| 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 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021226 |
| OCR Text |
Show RO 0 7 had to do all your computing on a slide rule and a forward ob rv r m thin li th t to tell where you were firing. So it was a lot different game than it i n BEC: It sure is. HAR: Now they get in their tanks, they get in their fire direction centers now all th y do is just punch buttons on a computer. It figures information out and says shoot . hen from there I went down to, if I remember right, we went down to Camp Ibis. About seventy miles south of Las Vegas, right off Highway 66, or Highway 10, I guess when you get into California. That's where we did our training. I guess we were probably being groomed to go to Africa, with Rommel and all of those having a tough time through Italy. But I guess the fighting fizzled there. So we were there training on the desert and all around. Then from there we went to California, Camp Cook, California. That's up, oh, partly about halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. It's now an airbase or something. We went out there and did a lot of training along the ocean. Then from there we got on trains and went clear across the United States to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. That's where we got our orders, I guess, to go overseas. We went out of the New York port of embarkation and landed in Liverpool, England; it was on the HMS Samaria, British ship. We were all stacked in the ship on the floor, hammocks above you. Fourteen days it took us to get to England. And we had to zigzag all over the whole ocean because there were supposed to be so many submarines. BEC: Right. Did you get sick? HAR: Yeah, I guess I did, but not too much. It didn't seem to bother me that time too much not like it did later when we went across the Channel. We landed in Liverpool, 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64j2dcx/1021226 |
