World War II

EAT AT MOM’S

YOUR ARTICLE “A Tragic Night in Utah” [Winter 2023] prompted me to make the trip to Salina, Utah. As suggested, I called ahead to Rodney Rasmussen to see if he would open up for one lousy guy from Moab. He did. Rodney is a very pleasant gentleman in his 80s and quite knowledgeable about the Civilian Conservation Corps that originally used the camp and the incident that occurred in July 1945 when the camp was used for German POWs. He

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