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Title	Robert Cope, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Joel Calderon, [July 31, 2001]: Saving the legacy tape no. 278
Alternative Title	Robert L. Cope, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah
Creator	Cope, Robert L., 1918-2002
Contributor	Calderon, Joel C.; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date	2001-07-31
Date Digital	2015-09-16
Access Rights	I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah.
Spatial Coverage	Florida; Montana
Subject	Cope, Robert L., 1918-2002--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; Flight training
Keywords	Army Flight Service; Flight trainers
Description	Transcript (81 pages) of an interview by Joel C. Calderon with Robert L. Cope on July 31, 2001. This is from tape number 278 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project
Collection Number and Name	Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010
Abstract	Cope (b. 1918) joined the Army Air Corps shortly after Pearl Harbor. Although he had a pilot's license, he was not trained as a military pilot because he couldn't pass the pressure chamber test. He spent the war training pilots and in the Army Flight Service, giving weather briefings and managing field traffic. 21 pages.
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Genre	oral histories (literary works)
Format	application/pdf
Extent	81 pages
Language	eng
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ARK	ark:/87278/s6w68k15
Topic	Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Flight training
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ID	1021320
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6w68k15

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OCR Text	Show ROBERT L. COPE JUL 31 , 2001 So I would take the bus to go to work at Gore Field and leave th car hom and we'd save all the stamps that we could possibly save. I remember when I got to Richfield, well, I went to church and our neighbor was judge of the 6 th Judicial Court. Judge Sevy was his name. And he asked me, "Well, how did you get down here?' And I though, "Uh oh, he's checking on gas stamps." So I said,' We came in a car, but we had a hard time saving up enough gas stamps, but I think we made it alright." And so his comment was, he being judge, he said this: "Oh, well, don't worry! If you're running short of gas stamps, all you have to do is see some of these farmers. They get plenty." But I had the feeling all during the war that the communities, or the people that were not in the service, they supported the servicemen 100% in all ways. Even this judge, see. His attitude was to see that I got enough stamps that I could get back to my base. And that was his attitude. So you had a feeling that the populous of the United States supported the war effort 100%. WIFE: Every way. Every way. JOE: Well, compared to today. ROB: Yeah. JOE: Must have been a better time. ROB: When I got out of the service, I got a job with the post office, and worked there thirty years. And the reason why I went to the post office rather than go back to my home town to teach was that during the war, I think it was then that they decided to consolidate 17
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6w68k15/1021315