| 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 80 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019413 |
| OCR Text |
Show H: Oh g h at 1 ast twenty tw nty-five. I d n t kn BB: Interesting. NH: But it was a very interesting thing to me. BB: Did you remember the man who gave it to you? Do you remember hi nam at all? NH: I don't even recall his name. I recall his method of playing checkers. BB: His what? NH: He's pretty tricky. BB: His method? NH: Yeah, he-I don't know. We came out about even, but he was an excellent checker player. BB: Well, that's a fascinating story. That's interesting. So, I mean, you weren't exactly the person to get the flag, but you were the person to route it through. NH: Right. I was in Okinawa Bay at the time when that famous news columnist got shot there, and I can't think of his name now. Anyway, we happened to be there at the time he did get shot. I can't bring his name to mind. That's one of the failings of getting old. BB: No, I should know that one, too. I mean everyone knows when he was ... anyway. So, how soon did you come home then? Was your return trip full of troops coming back from Okinawa? NH: Yes, we brought troops back with us. We stopped at Wake Island, and at Honolulu, and came on home. Very uneventful trip. BB: So, by the time you got stateside again was it back to the Seattle harbor, or did you go to San Francisco? 78 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jt1pnx/1019413 |
