1. Colorado and the Impact of…
World War II

2. Overview Similarities and Differences Between the Two Great Wars
Farming
Manufacturing
Mining
People
Military
Others
Hospitals
Troops/Bases
Tenth Mnt. Division
Amache

3. The Different Wars Bases, “Forts”, “Camps” established
Similarities
Differences
Farming production increases
Land value goes up
High Prices
Push to grow more product
Mining grows
Mining slows
Factories push production
Volunteers and Draftees enter the war in mass numbers
Population growth
Bases, “Forts”, “Camps” established
Millions of Government money is pumped into CO
Ship building
Amache
Post war markets

4. Farming Land value sky rockets $40 per acre!
High land prices= high product prices ( wheat, corn, sugar, beef)
Greatest production in Colorado's History
Not until 1949 will farm income start to slip
Land that had been “conserved” during the Great Depression was once again ripped up and used for planting

5. Manufacturing Denver Arms plant
Remington Co. and Henry Kaiser operated it as an arsenal
Height of the plant 20,000 people worked there
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Chemical weapons plant
15,000 people
Converted and expanded existing facilities for war production
Federal Government will pump $360 million in contacts into Colorado’s Economy
Every industrial plant was touched by the war effort
Fun Fact
Colorado (land locked state) help build the hull sections for escort vehicles

6. Mining Growth and hard times happened
Intense mining to find needed minerals for essential metals
Federal government regulations of the industry
Gold limitation L-280
Closed mines by not granting access to machine part or materials needed for production
Gold and Silver mining slumps
The Climax Molybdenum mine
Stays the world’s largest producer of the product
Coal production makes a rebound in the 1940’s
But then dropped off
Colorado’s Natural gas market begins to bloom

7. People Personal Sacrifice
Military
During the War
Personal Sacrifice
138,832 men and women enlisted or were drafted
This is 1/8 of the entire state’s population
Meaning that almost no family was not touched by the war
Colorado will loose 2,700 lives
200,000 more people would move to Colorado during the war time
20,000 workers are employed in manufacture in cartridges, shells and fuses
Urban growth
Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties grow to be the largest counties
Mining towns decrease in population

8. Hospitals WWII Helping Veterans WWI All of those Hospital
VA adds two more additional sites for Hospital
Major Medical Center in Grand Junction (1949)
Another in Denver (1951)
Helping Veterans
WWI
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Aurora
Took WWI Vets
Navy used Hotel Colorado
Glenwood Springs for a convalescent hospital
1922 VA
Fort Lyons on the Arkansas River

9. Military Bases Location is key Lowry Air Force Base Buckley Field
Land locked and far enough away from each coast
Lowry Air Force Base
Buckley Field
Peterson Air Field
Pueblo Army Air Base
La Junta Army Air Field
Camp Hale
Camp Carson
Would eventually house German POWs

10. Tenth Mountain Division
Camp Hale
Special Training camp near Leadville
High Colorado mnts. the best skiers trained there
More than 14,000 men trained on skis
Then the left to fight in the snowy mountains of Italy
Some these men come back and stated ski resorts in our state!

11. Colorado Heroes Congressional Medal of Honor
Pueblo Central HS student were given this honor
Joseph P. Martinez
His bravery in Alaska
23 when he was killed

12. Amache After Pearl Harbor
Japanese Americans are removed from the west coast
They had to leave everything behind
They are placed into “relocation” camps
There were around 10 different camps in the United States
One was located in Colorado