B. Ward Turner, Roy, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, January 17, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 309

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B. Ward Turner January 17 2 2 remember, his name was Paul. That's the only thing I can remember about him. Anyway 15 years ago, I saw a picture in the paper-Paul Romboy had died, and they gave all the survivor . And that name rang a bell. That's the guy he'd come in the country with. Chaplain Badger had sponsored him, him and his family. So I got a hold of them and, sure enough, that's who it was. He had died, but he had a daughter. And, I don't know if it was the Deseret News there's a Dennis Romboy who's one of the writers. You'll see there. They've got his name. That's his grandson. WIN: Oh. WAR: He came over with his family and lived in Salt Lake. He had a brother, Hugo, that just died here about a year ago, who came with him. They were all members of the church. I talked to his daughter, who lives down there, on the phone, a couple or three times. It was pretty interesting, a coincidence. WIN: WAR: WIN: WAR: WIN: WAR: WIN: on? WAR: Well, you came home when, November of '45? Yeah, we landed in Virginia. What kind of ship did you come over on? Did you come from Marseille? Yes. Through the Straits of Gibraltar? Yeah. And across? And you came into Virginia? What kind of ship did you come over Well, it was what they called a converted McCormick Flying Freighter. They'd 45