| Title |
Bryan Blanthorn, Grouse Creek, Utah: an interview by Verna Richardson, May 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 264 and 265 |
| Alternative Title |
Bryan Blanthorn, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Blanthorn, Bryan, 1919-2007 |
| Contributor |
Richardson, Verna; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-05-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grouse Creek, Box Elder County, Utah, United States; Guam; Japan |
| Subject |
Blanthorn, Bryan, 1919-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945--Personal narratives, American; Indianapolis (Cruiser) |
| Keywords |
U.S.S. Indianapolis; Iwo Jima |
| Description |
Transcript (54 pages) of an interview by Verna Richardson with Bryan Blanthorn on May 11, 2001. This is from tape numbers 264 and 265 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Bryan Blanthorn (b. 1919) of Grouse Creek, Utah, enlisted in June of 1944. He was assigned to the USS Indianapolis in November of that year. He was a gunner and saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He describes the torpedo attack and sinking of the Indianapolis, being in the water, experiences with sharks, the rescue, and being in the hospital in Guam. A second interview with Bryan and his wife, Bobbie, contains more details about the incident, his being picked up by the Ralph Talbot, and an Indianapolis reunion. 54 and 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s6tf1wk6 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; Iwo Jima, Battle of (Japan : 1945); Indianapolis (Cruiser) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018672 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf1wk6 |
| Title |
Page 8 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018591 |
| OCR Text |
Show Bryan Blanthorn 1 After you hit the water why everybody was just pretty much on his own. nd it ju t really about all-I don't know how anyone survived actually through th thing. VER: Total bedlam? BRY: Yes. And I surely thought I was gone because I wasn't much of a swimmer. But anyway, I did have that new life jacket and had it tied on. And then a 40 mm ammunition can come floating by me, and I grabbed that. They're air tight. And I grabbed that, and held on to that, and that helped me stay out of the water. But with the oil and stuff on the water I got so terribly sick that I thought-all the first day-I really thought that was it; that I couldn't live. And thinking back now, maybe that was something that helped me survive later on, but I was so sick. When it finally come daylight, and the sea kind of smoothed down and was fairly calm, and we kind of gathered in groups. All of us that survived, or the seventeen of us that survived, when we got back together and talking about it, we figured there was over 150 in that group the first day. And there was only seventeen of us that survived. But I sometimes wonder if that didn't, in a way, help me survive because the first day I was so terribly sick. I was vomiting and just couldn't-there was nothing left to come, but I just could not quit retching. And, finally, along in the middle of the day, all that was coming was a little blood at times. And I just didn't think I was going to survive. As it went along I think !-when that finally quit, why I think each day I felt a little better about it. VER: Really? 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf1wk6/1018591 |
