| Title |
Dale Ellis, North Ogden, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 16, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 636 |
| Alternative Title |
Dale Ellis, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Ellis, Dale, 1922-2014 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-07-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Marshall Islands; Tulagi, Solomon Islands; Palau; Japan; North Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Ellis, Dale, 1922-2014--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Minesweepers; Radar operators; Sonar operators |
| Description |
Transcript (41 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Dale Ellis on July 16, 2003. This is from tape number 636 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mr. Ellis (b. 1922) recalls his childhood in North Ogden. He worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad prior to enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1943 and was assigned to the minesweeper U.S.S. Perry, on which he was a radar/sonar operator. After the Perry was hit by a mine and sunk, Ellis was reassigned to an aircraft carrier. He finished out the war in various places in the Pacific, including Okinawa and Tokyo. 41 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
41 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/s63r2s3n |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023516 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63r2s3n |
| Title |
Page 36 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023509 |
| OCR Text |
Show D L L I th n tim that I did ace pt it and lock d it in my 1 r th t 1 t r it went down with the ship. o it s still sa£ . BEC: It's too bad that the guy who went back and found th hip didn t brin 11th t money up. DAL: Oh, he'd have had a hard time getting down there and finding anything I m ur . BEC: We were talking before the tape started about one of your shipmate who wa n the destroyer with you, who went back just a few years ago and found the wreck. I just wanted to say that on the tape, so people will know what we're talking about. He d gone back there and found the site and found the wreck. DAL: Yes, he'd been interested in that and had been interested in that for quite a long time, for some reason. There are some people over there and apparently they hire over in that area, there on certain islands, to do certain things and I think he had somebody helping him locate that. It took him quite a while, because you can imagine the bottom of the ocean and trying to find something. BEC: That's amazing that he found it. DAL: Well, it was and he searched quite a while, I think, and on our records, and I have the records down there about longitude and latitude and so forth, when we were sunk, where we were located, at least he had that idea. But in the ocean; that's a lot of area to worry about. BEC: After you were in Tokyo getting repairs for a few days and unloading, you came back? DAL: We just came back to the States. I was just trying to think where it was that we came back to, last. I was released even. I don't even know if I had the record on that 35 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63r2s3n/1023509 |
