| Title |
Gilbert H. Iker, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, October 17th & 18th, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 518, 519, and 520 |
| Alternative Title |
Gilbert Iker, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Iker, Gilbert, 1927-2015 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-10-17; 2002-10-28 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Germany; Michigan, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Iker, Gilbert, 1927-2015--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; United States--Army--Corps of Engineers; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American |
| Description |
Transcript (106 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Gilbert H. Iker on October 17 and 18, 2002. This is from tape numbers 518, 519, and 520 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Gilbert Iker (b. 1927) describes his childhood and youth in Detroit, his father's involvement in an Army Corps of Engineers Reserve Unit prior to the war, and life on various bases after his father was called to active duty. He reminisces about his high school years at East High in Salt Lake City, when his father was stationed in Kearns. He joined the Navy in 1945 and was in basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station when the war ended. He was stationed near Hayward, California until his discharge in 1946. He returned to Utah and entered the University where he joined the Air Force ROTC. Following graduation he served in Germany with the Air Force and transferred to the United States Army in 1962. He remained in the Army until 1983. Other topics discussed include the history and mission of the Special Forces, the CIA, NATO war games, and the Vietnam war. 106 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
106 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/s6d23wv1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019862 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d23wv1 |
| Title |
Page 98 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019851 |
| OCR Text |
Show Gilbert H. Iker Octob 7th n 2 th 0 first get one day in garrison-type training. They'd be taught how-to in ba ic urvi 1 skills, edible plants and whatnot. And then halfway through the second day, they'd be given a live rabbit and parachute and trucked sixty kilometers south of Bad Tolz, and then have to evade up the track, which was about ten, twenty kilometers wide through this rough mountainous, forested terrain- some little villages and so in- in which there were very mean Green Berets looking for them and trying to catch them. And if they did, they hauled them back to Bad Tolz and if they were unfortunate enough to get caught the first day- the spent five days, generally, naked, you know, in a very cold cell with water being poured on them from time to time and they learned the hard way that you don't want to get captured. Matter of fact, all my life I have, whenever anyone says to me, "Escape and evasion," I stop them. I won't let them say that. I say, "You've got it backwards. It's evasion and escape, because if you get caught chances are you'll stay caught. So the idea is not to get caught. That means evasion first." Also in the Air Force Reserve after I left active duty I was assigned to the Fifth Bomb Wing at the Travis Air Force Base, which was a B-52 wing. Very professional outfit and I don't think- I'll say this in a way that isn't classified- but I had the assignment to analyze areas into which our air crew members, U.S. Air Force air crew ~embers, might be parachuting into in the event that their aircraft might get shot down 96 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d23wv1/1019851 |
