During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps operated camps D-Army-1 and SCS-6 at Fort Meade in South Dakota. From 1933 to 1942, the CCC provided work for 31,097 jobless men in the state, including about 22,000 enrollees, about 1,700 veterans, 4,554 American Indians, and 2,834 supervisors. The U.S. Army supplied 200-man camps, food, clothing, medical care and pay, along with educational, recreational and religious programs, while the Office of Indian Affairs provided similar services for units on Indian reservations. D-Army-1 was the only camp in South Dakota where work was supervised by the U.S. Army, and its enrollees served CCC district headquarters and made physical improvements to Fort Meade. SCS-6, supervised by the Soil Conservation Service, worked on private lands, where enrollees demonstrated the value of contour and strip erosion, prevent runoff and better utilize grazing land. The camp that housed the district headquarters staff was later used as a prisoner-of-war compound during World War II.