| Title |
Grant B. Morrell, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, September 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 408 |
| Alternative Title |
Grant B. Morrell, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Morrell, Grant B., 1924-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-09-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Hawaii; Marshall Islands; Korea; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Morrell, Grant B., 1924-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; United States. Army. Signal Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Marines; Mormon Battalion Platoon; Signal corps; Clearfield; Camp Pendleton; Korean War |
| Description |
Transcript (32 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Grant B. Morrell on September 11, 2001. This is from tape number 408 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Grant Morrell (b. 1924) enlisted in the Marines' "Mormon Battalion Platoon" in 1942. He was a member of the signal corps in Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and Clearfield, Utah. He served as a recruiter in the Reserve and at Camp Pendleton during the Korean War before retiring in 1954. 32 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
32 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/s6fb725q |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Army. Signal Corps |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022770 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb725q |
| Title |
Page 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022742 |
| OCR Text |
Show RA TMORRELL PT R 11 2 1 military group from after the Revolutionary War started. It go sway back' I can t remember the year it was organized-17-well, anyway. And I had been in th R T at East High for the two years and so I knew what military discipline was how to us a rifle, a lot of the rules and regulations. I just thought the Corps is the place I d rather be than being drafted in the Army. So that's how I got in. BEC: Well, before we move on with your military career, let me back up a little bit and talk about your growing up years. When you were going to high school you said you were in ROTC? GRA: Yes. BEC: Did you participate in any other extracurricular activities? GRA: No. I wasn't much for sports. I was a small lad. When I started junior high school, back up to there, Jules Roberts and I were the two smallest boys in the whole class of our grade at Bryant Junior High School. And I grew a little, but not much, so that I bypassed him and a few other boys, but I was still small. And I loved tennis and played a lot of tennis in high school, but I didn't try basketball or football; I just wasn't up to it. BEC: In the Salt Lake District they had what they called the articulating unit. GRA: The articulating unit. BEC: Did you take that twelfth grade? GRA: I took the third year because I finished as a senior at seventeen years old and, of course, the war hadn't started yet and I just didn't want to get out to go to school. I had no father; Mother was great for us and taught us well and kept us in our home, but I just felt-well, another reason, I hadn't really kept track and I didn't have 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb725q/1022742 |
