| 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 34 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023300 |
| OCR Text |
Show DON: It was his flag, see, because he's still, he s aliv . DEA: He put it up. But it was just a little flag and they ne d d a bigg r flag so A. Theodore Tuttle went out to the ship and got a flag and brought it back and wa going to go up, take it up the mountain, but the company runner was there and he took th flag to the top and they put it up. BEC: Oh. DON: We went and visited with A. Theodore Tuttle to find out 'cause there'd been so many different stories. We went directly to him because he was one of the General Authorities, he was a lieutenant. Him and Dean, of course, sat and cried for the first half hour. DEA: DON: BEC: DEA: He was a first lieutenant. He's the one that told us. That's how it happened. I didn't-! got shot at up there but I didn't get hit. But I had, after we took the mountain, we were through, through with the thing. So we down off of the mountain, built a little place to stay so we could cook our meals and things, or boil our rice (laughs). They even give us raisins (laughs). Then they come and said that we-the outfit that was taking the meat grinder, which is the left-hand side of the island, where all of the Japanese billeting places were and all of the defenses. But they had killed all the guys in the outfit that was supposed to take it. They no longer defended theirselves. So they replaced all of our dead and wounded and we went up on the meat grinder. There was a boy by the name of Witherup from Montana. He was a ugly-we called him the mole. He looked like a mole. When he got back to the battle he was a go-getter. He really 33 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059f58/1023300 |
