| Title |
Alving Andersen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 25, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 628 |
| Alternative Title |
Alving Andersen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Andersen, Alving, 1920-2010 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-02-25 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Denmark |
| Subject |
Andersen, Alving, 1920-2010--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Danish; World War, 1939-1945--Denmark; Danish Americans--Utah |
| Description |
Transcript (54 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Alving Andersen on February 25, 2003. This is from tape number 628 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Andersen (b. 1920) recalls his boyhood in Denmark and the German invasion when he was a teenager. He was drafted into the Danish army and was a forward observer north of Odense. 54 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
54 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/s66q3wgs |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--Danish; World War (1939-1945); Danish Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021020 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66q3wgs |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020986 |
| OCR Text |
Show L G D that £ llow was not a killer becaus if h had int nd d t ·u h we had gotten in range. BEC: Right. ALV: So I always said that man wasn't a killer. He scared us a ay b for his range. it u til got ithi BEC: So the Germans were occupying all around in Denmark. You were trying to run them out of these cities? ALV: We were trying to organize and get things going the proper ways. We didn t fight them directly, you know, lest they come after us. They didn't do that. I remember one time that we were told that the German was up against us, to overrun us. I got the order. We had new recruits in that haven't even got the training to know how to handle their guns yet. Half of them were. new and the other half were trained men. I got the order to clean the streets. We were going to double the guard over everything we had in the area, so we could take care of them if they came after us. So I went up and the public came out in the streets and stood looking around. I went up three times and asked them to go in and stay away from the windows and doors, behind solid walls. They came down. I says, "Just do what I tell you," because I didn't want to scare them unnecessarily. But they wouldn't. So I came back after the third time. I shook my head and ordered my men up and lining over the streets, "Put on your bayonets. Now here's the order. You cannot hurt them. You can poke them in the thick of the butt a little bit. Prick them in the thick of the butt if you have to. That's all you can do." So I went up again and said, "Please listen. If you don't, I will have to take action." They obeyed my order. I put my hand up and said, "Attack," and these recruits, you see, behind us. On one side, we had a 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66q3wgs/1020986 |
