| Title |
Raymond W. Peterson, North Ogden, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, February 15, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 189 and 190 |
| Alternative Title |
Raymond W. Peterson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Peterson, Raymond W., 1925- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-02-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany; Cache County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Peterson, Raymond W., 1925- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon; 255th Infantry Regiment; Dachau; Messerschmidt 262 |
| Description |
Transcript (64 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Raymond W. Peterson on February 15, 2001. This is from tape numbers 189 and 190 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Raymond Peterson (b. 1925) grew up in Montpelier, Idaho. He was drafted into the army in November 1943 and was assigned to an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon in the 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Division. He recalls his first combat experience in the Colmar region of Germany on Christmas Eve 1944, discovering the operation sites of the new Messerschmidt 262 jet aircraft, liberating one of the work camps associated with Dachau, and serving in the army of occupation. He was discharged in 1946. 64 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
64 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/s6dc013s |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Ardennes, Battle of the (1944-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019592 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dc013s |
| Title |
Page 53 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019578 |
| OCR Text |
Show Ray W. Peterson rua 1 trains are coming through. It took us about three days tog t down to Land hut. End of side B, tape 1 2 WIN: This is tape two of the interview with Ray W. Peterson on 15 February 2001. This is the Saving the Legacy project. Ray, we were just talking about you accompanying a group of displaced persons down into Bavaria. Would you like to continue? RAY: Yes. We left Germany, the Frankfurt!Hannau area, on about the thirteenth. It was the seventeenth when, as I recall--I've got it here in my record--that we got to Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. And here we had instructions that we were to turn these forty grown men and their families over to the 4th Armored Division who were stationed at a camp there at Landshut. And this we did. We turned them over to military officials there, and that basically ended our mission. And then we started back to Frankfurt. And, as I recall, we took the railways back. Mastrangelo was a little foggy about this, but I know it was the railroad because I remember we actually did a little sightseeing on the way back because we came through a couple of towns we wanted to see. We went to Regensburg, and Nuremburg, and a few places like that on our way back to Frankfurt. We finally were back in Frankfurt. This is where it gets real foggy to me, and the medic. All of a sudden--this operation had sent code names, "Operation Overcast," but they didn't mean anything to us. All of a sudden an article comes out in the Stars & Stripes, which was the American military newspaper that we went by. That was about our main communication with the outside world. And, lo and behold, this article comes 51 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dc013s/1019578 |
