| Title |
Robert Howard, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 25, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 447 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert M. Howard, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Howard, Robert M., 1922- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-04-25 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Australia; Philippines; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Howard, Robert M., 1922- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Aviation mechanics (Persons)--Biography |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps; Aircraft mechanics |
| Description |
Transcript (41 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Robert M. Howard on April 25, 2002. This is from tape number 447 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Howard (b. 1922) talks about family life and growing up in the Depression. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps and was inducted in 1942, taking his basic traing at Miami Beach, Florida. Having had pre-war experience as an aircraft mechanic, he was assigned to the Mobile Air Depot at Buckley Field near Mobile, Alabama. He was shipped to the Pacific in 1943 and describes being on the USS Sea Corporal when it was attacked by a Japanese submarine. He was assigned to bases in Australia, the Philipines, and also served on a small airstrip on Horn Island. 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/s6x08680 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Aviation mechanics (Persons) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023835 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x08680 |
| Title |
Page 40 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023832 |
| OCR Text |
Show RO are unb li v bl · th y r just th b t b au h r c d u t th got stories of racing down the dirt roads when th y w r just dirt. other- it's been in the paper about-he s just got a r ally gr at t ry. BBL: Really? That's cool. JEA: Yeah. He's got great stories. th t n i h 1 ROB: Yeah, it's a lot of fun, motorcycles. It s still a lot of fun. Motorcycling right now is a little more hazardous than in my day. Now that the traffic's so heavy you've got to be pretty alert to keep from getting smeared. JEA: Yeah, those crotch rockets are just unbelievable; nineteen-year-olds on crotch rockets that are just a whole other story. ROB: Her husband has a big Harley; they ride all over hell. JEA: That's how we got into it, through his history. Though he forbade me to date anybody on a motorcycle, which is very wise (laughs). ROB: I'll tell you, daggone motorcycles, I had a daggone Indian Chief, it was a real goer. What had actually happened is it was a factory racer was sent out through the local Indian shop and an old gentleman named Roy Shafer owned this bike. It was called a Bonneville Indian Chief and it had a competition engine. So when Mr. Shafer passed away, Johnny Lelis and Frankie Plot are a couple of my associates, they cannibalized this Bonneville, they took the engine out and put a stock engine back in it, see? The business, who took over the business, they didn't know the difference between a Bonneville engine and a stock engine. Anyway, they put this Bonneville engine in a thirty-five frame and Johnny Lelis rode it. Well, John Lelis, he gets flacked and he kept running into things (laughs). So when I got out of the army, this Chief was all mashed to 39 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x08680/1023832 |
