| Title |
Gerald W. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 19, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 437 |
| Alternative Title |
Gerald W. Smith, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Smith, Gerald W., 1919-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-03-19 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Globe, Gila County, Arizona, United States; New Caledonia; San Francisco, California, United States |
| Subject |
Smith, Gerald W., 1919-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; United States--Army--Hospital Corps |
| Keywords |
Hospital Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Gerald W. Smith on March 19, 2001. This is from tape number 437 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Gerald Smith was born in 1919 in Snowflake, Arizona. He worked at the family dairy until joining the Army Air Corps in January 1942. He washed out of pilot training due to airsickness and enlisted in the Navy, serving as a hospital corpsman with Mobile Unit 7 in New Caledonia. He then trained other corpsman in San Francisco. He was discharged in December 1945. 47 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
47 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/s6rn572k |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; United States. Army. Hospital Corps |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023939 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn572k |
| Title |
Page 3 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023891 |
| OCR Text |
Show THIS IS AN INTERVIEW WITH GERALD SMITH ON MARCH 19, 2002. THE INTERVIEWER IS BECKY B. LLOYD. THIS IS THE PROJECT " A VI TH LEGACY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF UTAH'S WORLD WAR II VETERAN ' TAPE NO. 437. BEC: This is an interview with Gerald Smith at his home in Salt Lake City Utah. Today's date is March 19, 2002. This is part of the Saving the Legacy project. My name is Becky Lloyd. Gerald, let's start with when and where you were born. GER: I was born in Snowflake, Arizona, 14th of March, 1919. I was born in an adobe house. BEC: You just had a birthday. GER: Yes, last Thursday (laughs). I was eighty-three. I told everybody I was only thirty-eight. 'Course, they didn't believe me. BEC: (laughs) In Snowflake, Arizona. What was your family doing in Snowflake? GER: That's where my dad and mother lived and their parents lived and my dad's grandfather, JesseN. Smith, was sent there to help settle it. He was the stake president for about twenty-five years and he was a cousin to the prophet, a full cousin, and knew the prophet-or met him because he's only about, what, the prophet died in 1844 and my great-grandpa was born in 1834. So he was only ten. But the prophet knew him and in his life history and stuff it tells about how he remembers the prophet and the prophet remembered him. But he drove John Smith's-who was the uncle to the prophet, a brother to his dad-wagon out to Salt Lake City. He was only about, what, thirteen or fourteen because he was born in ' 34. But, anyway, they settled in Pioneer Park first then I think they went up to the Mill Creek area, then they went in to the Bountiful area. Then |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn572k/1023891 |
