| Title |
Norley Hall, Springville, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, December 6, 2001: Saving the legacy oral history project |
| Alternative Title |
Norley Hall, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Hall, Norley, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2011-12-06 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Utah County, Utah, United States; Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California, United States; Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; New Guinea; Japan |
| Subject |
Hall, Norley, 1925- --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; Merchant marine--United States--Biography |
| Keywords |
Merchant Marines |
| Description |
Transcript (86 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Norley Hall on December 6, 2001. This is part of the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Norley Hall (b. 1925) recalls his childhood in rural Utah and listening to the news about Pearl Harbor when he was in his first year of high school. He enlisted in the Merchant Marines because they had the shortest training period and he wanted to get into the war quickly. He received engine room training in California and ended up on a ship transporting troops from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. He later went from San Francisco to New Guinea on a liberty ship. He spent the remainder of the war in the Pacific. 86 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| 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/s6jt1pnx |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019422 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jt1pnx |
| Title |
Page 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019349 |
| OCR Text |
Show p tri ti m that v ry ne want d to do all th y c uld to h lp th t g th r I just want d to get involved. 11 thi ut BB: How much of the war were you following? You said you wait d forth n w p p r tc. but how much of the political side of things did you get into? NH: Well I was too young to be too worried about the politics. I listened to ranklin D. Roosevelt's chats regularly. He had them usually on a Sunday evening and they were very inspiring. I followed, of course, the major issues of the day. But my main interest was in the battle itself; where they were being fought and the results of the fights. BB: Did you discuss this with your father, or mother, at that time of going ... of enlisting? Was there any discussion? NH: Oh, I told them that I was planning on it. They knew that. But, no, they didn't have a lot of discussion about it. BB: Okay. NH: My mother, incidentally, moved to Las Vegas and joined my father and I after about six months. BB: Okay. So you joined the merchant marines cause you wanted to get involved quicker? NH: Well, that was part of it. And part of it is I like the water, and I just was impressed with the necessity. Maybe I should explain just a little bit that-at that time the merchant marines was sending ship after ship to Russia, a port city in Russia, on the Murmansk Run they called it. And about 80% of those ships come under attack. Very few of them were getting through with supplies. And the losses in the merchant marines at that time, percentage-wise, were much higher than any of the armed forces. 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jt1pnx/1019349 |
