| Title |
Olivia G. McCool, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, December 4, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 717 |
| Alternative Title |
Olivia G. McCool, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
McCool, Olivia G., 1926- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-12-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Indiana, United States; England |
| Subject |
McCool, Olivia G., 1926- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States;; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (35 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Olivia G. McCool on December 4, 2004. This is from tape number 717 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
McCool (b. 1926) recalls her Indiana childhood. Her father, a coal miner, sought work wherever he could find it and the family moved often. She talks about her brother, serving in the 8th Air Force in England, and about working for Briggs Aviation in Indiana. She worked on Corsairs, the Navy fighter plane. 27 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
27 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/s6tt6q5f |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Women in war; War work |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018735 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tt6q5f |
| Title |
Page 15 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018721 |
| OCR Text |
Show OLIVI G. Me OOL D MB R4 2 0 BEC: Yes. OLI: My husband was born in the town where he lived: Dana Indiana. BEC: Did all of your cousins survive? OLI: They all came home. Some of them were wounded, but they all got back all of my cousins. A lot of boys didn't, but then our family was pretty lucky that way. There were a lot of losses, though, and boys were missing in my town. Some of them, they said, were already killed in action. It was just a sad time, a hard time. I think we would have done absolutely anything, or done without anything, to get that war over. That was just the way everybody felt. I know when my brother was in California, he went to the Hollywood Canteen. You know when all the movie stars ran that for the boys. I believe he said that he got to dance with Betty Grable or somebody like that (laughs). That was so exciting! When anyone would come home on furlough on a weekend-there was nearly always someone-that's the way we'd spend our weekends-we'd go out dancing. We'd dance to the music of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and Les Brown. BEC: Artie Shaw? OLI: Yes, Artie Shaw. All of them. Tommy Dorsey was my favorite (laughs). So we always felt like we had to show them a good time when they were home on furlough, and we did. BEC: When you were saying that when the planes came down on the ... did they call it a conveyor belt? OLI: Well, it was like a track; they came down on a track. BEC: Right. So when that would get held up for some reason, you said you would start cutting up? 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tt6q5f/1018721 |
