| Title |
Robert A. Schluter, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, November 4, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 548 and 549 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert A. Schluter, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Schluter, Robert A., 1924- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-11-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Schluter, Robert A., 1924- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Atomic bomb--Design and construction--History |
| Keywords |
Atom bomb |
| Description |
Transcript (55 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Robert A. Schluter on November 4, 2002. This is from tape numbers 548 and 549 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Robert Schluter (b. 1924) recalls his childhood and education in Salt Lake City, Utah, prior to enlising in the U.S. Army in 1942. After basic training he was recruited for special service at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he was involved in electronic-related work on the atom bomb. He served until February 1946. He also relates his post-war experiences in research and academia at various institutions, including MIT and the Argonne National Laboratory. 55 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
55 pages |
| 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/s62c0x8p |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Atomic bomb--Design and construction |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017535 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c0x8p |
| Title |
Page 26 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017504 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROB RT . HL T R 0 MB R4 2002 BE : h I didn't mean to put you to any troubl . ROB: Well we might as well know what it says. Yeah it says 'Manhattan Proj ct . BEC: That's interesting. ROB: Then, right after that-this was late July-then the question was what's going to happen next. It was pretty clear-! didn't have much to do with it-but they were taking the one I first worked on, the Hiroshima bomb, and another, which was the second implosion bomb (the first implosion bomb was used at the Trinity Test), so they took those and fixed them up for the Air Force, and they got some Air Force planes out of Wendover, actually. They revised them, put in a bigger bomb bay, did whatever it took to get these bombs on. So the Enola Gay and all these famous airplanes were part of that. I knew one or two technicians went along with that. One physicist went all the way, Louis Alvarez. He's a brilliant physicist. He knew all about the bombs. The Air Force, they dropped them, although the TIME magazine from the week of Hiroshima shows Curtis LeMay on the front cover with a big cigar. They make it out like a big achievement of the Air Force. [phone rings] All they did was make a relatively routine bombing run. [turns tape off] BEC: So it looked like the Air Force was doing this. ROB: They were trying-well, that's another story that's perhaps more important. When that happened, Curtis LeMay, he had aims in mind. One, he wanted to get the Air Force out from the Army. It was the Army Air Force. He also wanted to go for big bombers, a major new project. So he used that publicity and he hammered it very heavily and he got those. That's one reason why he had to deflect Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer said, essentially, that we have big bombs, the next thing is going to be delivery: rocketry 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62c0x8p/1017504 |
