| Title |
James Patterson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Perry, August 15, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 283 and 284 |
| Alternative Title |
James H. Patterson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Patterson, James H., 1921-2006 |
| Contributor |
Perry, Luke; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-15 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Philippines; Japan |
| Subject |
Patterson, James H., 1921-2006--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Japan |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps; POWs; Davao |
| Description |
Transcript (42 pages) of an interview by Luke Perry with James Patterson on August 15, 2001. This is from tape numbers 283 and 284 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Patterson (b. 1921) was in the Army Air Corps stationed at Del Monte in the Philippines, where he was taken prisoner by the Japanese He relates his experiences as a POW. 42 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
42 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/s6cz56g7 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022421 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cz56g7 |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022403 |
| OCR Text |
Show JAMES PATTERSON u u t 1 2001 the hole. That's what's going to happen." So everybody decided well okay w '11 tay here. So this one day we took the train out. It was about a five mile ride, and I was working with a carabao at that time. Do you know what a carabao is? LUK: No. JAM: I brought quite a few things back from the Philippines. (Mr. Patterson moving to another part of the room; harder to hear him). But we've got good friends. This is a carabao. But, oh, they're ornery. If they didn't want to work, they didn't work. But when they wanted to work then they worked hard. I brought quite a few things back from the Philippines, but this is one of my favorites. We went back over there, me and my wife, on a mission from 1986, I guess to 1989. But this is what they looked like when we used to work with them. LUK: Oh, wow! JAM: But when you come out you're still getting an old carabao. And you'd look at him to see if he had good side horns. They always had a ring in their nose. When you got a hold of that ring you'd slip your rope through it, and you had to pull that carabao. And, boy, if you fall on that rope they'd stop right now, or go where they wanted to go. So we were glad to have these carabao. Their job was to pull the sleds around the different areas of the field at night. They were putting barbed wire around and it kept in there; maybe an acre for pasture .. So we rode the train in one morning, and they stopped up farther away than we 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cz56g7/1022403 |
