| Title |
Joe Tobari, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 30, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 250 |
| Alternative Title |
Joseph Tobari, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Tobari, Joseph, 1924-2004 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-05-30 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Italy; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Tobari, Joseph, 1924-2004--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Joseph Tobari on May 30, 2001. This is from tape number 250 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Joseph Tobari (b. 1924) grew up in Salt Lake City. He discusses the discrimination he faced as a Japanese-American high school student after Pearl Harbor. He joined the Army in 1943 as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He served in Italy, and later worked as a graphic artist for the Salt Lake Tribune and elsewhere in Salt Lake City. 26 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
26 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/s6h43qqs |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Japanese Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020664 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h43qqs |
| Title |
Page 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020651 |
| OCR Text |
Show JO TOBARI 0 2001 BBL: o what happened after the war nded? What did y u d aft r that? You came back home, obviously. JOE: BBL: JOE: Well, I had a girlfriend at the titne living in Chicago. Uhuh. So when I was at the repo depot in Naples they asked me where I wanted to go to after overseas and come back to the United States. I said, I would like to go to Illinois to my girlfriend's. So I got discharged at Camp Grant. But in some ways my mistake, I'm my worst enemy. Prior to getting discharged they asked me, Is there anything wrong with you, you know, physically? I said, No. I just wanted to get my discharge papers so I said, No. If I'd said about my knee then it would have been written and I would receive compensation. I'm my own worst enemy. BBL: But you didn't know, at the time. JOE: No. At the time I didn't know there would be compensation. So, like I said, I'm my own worst enemy. BBL: Oh, that's too bad. JOE: Then after my little stay in Chicago, I came back to Salt Lake. Then I enrolled at-well, I worked at Alta. BBL: At the ski resort? JOE: Yeah. For two years. You might call it combat fatigue. I wasn't ready for any type of employment and I wasn't ready for school and I had a friend that was a manager at a ski lift at Alta and they asked me if I wanted to work up there. I thought that would be a perfect out at the time. So I worked up there two winters. BBL: Are you a skier? 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h43qqs/1020651 |
