| 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 113 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020279 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT B. CLAY RI 27111 20 1 ROB: I don't know how long it had been empty but it was compl t ly mpty h n got there. I think it had been empty for a while. BEN: Did the food conditions get worse? ROB: We didn't get any Red Cross parcels there. The food just kept getting worse and worse. I don't know if you have ever heard about the bombing ofNuremberg have you? Well, this camp was located about three miles outside of Nuremberg. It was a sight that nobody would ever get to see in their life if it hadn't been a war. It was a maximum effort. One day, the Americans came in with over a thousand planes. They dropped their bombs on the city and a lot of dust was about all you could see. That night, the British came over with a maximum effort and that was a sight to behold. You think you've seen fireworks, but have you ever seen a flare that would light up half of a city, or antiaircraft just bursting up there with red flames, and planes on fire coming down through there, it was just crazy, just unreal. And then the next day, the Americans came over again with a maximum effort, and that was the end of Nuremberg. There was nothing left. BEN: Did that make you, I don ~ t know if appreciate is the right word, but what you had been doing previously, because now you got to really see firsthand that kind of destruction? ROB: Yes. They were after the whole city. I don't know why they picked Nuremberg to obliterate, they just decided to do it. BEN: Did you ever get sick? 112 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hx3bwd/1020279 |
