| 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 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023899 |
| OCR Text |
Show G RALD MITH R H 19 2002 because I was too little for everything else. My senior year I tried out for bask tball because I really loved it and my dad put up a basketball standard in the front of the hou and we always had a bunch of kids over, Mormon kids, mostly. We played basketball especially on Sunday afternoon, because church, we had in those days, you had Sunday school and then Priesthood and Relief Society, then you had sacrament meeting at night, seven-thirty at night. So we had plenty of time in the afternoon. Of course, we had to milk cows and we had to deliver the milk before church or sacrament meeting. Anyway, I was too little for sports but I got to see all the games because I was in the band. BEC: Oh, yeah. GER: Yes, I played in the orchestra and the band and sang in the choir; I was in a quartet my senior year and sang at one of the dances at the senior dance. BEC: What instruments did you play? GER: (laughs) Well, I played the violin. I think I played it for about four, five, six years. But I started taking lessons but I wasn't good. I couldn't get the different, what do they call them, the thirds and fifths and all that stuff on the neck. I never did get into that. I just played second fiddle. BEC: What did you play in the band? GER: Then I started on the trombone and I played it for just a few months and then, I don't know whether he said your lips are quite big and you like music, so I'm going to put you in the bass section, you can play a tuba. You know what that is? BEC: Oh, yeah. GER: And then I was changed to a Sousaphone, which has a big bell wrapped around you and way up here. And I played that. Of course, marching downtown 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rn572k/1023899 |
