| 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 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023230 |
| OCR Text |
Show H OLD CARROLL u u t 7th, 2 1 And after a couple of months there then they shipped u to M ridian Mi i ippi to an air base there. And I don t remember what the air base name was or what th y called it. But we went there. And there again, we took up training to land behind enemy lines in a glider doing hand-to-hand combat, and stuff like that, so we'd be prepared. Then in July August, 1943, they shipped us overseas and I had to send my wife home, and figured if I'd go land behind enemy lines, as tall as I was, I was a dead man. But we shipped overseas and we went into India. We went first on a boat that zig-zagged back and forth across the ocean. We didn't go in a convoy. I guess the boat was faster than aU-Boat, I don't know. But they just zig-zagged back and forth and we sailed down under Australia and stopped in Perth and took on food supplies and fuel, I guess - from what I understood. And then from Perth, Australia, we sailed up to Bombay, India. And from Bombay they put us off of the boat and onto a train, and the train wasn't luxurious like we have here. All the seats were just flats. We got onto this train and went immediately across India to Calcutta. When we got to Calcutta they loaded us off of that train and took us by trucks over to a river boat which was pulled up the river by horses and men. It was the Ganges River we were going up. We went up to a city called Chittagong. And we were in Chittagong, I don't know, for two or three months. And then they shipped us to another area and I don't 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65q6v9z/1023230 |
