| Title |
J. Harold Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 27, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 633 |
| Alternative Title |
J. Harold Johnson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Johnson, J. Harold (John Harold), 1921-2012 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-06-27 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Belgium; Austria; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Johnson, J. Harold (John Harold), 1921-2012--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria |
| Description |
Transcript (31 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with J. Harold Johnson on June 27, 2003. This is from tape number 633 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Harold Johnson (b. 1921) talks about his youth in Salt Lake City, including graduation from West High School, participation in ROTC, the effects of the Depression on his family, and working at the Denver and Rio Grande Depot. He describes being drafted into the army in 1942, his military training, traveling to England on HMS Samaria, and across the channel on the USS Nicholas Herkimer. He first saw combat near Cherbourg, France, later traveling across France and Belgium, over the Rhine River, and through three concentration camps in Austria. He served briefly in the army of occupation before returning home in 1946. He went back to work for the railroad and continued there until his retirement. 31 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
31 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/s64j2dcx |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Concentration camps |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021248 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2dcx |
| Title |
Page 10 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021225 |
| OCR Text |
Show J. OL JO 0 7 2 out as a battalion they would look to us for all of their instruction r m th 1r dir ti n center where I ended up and worked most of the war. I was in the fire dir cti n and we would plot and give orders and everything for firing all eighteen guns thr ugh th battalion. They had a lot of road marches, lot of maneuvers. And in the Pison rang down in Louisiana, we would go out for three and four weeks at a time living in the backwoods with all the snakes and chiggers and everything else that goes along with it. Then from there we went to Camp Barkley, Texas, and they took our battalion and sent us up to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and we spent several months there at Fort Sill as school troops teaching the OCS, the guys that were chosen to be officers. We were teaching them artillery. BEC: You were teaching the officers? HAR: Yes. BEC: I see. So you went to Texas first ... HAR: Went to Louisiana. BEC: I'm sorry, yeah. Louisiana, then Texas. HAR: Camp Barkley, Texas. BEC: And it sounds like you weren't there for very long. HAR: Not too much. My division stayed there for a while but they took my battalion and we went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I was there for quite a while, I don't remember how long, several months. We were teaching, we were considered to be school troops. BEC: I see. That must have been kind of interesting work. HAR: Yeah. We were out on the range firing a good part of the time. In those days they didn't have computers, they didn't have any of the niceties that they have now. You 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2dcx/1021225 |
