| Title |
Chase J. Nielsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, July 11, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 64 and 65 |
| Alternative Title |
Chase Nielsen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Nielsen, Chase, 1917-2007 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-07-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Japan; China; Cache County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Nielsen, Chase, 1917-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--China |
| Keywords |
B-25 bomber; Jimmy Doolittle; Tokyo raid; POWs; Strategic Air Command |
| Description |
Transcript (65 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Chase J. Nielsen on July 11, 2000. This is from tape numbers 64 and 65 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Nielsen (b. 1917) recalls growing up on a farm near Hyrum, Utah. He was a senior at Utah Agricultural College when the army air force medical team came to campus conducting physicals for their expanding pilot training program. He signed up for a physical and was called up for training in August 1939. He discusses training at length, including his experience in PT-13s, B-10s, B-12s, B-18s, and B-23s. He was flying B-25s when he was selected by Jimmy Doolittle for the raid on Tokyo. His airplane ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Japan. He made it to shore and hooked up with a group of Chinese guerillas. He describes being captured and tortured by the Japanese, being tried as a war criminal by a military tribunal, and his imprisonment in Nanking and Peking. Other topics covered include his liberation by American forces, recovering in military hospitals, testifying in the war crimes trial of his former captors, serving in the Strategic Air Command, and his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1961. 65 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6dv3j4d |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017478 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dv3j4d |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017416 |
| OCR Text |
Show Chase J. Niel en Jul 11,2000 WIN: So you apparently liked your brother? CHA: I did. As he was growing older he would, once in awhile shirk his duty with the chores which kind of irritated me, but ... WIN: Of course. CHA: But being the older I guess he had a few more privileges than I did. WIN: Well, he could always say, "My little brother is going to do it if I don't, right?" You couldn't say that? CHA: Well, yeah. I left it to that, but-well dad was quite lenient with us. He gave us assignments, or chores, to do and he expected them done. And he didn't expect to have to come and do them. I know a couple of times, in the winter time especially, he would wake me up about 5:00 a.m. and want to know where the coal and the kindling wood was to start the fire because he would get up to start chores at about 5:00 a.m. And then mother would get up and get breakfast after the fire got going and the house got warm. And if I didn't get the coal and wood in the night before he didn't mind getting me up at 5:00a.m. WIN: That would teach you pretty fast, wouldn't it? CHA: It did. WIN: You went to school then in Hyrum? CHA: I went to school in Hyrum. But, like I said, I started in Deweyville. Dad was working for the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad in Deweyville, and they were putting in a substation up there and doing some work on the tracks too, but his concern was mostly 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dv3j4d/1017416 |
