| 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 28 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023442 |
| OCR Text |
Show DALE H. WEST June 23,2000 to visit, to go with him on Sundays, and so on. WIN: That was quite a coincidence. Now you were affiliated with what unit? Were you with the air corps, or were you with the army? DAL: I was in the army air force. It was what my label was. We were attached to the 13th Air Force. WIN: So you were in the air corps, or the air force, depending on when they changed the nomenclature. Did you come back feeling like you accomplished your goals, as far as your military assignments? DAL: Yes, I think we did well. I think we did very well. WIN: It sounds like you had a very influential role, actually. DAL: I don't think we won the war, but I think we shortened it from what we did. WIN: That's good. And, certainly, yours was an important mission. You even had a few bombs fall on you. You didn't get the brunt of the fight, but it certainly was an influential part in the war. DAL: We were always behind. Well, on Morotai we had the landing strip there. We had two landing strips, and we were living right in-between. And that's where the bombing was. They didn't hit us. It was quite a frightening thing to land there Christmas Eve and have that happen. We heard fire, _gunfire, all the time because we just held that part of Morotai. We didn't know the other part that the Japanese held. Then we went up to Leyte. I remember flying over Mindanao, and they shot at us. I was in a B-25 then. Most of the time we were in C-47s. That would be the transportation plane. WIN: The B-2.5 was just a two engine bomber? 26 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sx8cdx/1023442 |
