| Title |
Dale H. West, Provo, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, June 23, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 45 |
| Alternative Title |
Dale H. West, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
West, Dale H., 1918-2007 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-06-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Utah County, Utah, United States; New Guinea; Philippines |
| Subject |
West, Dale H., 1918-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
7th Army Air Force; Radio; decoding |
| Description |
Transcript (28 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Dale H. West on June 23, 2000. This is from tape number 45 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
West (b. 1918) recalls his childhood in Provo, Utah, and describes getting a degree in English from Brigham Young University. He taught school for several years and eventually received both a master's degree and doctorate in English. He served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations with the 7th Army Air Force. He describes intercepting and classifying enemy air-to-ground and point-to-point radio messages. He decoded and relayed information concerning weather conditions, enemy air action, and enemy administrative orders to locally-based air combat units. 28 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
28 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/s6sx8cdx |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023445 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023428 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST Jun 23,2000 I liked what we were doing. So we were in Fresno. We learned some Japanese. We learned that the Japanese code wa set up by the English, and all you had to do was be able to type twice as fast because L in ngl ish Morse is the dit da dit dit. In Japanese, it's KA, so you had two letters instead of just one. It was quite interesting, and I was pretty good. I was pretty good. When we were finally shipped out my wife came down and lived with me for part of the time. WIN: Oh, she was able to move down to Fresno? DAL: Yes. We lived in a soldier's area there for about a year. Then I was sent up to Stockton where we were to go overseas. We had abandon ship training, and we had it about ten times because the ship we were about to go on was an icebreaker, and it needed some changes in its brass fittings of the water. Two companies-two unions-felt they were the ones to do it. And then we left. I thought we were going to Hawaii, but we ended up in Finschhafen, New Guinea. WIN: Finschhafen, New Guinea. That's quite a ways from Hawaii, isn't it? How long did it take you to get there? DAL: About a month. WIN: A whole month on that ship? Did you stop in Hawaii, or did you just sail on by? DAL: We didn't ever stop. WIN: Yo@n that ship a month, an icebreaker, huh? DAL: I think it was three weeks or a month, something like that. It was a German-made icebreaker that we got from the Dutch. WIN: Do you remember when it was that you arrived in New Guinea? What date? 12 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023428 |
