| Title |
Zeniff "J" Cox, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 26, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 273 |
| Alternative Title |
Zeniff J. Cox, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Cox, Zeniff J., 1922- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-26 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Duchesne County, Utah, United States; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands |
| Subject |
Cox, Zeniff J., 1922- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Marines; Boot camp; Guadalcanal; Dauntless Dive Bomber |
| Description |
Transcript (23 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Zeniff "J" Cox on April 26, 2001. This is from tape number 273 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mr. Cox (b. 1922) recounts his early life of ranching and farming in Duchesne County, Utah. He enlisted in the Marines in the autumn of 1942. He recalls his boot camp experience and subsequent training before his transfer to Guadalcanal where he was assigned to the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber. He completed 62 missions before being transferred stateside in September 1944. Cox describes occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan before he was discharged in 1946.23 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
;23 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/s6rf7t80 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023046 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rf7t80 |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023026 |
| OCR Text |
Show ZENIFFCO ZEN: BEC: ZEN: BEC: A good artist friend of ours. Ah that's beautiful. Is your family s farm still out there? Yes. In fact, my sister's son owns the place now. Does he farm or ranch? P I 2 2 1 ZEN: It is part of a cattle ranch now. He and two of his brothers run approximately 600 head of Hereford cattle there and in the area. BEC: Did you attend school in Duchesne County? ZEN: Yes, the first six grades were held in a two-room schoolhouse. I think there were only eight of us in my class. We have remained good friends all these years, except some have passed on. A new middle and high school was built in Altamont and I went there for my seventh and eighth grades. I attended the ninth through twelfth grades at Central High in Castle Dale, Emery County, Utah. The Central High School burned down when I was in the Marines and a new one built, which is now called Emery High. BEC: Oh, I see. So I was going to ask you how your family was affected by the Depression. ZEN: Well, we didn't have everything, however, we grew everything we needed. We grew our own cows for meat and milk, made our own butter, grew various grains for bread, potatoes, a large garden, fruit trees, pigs for pork and feed for the animals. We had an ice house where we stored large blocks of ice under layers of sawdust, which would last all summer, to make ice water and even ice cream. We had draft horses (both Clydesdales and Belgians), which were used for pulling farm machinery. We had riding horses, which we sometimes rode to school. I especially loved to ride and take care of a horse which I named Smokey. Dad had a team of Clydesdales, which he entered in a 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rf7t80/1023026 |
