| 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 15 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018598 |
| OCR Text |
Show Bryan Blanthorn l, BRY: Well it looked like they certainly could be yes. Yes I don't kno ho th y survived or how they got around. They were hit by the enemy or by themselv s. nd there certainly was a lot of the Japanese enemy on there shooting at them as they went on if they could get out of the hole, on account of the bombs and stuff that were being dropped. But how they ever survived I don't know. VER: Well, going back to where you were floating now. It was night, and then it comes day. What happened? BRY: Well, nothing really happened. You were just out there floating and hoping that at any minute we would be picked up. None of us could believe that being the flagship of the fifth fleet that they didn't know we were gone. VER: A flagship is one that is the leader? BRY: Well, it's the one that the admiral of that fifth fleet is on, and where all the orders are given from, you might say, for the fleet. VER: Oh, so you would send it from your ship to the other ... BRY: The top brass of the fifth fleet was Admiral Spruntz, but he was not on there at the time because after we got hit at Okinawa, why, of course, he stayed over there, and we came back in for repairs. We was listed over to one side all the way back in. Because what happened is, they figured that that suicide plane, he never made a direct hit, but he had an eight inch shell tied under each wing. And one wing hit and that shell went down through the ship, and as it went out it blew up and blew a big hole in the side of the ship, in the bottom-kind of the bottom of the ship. And, so, we had to come back in to get that 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tf1wk6/1018598 |
