| 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 51 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021013 |
| OCR Text |
Show B C: That s really great. It was becaus of your era m n hi practices that you had that good name. AL V: Yeah, and most of my work was gotten through r comm So I was always busy too, as long as I could. m th r . BEC: You were telling me before we started, when I was looking at this pictur o y u with your huge family there, and you were saying that you have three sons and one daughter. ALV: Yes. BEC: Do they live around here? AL V: Yeah. One lives over on 49th, over here. I have two over here in, what do you call it, out there, that way? It's way out on 90th South and llOth South-Sandy. Is it Sandy? BEC: Yes, that sounds right. ALV: Anyway, they are living out there, both of them, living in Sandy. Then my daughter is living out here in West Valley. BEC: Okay, so you've got family close. AL V: So, I can go out to my sons' in twenty minutes, to half an hour and about the same out to my daughter's and five or ten minutes, easily to my other son's. That is in a car, not walking (laughs). BEC: How many grandchildren do you have now? AL V: I have twenty-five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. BEC: That's a lot. AL V: So the diapers are still moving. 50 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66q3wgs/1021013 |
