| 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 70 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019403 |
| OCR Text |
Show 0 L H: W 11 w had a roster aft r we got on h r and all th cr n interestingly enough all of the naval armed forces were sav d. But a 1 t have no idea how many-mainly because they didn t dare jump in the wat r. 1 n BB: They might not have been able to swim too. I guess there s always that po sibility. Wa there life jackets for . . . ? NH: Everyone is supposed to have one. Mine I don't even know what happened to it. Before I jumped, I had ran rapidly to our cabin, and I was going to save some artifacts and then they yelled 'Here comes another torpedo." So, I ran as rapidly out of there as I could and left everything right there in the seabag all packed and everything else. There was a lot of pandemonium. I might mention that when the torpedo hit in the shaft alley for just a minute the engine started revving up. But, other than that, there wasn't too much going on. And then the shaft alley door, the pressure burst it open, and here come this huge wall of water in. Several of the steam pipes broke, and there was steam everywhere. I really caught a quick glimpse of all this on my way up the shaft, or the escape hatch. So, I didn't see too much of it, but I did see the door burst open and the water gushing in. BB: In that ... ? NH: Yeah. BB: That was the end of that engine room, I guess, right? NH: Oh, yeah. It was flooded. I got up the ladder before it hit my area, but it was flooded almost immediately. BB: Uh huh. Did you see many wounded when you were taken out? NH: Yeah, there were-on the frigate they had a room, kind of a hospital type thing. It was full of soldiers, and I saw them transferring them when we came into harbor. 68 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jt1pnx/1019403 |
