| 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 26 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023292 |
| OCR Text |
Show DEAN WINTER 17,2 1 was the Raiders. And I come to Salt Lake and I wasn't a very nice per on you kn w and then- DON: Tell her what the President's wife said when she come to visit you Raiders, what Eleanor said about you, Eleanor Roosevelt. DEA: Eleanor Roosevelt come and visit us at one time and she called us Carlson's Running Killers and that when we come back to the United States we'd all have to be readjusted because we couldn't live in with people that were humans, people who were civilized. DON: That's written. That's even in the papers. DEA: But I guess she was right. We wasn't very civilized when we- DON: Well, he didn't tell you they ate off the ground, they ate bugs, they ate anything. He didn't tell you that when his buddies would get killed, you could be covered with the parts of him, and there was no place to wash it, clean up. That's why he can't go see any of these shows that approach it. When you live it you don't go back and look at it. BEC: Yeah, right. DEA: We had natives that was with us on the island. We had a man by the name of Sgt. Major Jacob V ouza, he was the sheriff of Guadalcanal before the landings of the Japanese. They tried to make him talk and he wouldn't talk. It was after the landing and he wouldn't talk. So they stabbed him in the chest and in the body quite a few times with a bayonet, not deep, but enough to bleed. Then they split his tongue, they tied him to a tree to die. He worked his self free, walked back to Henderson Field and in three days 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059f58/1023292 |
