| 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 25 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023439 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST June 23, 2000 fewer went into it, and they wanted them all back. We had hung onto it. When I retired I had worked with two or three other professors, and I stayed on part-time for two years to transfer it to them. WIN: After you finished your doctors degree, then you just came full-time to B YU and stayed there the rest of your career? DAL: Yes. WIN: Did you have more children? DAL: We had the one child before I went into the service, and my wife's operation was said to be the end of anymore children. They removed one of the ovaries, trimmed the other, and said there would be no more children. Well, seven years after the first, we had the second. They called him a miracle child. It could never happen, but it did. Then it happened again. Seven years later we had our third one. WIN: Oh, really? Fourteen years between first and third. Good things come in sevens, I guess. You had three children then? DAL: Three children. WIN: And you raised them here in Provo? DAL~ One child, the oldest, is in Salt Lake teaching kindergarten at the Butler Grade School. She has received the state recognition for excellence. The second was a boy-and he went through the Y -worked for ElM CO, a mechanical engineering firm, as a draftsman for a while. Then they brought in women because they were being caught for not hiring enough women. They were the ones in charge, but they didn't know what they 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023439 |
