| Title |
Roy Bird, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, December 4, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 554 |
| Alternative Title |
Roy Bird, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Bird, Roy, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-12-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany |
| Subject |
Bird, Roy, 1925- --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 |
| Keywords |
42nd Infantry Division; Reunions |
| Description |
Transcript (41 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Roy H. Bird on December 4, 2002. This is from tape number 554 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Roy Bird (b. 1925) served with the 42nd Infantry Division between 1943 and 1945. His unit was in France and Germany. He was wounded and sent to El Paso, Texas, where he remained until the war ended. Bird also talks about his trips to Europe and military reunions. 41 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
41 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/s6z62n8g |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022350 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62n8g |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022324 |
| OCR Text |
Show 0 0 : Yes. There w r orty-thr o u 1 ft r th . were forty-three out of 190 that made it out of th r . BEC: And so then, it was after that they sent you back to ? ROY: Yes. That's when we went back to Nancy. They reliev d u and and then we got replacements. BEC: So you got your numbers back up to where you were? ROY: Yes. We never did get quite up to where we were but pretty near. BEC: So you stayed in Nancy? h r nt ba k ROY: We were in Nancy about a month. We took training again, and then we went up on the front line again. BEC: Where did you go? Did you go back to the Strasbourg area again? ROY: No, we went up on the German border up at a little place called Reipertswiller, France. We were there two or three weeks and about all we did was go on patrol. I've never been on so many patrols in my life. Then, on the 15th of March, every infantry division in France went on the offensive. In other words, we'd been on defensive most of the time after the Battle of the Bulge. That's when we all went on the offensive. We really had some tough going there. Lot's of mines. Mines were bad. We go to these reunions and we see a guy with one leg and we know where he was, most of them was a mine, you know. After about the 17th of March, we got on some tanks. We rode on tanks for about four or five days. Then we were into Germany, which is what we were supposed to do. We got to a place called Wurzburg, Germany, a pretty big city about the size of Salt Lake, on the Main River. 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z62n8g/1022324 |
