| Title |
Dorothy N. V. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 13, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 435 |
| Alternative Title |
Dorothy N. V. Smith, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Smith, Dorothy N. V., 1923- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-03-13 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Ysidro, San Diego County, California, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Smith, Dorothy N. V., 1923- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives; United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service in the U.S. Naval Reserve; WAVES |
| Description |
Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Dorothy N. Veenendaal Smith on March 13, 2001. This is from tape number 435 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Dorothy Smith (b. 1923) recalls her childhood in Salt Lake City and working in the Arms plant shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She enlisted in the WAVES in October of 1944. She worked in the laundry, did secretarial work, and became a Teletype operator at Ream's Field in San Yisidro. She was discharged in November 1945. 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/s6wd5zsh |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Women in war; United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020810 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd5zsh |
| Title |
Page 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020793 |
| OCR Text |
Show DOROTHY .V. MITH H 1 2002 BEC: Then that must have been later in the war? DOR: It must have been about a year or two because I didn t go into th service and I didn't work at the laundry after that very long. Then I went in. But it was a while. BEC: Yeah, because that was about '41, maybe early '42 when you started there? DOR: Yes, because, like I said, I worked in homes until I was eighteen and then that was the end of that. I was tired of scrubbing. BEC: Yeah, hard work. That's hard work. So, maybe you won't know the answer to this, but how did that work when you went back to the laundry and you said the Army was running the laundry? Was Troy just out of it? DOR: Well, because I had worked for Troy Laundry, and they knew that I knew the laundry work, I got on real easy. But the laundry was under civil service. BEC: Yeah. So the people who owned Troy Laundry still owned it but they were like subcontracting or something? DOR: Yes. That's the way I understood it. BEC: Then I'm assuming after the war ended they- DOR: He took it back but he couldn't get enough workers back, so decided not to proceed with it. So he closed it down. BEC: Oh, that's something. So the Troy Laundry, again, was not where you wanted to be so you decided to join the service? DOR: BEC: Yes, got to see the world (laughs). Why did you pick the WAVES? 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd5zsh/1020793 |
