| Title |
Robert B. Clay, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, April 27, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 390, 391 and 392 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert B. Clay, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Clay, Robert B., 1918-2007 |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-27 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Germany; Denmark; Box Elder County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Clay, Robert B., 1918-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Germany |
| Keywords |
351st Bomb Group; POW; Civil Air Authority; Army Air Corps; B-17; B-24 |
| Description |
Transcript (122 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Robert B. Clay on April 27, 2001. This is from tape numbers 390, 391, and 392 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Clay (b. 1918) was born in Willard, Utah. He grew up in Utah during the Depression and, after graduating from high school, he learned to fly a Piper Cub through a program sponsored by the Civil Air Authority (CAA). He recounts how he saw an Army Air Corps advertisement which said "You can take this $25,000 course in flying, and get your wings, and get to be a 2nd lieutenant." He joined in 1940 and was trained in California, New Mexico, Colorado and Montana. He was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group, and went to Europe in 1943. Shot down on his seventeenth mission, he was a prisoner of war in Denmark and Germany. After the war he received a PhD in Physics, eventually specializing in explosives research. He was part of the group of men who formed Ireco Chemical Company. 122 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
122 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/s6hx3bwd |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020291 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hx3bwd |
| Title |
Page 101 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020267 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT B. CLAY p 27 n, 2 01 BEN: Would you save up certain items to trade or would y u pool tog ther t mak a certain something? ROB: We pooled all our food together. The only thing we divvied up by ratio was chocolate bars and cigarettes - those were the trading mediums. BEN: And did you trade your cigarettes off for other things? ROB: Yes, I would trade them for chocolate bars, until things got tough and the guys wouldn't trade off their chocolate bars, so I would just give them to whoever was smoking, it didn't matter to me. BEN: Any certain foods that you remember in the Red Cross parcels? Any specific treats that you remember? ROB: One thing that was popular in our room was that we would get some dried prunes with pits in them, and whoever was in charge of preparing the food was supposed to cut all the prune off, and then he could have the pit. When it was my tum, I cooked them with the pits in, and boy, the guys were mad at me. I would tell them, you guys are lucky, you are getting more prune this way, you get to suck the pits. But we used to make a thing called "ga-doing pudding" and it was crumbed up black bread and plums, sugar, whatever, to make a pudding that we could cook. The reason it was called "ga-doing pudding" was that it was it was so heavy when it went down, it went "ga-doing." I'm sure it was more than just our room that knew about that, but that was one of the things that was interesting. 100 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hx3bwd/1020267 |
