| 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 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023436 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST you letters daily? June 23, 2000 DAL: Quite often. It was hard. Well, when the war was over I got a letter form her saying that the doctor had said she had to have an operation immediately. Somebody had told her maybe the Red Cross would let me come home a little early. So I asked to have it done. And they sent word back to Pleasant Grove, and a Pleasant Grove person went to the doctor, and the doctor said that it was not that bad. So I didn't get to come home early. The day I got home he sent word to me that she had to have it immediately. She had ovarian cysts, and had to have operations. She had been with me quite a bit during the war. When I was learning Morse code she came back to Kansas City for a week, and brought our daughter, who was just three months old when I went into the service. She joined me again when I was sent on to California. She had a relative, an aunt, who had a good friend in Fresno. They set it up so she could come down and stay with that friend, a widow. I stayed there one night, and then we got a place where I could live off the base. So we did that. It was a fellow in Payson who owned the house in Fresno. Then we got into the government buildings until just before-it was the last of October. WIN: So you were overseas just over a year? So you just had the one child then, and then when you canie back? DAL: Yes. WIN: You eventually got back to the United States, and landed, after sitting in a harbor for five days just after Christmas in '45. You got on a train and came back to Utah. What did you do then? DAL: Well, they didn't release me because they said I had some dental problems, among other things. So I had to go back and forth for a while. I had a tooth that hadn't come down, and this one 20 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023436 |
