| Title |
Harold Carroll, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, August 7, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 299 |
| Alternative Title |
Harold Carroll, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Carroll, Harold, 1919-2008 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-07 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
India; Burma; China |
| Subject |
Carroll, Harold, 1919-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Southeast Asia |
| Keywords |
Signal corps; New Orleans; Chittagong; Luzhou, China |
| Description |
Transcript (41 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Harold Carroll on August 7, 2001. This is from tape number 299 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Carroll (b. 1919) recalls growing up in Utah, being drafted in October 1941, going through basic training, and being assigned to the signal corps stationed in New Orleans before going to India. He was in Chittagong before being sent to Burma, where he recalls hunting a tiger. Later sent to Luzhou, China, he remained there until the war ended. He concludes with his recollections of being a mechanic and working at various car dealerships in Salt Lake County. 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/s65q6v9z |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023266 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65q6v9z |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023227 |
| OCR Text |
Show 0 D A OLL And he looked at it and he said "Where did you learn to do thi ? And I said 'I just came out of basic infantry." "You're the guy I want." u t 7th 20 So I had to stay there and make sure that all the rest of them tore them apart put them back together, before he let me go. After we were there I don't know how long -two, three months -then they shipped the whole group of us to Tampa, Florida- into McDill Field. And McDill Field, at that point, wasn't even organized. They put us in tents - eight men to a tent. We had nothing to do for a while. Nothing. So every day we'd stand roll callevery morning- have our breakfast, and then we'd go out and thumb a ride out to the beaches. The Florida beach. While I was in Tampa, Florida, I received my first furlough - eleven days long. So I came home and my wife and I were married. And after we'd been there I don't' know how long, they finally got us organized. We were organized into a company. And they finally decided we were to go to Buras, Louisiana in a motorcade. "Convoy" they call it. Before we went, they gave me two days of training to drive a truck. Now, I had already driven a truck delivering brick and all that kind of stuff before I ever went to the Army. So I knew how to drive a truck. But they had to show me how. And on this convoy, we had to drive from Tampa, Florida, clear down through Louisiana into Buras- which is down on the bayous of the Mississippi River. And we 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65q6v9z/1023227 |
