| Title |
Dennis Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, November 30, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 416 and 417 |
| Alternative Title |
Dennis Johnson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Johnson, Dennis, 1921-2004 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-09-30 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Germany; Korea |
| Subject |
Johnson, Dennis, 1921-2004--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (63 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Dennis Johnson on November 30, 2001. This is from tape numbers 416 and 417 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Dennis Johnson (b. 1921) recalls being in ROTC at East High and the University of Utah. After graduation from the university, he was trained at Fort Sill and then assigned as a forward observer to the Fourth Infantry Division, which served in Europe. He recalls his experiences in Germany and his time in Korea. 63 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
63 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/s67s9mz1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020112 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67s9mz1 |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020070 |
| OCR Text |
Show DENNIS JOHNSON NOVEMBER 30, 2001 somebody on close range because they were useless over a hundred feet. But they had their 30-06 rifles and they took good care of them. And they always, there were always enough of them ahead of you to protect you and we would get into buildings in towns and then we would take over a home and find some bacon and a chimney and get the bread out of the basement. Germans always had these great big round loaves of brown bread. Oh, they were good. And they'd have them stashed down the basement with all their vegetables for the winter and everything-cause it was winter most the time we were there-and so we would get eggs, fresh eggs, from chickens. Behind our guns, and occasionally I'd forward observe the tanks, tank battalions, and I'd be on the tank, just riding the tank. And we would get way into the German country with tanks and we always had eggs. They'd get a market basket and they'd hang it behind the tank where the radiator is of the tank, and we'd all protect it so you couldn't get it or anything and it'd dangle back there, not break any eggs, so we had a lot of eggs. One night we were staying in an old German camp and they had wooden bunks with straw in them, in this old building. And we'd been out for a long time. I was with forward infantry at the time. And we got in this building and had these bunks just to throw our bedrolls in and sleep and I had a bottle of scotch in my jeep that I kept under the seat. And I had that bottle of scotch and I had all the eggs I wanted and I fixed my cup, my canteen cup, to boil eggs. And I boiled up a dozen eggs and ate eggs and drank scotch till I was out. We got, the officers got liquor rations and you didn't get much time to do anything with it but you did get a ration. And it was like $2 for a bottle of scotch and brandy or whatever they had at the time. You couldn't get bourbon, you couldn't get gin. I don't know why but we never did. We got good imported liquor, Tennessee three-star stuff and good scotch, Black and 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67s9mz1/1020070 |
