| Title |
Wes Nordgren, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 23, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 645 |
| Alternative Title |
Wes Nordgren, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Nordgren, Wes, 1922-2015 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-02-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States; Florida, United States |
| Subject |
Nordgren, Wes, 1922-2015--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American |
| Description |
Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Wes Nordgren on February 23, 2004. This is from tape number 645 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Nordgren (b. 1922) joined the Navy early in 1941. He recounts the story of the rescue of a paratrooper whose chute had caught on the tail of a DC-3. He describes his flight training, meeting and marrying his wife, and his postwar service in the Reserves, and being a flight controller. 26 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
26 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/s65f0r30 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023473 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65f0r30 |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023450 |
| OCR Text |
Show WES ORDGRE BR R 23,2 4 it was First North then, just west of First West. Since they changed the street number it hard to keep track of them. Then I went to West High School. BEC: Were you involved in extracurricular activities at West High School? WES: No, in the ROTC was all there. Nothing extra at all. I had a paper route, so that took up my time after school. Then when I went into the Navy, I started out in San Diego at the Naval Training Station as a boot seaman, they call it. BEC: I'm sorry to interrupt you again. You say you joined the Navy in January of 1941 when you were old enough to join. WES: That's correct. BEC: Now the United States was not involved in the war at that time. WES: No. That was almost a year prior to the war. But the draft was going on at that time. I figured as soon as I was eighteen they'd probably draft me and I'd go into the Army, and I didn't want to go into the Army; I wanted to go into the Navy. BEC: So maybe being in ROTC, you must have been aware that most of the rest of the world was at war during that time, even though the United States wasn't officially in yet. WES: Yes. BEC: So your motivation for joining, then, was because you figured it was inevitable and you would pick what service you wanted. WES: That's right. BEC: So as soon as you were old enough you joined the Navy, and you said that you went to San Diego and were a boot seaman. WES: That's right. Of course, at that time, we were making the big sum of twenty-one dollars a day, once a month-in other words, twenty-one dollars a month-until we got 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65f0r30/1023450 |
