| Title |
Austin Garner, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 5, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 438 |
| Alternative Title |
Austin Garner, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Garner, Austin, 1919-2014 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-04-05 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, United States; Seattle, King County, Washington, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Garner, Austin, 1919-2014--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; National guard |
| Keywords |
National Guard |
| Description |
Transcript (36 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Austin Garner on April 5, 2002. This is tape number 438 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Garner (b. 1919) recalls growing up in Southeastern Idaho. He joined the National Guard and was stationed on the West Coast, including Fort Lawton embarkation point in Seattle. He describes his post-war career in retail in Salt Lake City, working with the Warshaw family. 36 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
36 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/s6515xf9 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018815 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6515xf9 |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018789 |
| OCR Text |
Show AUSTIN GARNER APRIL 5, 2002 broke out some old Enfields, World War I rifles, and we did have some target practice with those guns. You weren't assigned one or anything. You had to tum it in every time we went out on the firing range, you turned it back in because the next company would have to come in and use the same rifle. You weren't issued one or anything like that. So it really wasn't a lot like war training, like they crawl around on their stomach and that they got later on, but our training was really quite simple. BEC: It almost sounds like-well, maybe not-you kind of had a fun time. Was it kind of fun out there? AUS: Yeah, it was. It wasn't bad, you know. Our company and, everybody knew everybody else. We carne from the same town, the same surroundings and we did a lot. We played a lot of ball, football and marched (laughs). And I don't remember we did a lot of real training, but I do remember-! don't know why they waited till winter-but when winter carne and it started to snow then we started having these maneuvers up in the mountains, outside of Cheyenne. BEC: (laughs) That's because you had that long one-piece underwear. They wanted you to get your use of that. AUS: We really liked that. We'd go out and get up in the morning. We didn "t have sleeping bags or anything like that. And these old coats and the one-piece underwear was great. We'd get up in the morning, all covered with snow and, 'course, that seems bad but what the men went through later was really terrible compared to what we did. BEC: Yeah. 11 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6515xf9/1018789 |
