| Title |
Dean G. Winters, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 17, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 404 |
| Alternative Title |
Dean G. Winters, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Winters, Dean G., 1921-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-07-17 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan; Summit County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Winters, Dean G., 1921-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Carlson's Raiders; Aleutian Islands; Midway; Maki; Iwo Jima |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Dean G. Winters on July 17, 2001. This is from tape number 404 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Born in 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dean Winters joined the Marines in January 1942. He was a member of Carlson's Raiders, fighting in the Aleutian Islands, Midway, and Makin. He was wounded at Iwo Jima. 43 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| 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/s6059f58 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Iwo Jima, Battle of (Japan : 1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023311 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059f58 |
| Title |
Page 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023284 |
| OCR Text |
Show DEAN WINTER J 17 20 1 was machine gun fire. They ruined the outrigger and I got back to shor and th y c m back looking for me. But they didn't find me. And so I decided that I d keep on hand grenade to kill myself and I would find a place where I could throw it into a congregati n of Japs, if I could possibly do that, and kill as many enemy as I could before I died. And I went down the beach, the two or three miles that I walked, and there were people there. One of the Marines was there. I was really happy to see them. Well, we worked all day to, doing different things, into little boats which are loaded and we got the natives to bury our dead. And we tied four rubber boats to a big wooden boat that was kind of holey and I was on the front rower, on the right hand side and it separates; it'd come around from where they had come into the bay, into the mouth of the bay, and we rowed 'cause that was without any waves or anything, giving us any problem. And I was sure glad to get back with my toilet so that I could (laughs)- BEC: That duty never looked so good! DEA: Yeah. Then we knew that the Japanese fleet, some of them, were coming toward us. They wasn't very far away and they were quite anxious to get out of there because they were sitting ducks inside of the harbor. We'd been another month toward getting home. And I had to stand on the-when we went into Pearl Harbor I had to stand of the bow of the ship and I was behind everybody so they couldn't see me (laughs). And they surrounded me and got me to their truck; issued me some new clothing (laughs). BEC: So that whole time, a month from ... DON: Two months. BEC: ... from Makin to- 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059f58/1023284 |
