| 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 21 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023435 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST June 23, 2000 DAL: I think they did a good job for not knowing what we were really going to do. I don't think they knew what they were training us for, but we did get good training. WIN: You had good training at least in Morse code, and then interpretation and translation of Japanese. Japanese is a pretty difficult language. I'm amazed that you could do so well in such a short time. DAL: Well, they were using numbers, and that's the thing that we could handle. One of the people that I got to know well, and liked, gave me a code book to take home. He and the others had all signed it as a gift to me and goodbye. I just didn't want to take all that stuff home, so I just took the cover off and threw the rest away. I wish I'd kept it. WIN: Yeah. That would be a treasure, wouldn't it? DAL: Yeah, it would have been. End of side 1 of tape 1 DAL: A helicopter landed by our outfit one day. And I took my camera and got a picture of it. We .. could send a picture home, but we could not mention it in our letters. It was a very inconsistent kind of thing. WIN: That's true. Well, we were just mentioning, before we had the tape problem, that you had a helicopter land near you. Was that in the Pacific, or one of those islands, and was it the first time you had ever seen a helicopter? DAL: I believe so. I don't remember. WIN: You could send a picture home, but you couldn't mention that you had seen it. That's kind of interesting how things were. How did your wife endure the separation and the war? Did she send 19 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023435 |
