1940 and was sent to the Ohio Processing Center in Yellow Springs, Ohio. There, on July 8, 1940, along with other new enrollees, he was given vaccinations and fingerprinted. He was then formed with the others into a detachment of 73 men who were being assigned to the Ninth Corps Area as replacements for an existing company. A list of the men in that detachment is below, a document from the trip. They were assigned to train, Train No. 4, Main 6919, with a Troop Surgeon, and sent to their new company and camp to be turned over to their new Company Commander.
He was assigned to Company 545, Dayton, Washington. Two of the men in his camp, per the article he saved, later enlisted from the camp into the Navy. Per the article, the recruiting officer of Walla Walla recruiting station, Chief Machinist's Mate M. C. Courbat Clifford Sullins and Charles W. Tipton. Sullins had scored a 95 on his intelligence test, a rare feat per Courbat.
----- Grace McGeehon
Passenger List, CCC Detachment, page 1
Passenger List, CCC Detachment, page 2
Ohioans from Dayton CCC Camp join Navy
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