| 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 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023438 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST June 23,2000 WIN: I went over one summer to teach there again. While I was at Boulder working on my degree I taught half time. I took a full load of my doctoral work. I did three classes by home study from theY. I taught Sunday School. I tutored a" to-be" All American football player. I did that all the time. I was also helping my thesis chairman, my doctors chairman, to supervise the student teachers. So I was quite busy. The last part of the summer, before I came home, they called me in and said, "Look, we've just found out what you've been doing. From now on you can only take half a load on your doctors degree. Half a load, no more." Well, I said, "Can I finish this term?" WIN: So they gave you an ultimatum, but let you finish all you had to do before that ultimatum took effect? DAL: Well, they didn't know that, but that's what they did. WIN: What was your dissertation topic? DAL: I made a study of the English teaching program at universities around here, and elsewhere (I went to California a couple of time), but it was what they were doing to train English teachers. I felt that we were not doing as well as we should. After I went through all this I concocted a new course called the Composite English Major. It was mostly English, but with a little speech, and so on, to bring this all together. I set that up. That became so popular with the ones who were prepaJing for teaching that we had a lot of other students in the composite. I took over the supervision of student teachers in English from the Department of Education, the College of Education. WIN: AtBYU? DAL: At BYU. They didn't like it, especially when fewer students trained to teach. Fewer and 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023438 |
