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About the FWOH Program
The volunteers of the Fort Worden Oral History Program have collected almost 300 interviews with the men and women who have served, lived, worked, or visited Fort Worden over its long history since the program’s inception in 2003. The interviews tell of the real life experiences of those who served at Fort Worden during the military era; who worked or lived here during the Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center days; or have visited, participated in activities, or worked at the fort since it became a state park conference center.
These interviews, which have been transcribed and cataloged, form a rich treasure trove of stories that should be mined for source material by historians, students, genealogists, and writers.
Interviews by Subject
- 369th EASR
- Army
- Army Families
- Army Wives
- Artillery Hill
- Atomic Bomb Tests
- Campgrounds
- Centrum
- Centrum Foundation
- Children's Games
- Closing of the Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center
- Coast Artillery-248th
- Coast Guard
- Commanding Officers
- Commanding Officers Quarters at Fort Worden
- Cottage Parents
- Cottages
- Death
- Discipline
- Enemy Fire
- Engineer Amphibious Support Regiment (EASR)-369th
- Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (EBSR)
- Ferries
- Festival of American Fiddle Tunes
- Fiddle tunes
- Fort Flagler
- Fort Lewis
- Fort Worden
- Fort Worden Parade Ground
- General James H. Cunningham
- Greenland
- Guns
- Hangar (Balloon)
- Harbor Entrance Control Post
- Housing
- Hydrophones
- Inchon Landing
- Isolation
- Japan
- Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center
- Korean War
- Korean War Era
- Living Conditions
- McCurdy Pavilion
- Meals
- Military Police
- Mines
- National Guard
- Navy
- Officers Row
- Park Rangers
- Point Wilson Lighthouse
- Port Townsend
- Prisoners of War
- Pusan
- Residents (Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center)
- Runaways
- Russians
- Seasickness
- Sergeants
- Shift Duty
- Ships
- Socialization
- Social Life
- Social Workers
- Staff (Juvenile Diagnostic and Treatment Center)
- State Parks
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Submarines
- Target Practice
- Teachers
- Weather
- Weddings
- Wildlife
- World War II
Interviews by Category
- General (2)
- Juvenile Diagnostic & Treatment Center (47)
- Military (125)
- Washington State Parks (42)
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Recent Posts
Interview Archives
- March 2015 (6)
- February 2015 (1)
- January 2015 (1)
- December 2014 (2)
- November 2014 (3)
- October 2014 (4)
- September 2014 (1)
- July 2014 (6)
- June 2014 (7)
- May 2014 (5)
- April 2014 (1)
- January 2014 (1)
- December 2013 (1)
- November 2013 (1)
- October 2013 (1)
- September 2013 (2)
- August 2013 (3)
- July 2013 (2)
- June 2013 (6)
- May 2013 (2)
- April 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (4)
- February 2013 (5)
- January 2013 (4)
- December 2012 (7)
- November 2012 (8)
- October 2012 (2)
- September 2012 (2)
- August 2012 (8)
- July 2012 (4)
- June 2012 (4)
- May 2012 (7)
- April 2012 (6)
- March 2012 (39)
- February 2012 (49)
- January 2012 (4)
Tag Archives: Commanding Officers
Interview With Douglas X. Womer
From the interview with Douglas X. Womer of Cockleysville, MD conducted by phone from Fort Worden by Clare Ledden on October 16,2014. Mr. Womer served in the US Army 14th Coast Artillery A Battery at Fort Flagler and Fort Worden … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged 14th Coast Artillery A Battery, Army, Colonel Biehl, colonels, Commanding Officers, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, General James H. Cunningham
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Interview With Richard L. French
From the interview with Richard L. French of Port Angeles, WA conducted by John Croghan at the Fort Worden History Center on October 14, 2004. Mr. French served in the US Navy in World War II and later in the … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged Army, Brigadier General Joseph J. Twitty, Camp Mc Gill Japan, Camp McCoy WI, Colonel Alexander, Commanding Officers, Couriers, Engineer Boat Support Regiment (EBSR)-532nd, Engineer Special Brigade (ESB)-2nd, Fire at Fort Worden Officers Club, Football Team at Fort Worden, Fort Worden, Fort Worden Chapel, General D.A.D. Ogden, Hudson Point, Inchon Landing, Korean War, Landing Craft Medium (LCMs), MPs, Point Hudson, Port Townsend, Pusan, Second ESB Headquarters Company, Sixth Army Football Championship, Wonsan North Korea
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Interview With Benedict O. Williamson
From the interview with Benedict O. Williamson of Louisville, KY conducted by phone on May 27, 2004 by Patience Rogge from the Fort Worden History Center. Mr. Williamson served in the U.S. Army at Fort Worden in 1951. He had … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged 25th Infantry Division, Army, Captain Buckley, Colonel Stack, Commanding Officers, Fort Leonard Wood, Fort Worden Motor Pool, Homesickness, Indiantown Gap PA, Jeep Drivers, Jeeps, Korean War, Military Discharges, Southern Accents, Staff Sergeants, Tank Recovery, Underage Soldiers
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Interview With Noris H. Christensen
From the interview with Noris H. Christensen of Lakeview, OR conducted by John Clise by phone from the Fort Worden History Center on December 14,2004. Mr. Christensen served in the 369th EBSR Company C from December 1950 to December 1952 … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged 369th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, Army, Calisthenics, Colonel Applegate, Colonel Spaur, Commanding Officers, Fort Worden Parade Ground, Korean War, Madigan Army Hospital, Morale, Native American Soldiers, Parade Grounds, Physical Exercise, Psychiatric Problems, Rochefort France
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Interview With Elinor Wright
From the interview with Elinor Wright of Andover, MA conducted by Patience Rogge by phone from the Fort Worden History Center on April 1, 2004. Mrs. Wright was the daughter of Colonel Lawrence L. Clayton, sr. who was stationed at … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged Army, colonels, Commanding Officers, Discovery Bay, Downtown (Port townsend), Duplexes on the Fort, Ferries, Lawrence L. Clayton sr., Meals, Officers, Officers Club, Officers Row, Protocol, Socialization, Weather
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Interview With Paul W. Palmer
From the interview with Paul W. Palmer of Chimacum, WA conducted by John Clise at the Fort Worden History Center on June 25. 2002. Mr. Palmer served as a cook/baker in the U.S. Army 532 Engineer Shore and Boat Regiment … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged Army, Commanding Officers, Cooks, Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (EBSR), General Mark Clark, Sixth Army
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Interview With Robert W. Klum
From the interview with Robert W. Klum of King City, OR conducted by phone by Patience Rogge on December 4, 2008 from the Fort Worden History Center. Mr. Klum served in the U.S. Army 369th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment … Continue reading
Posted in Military
Tagged Army, Boats, Canadians, colonels, Commanding Officers, Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment (EBSR), Officers, Q Boats, San Juan Islands, Ships
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