| Title |
B. Ward Turner, Roy, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, January 17, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 309 |
| Alternative Title |
B. Ward Turner, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Turner, B. Ward, 1922-2011 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-01-17 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany; Wayne County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Turner, B. Ward, 1922-2011--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
315th Ordnance MAM Company; Utah Beach; D-Day; Buchenwald |
| Description |
Transcript (54 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with B. Ward Turner on January 17, 2002. This is from tape number 309 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
B. Ward Turner (b. 1922) was raised in Lyman, Utah. He was drafted into the Army in May of 1943. As a member of the 315th Ordnance MAM Company, he landed on Utah Beach several days after D-Day. He was present at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp, and received five Bronze Stars before being discharged in December 1945. 54 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| 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/s6cc2zzm |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020721 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cc2zzm |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020678 |
| OCR Text |
Show B. Ward Turner January 17,2002 WAR: WIN: WAR: WIN: WAR: Very much. I loved school. Do you remember any of your teachers? Oh yes. Who were your favorites? Oh, I had an English teacher that I loved. She stressed Shakespeare. I can still remember a lot of the Shakespeare we had to memorize. WIN: WAR: WIN: She had you memorize passages of Shakespeare, huh? Yes. Yeah. Well that's valuable. I think that helps people out. My daughter had class a few years ago, where she had to memorize a number of lines, and we got her to recite that with good expression. We videotaped it, and we play that back and laugh at it now. So, it's important to know ... WAR: Yeah, the one that I remember, I think it was Portia's speech.' ... The quality of mercy is not strained. It falleth as gentle dew from Heaven on the place beneath. It is twice blessed as him who gives, and him who receiveth, the greatest, stronger than all the crowned monarch's that ever lived.' WIN: WAR: You still have that in your mind after all these years? It's something ... I don't know why, but ... I had this essay, when I was over in England, during the war. We were stationed just out of Oxford and we got to go up to the Shakespeare on Avon. That's where they do the Shakespeare shows all the time. 12 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cc2zzm/1020678 |
