| 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 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022755 |
| OCR Text |
Show GRANT MORRELL B Rll2 1 And the boys were alert enough they threw me a rope becau w d b n arrying th equipment, and pulled me up out of the lagoon. My nearest experi nee to dr wning aliv (laughs). BEC: GRA: BEC: GRA: Wow. They always kid me about "slippery-foot Morrell. ' Is that right? Yes. And then somewhere in the, let's see, '42, '43, the battalion was replaced by another unit and we went back to Camp Catlin in Oahu for some training and the battalion was then put aboard an LST, Landing Ship Tanks, with some equipment and so forth. And we sailed west to the Marshall Islands. And our battalion was assigned to Majuro Atoll. It was a large atoll and had a huge lagoon and was thirty or forty miles long and quite wide. And we sailed in quietly and pulled up to the little docks that were there, unloaded, got our equipment; set up our platforms, which we could put tents on, and it was all done quietly because the Japs had completely left Majuro, just vacated the place. BEC: But you didn't know that at the time? GRA: No, no. Not when we were headed there. So we had no combat but our, a couple of other battalions were assigned to go into Kwajalein because the Japs had dug in and weren't going to give it up. So the Seabees came in with us at Majuro and helped build our areas. We were able to use the Japanese building as the headquarters because it was a two-story shack, actually (laughs) but had been left intact, and they ... BEC: One second, hold on. 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb725q/1022755 |
