During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Roosevelt’s CCC put 3 million young men to work across America. Living in camps across all 48 states (and the territories of Alaska ...

but only when the Great Depression ended as the country prepared for war. In 1942, the CCC camps were winding down, and thousands of “Depression Doughboys,” who had served in FDR’s “Tree ...

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.