| Title |
Jay Layton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 12, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 401 |
| Alternative Title |
Jay Layton, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Layton, Jay, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-07-12 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Hawaii; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Layton, Jay, 1925- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Radio operators--Biography |
| Keywords |
Radio technicians |
| Description |
Transcript (52 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Jay Layton on July 12, 2001. This is from tape number 401 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jay Layton (b. 1925) enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and was trained as a radio technician. He was assigned to a communications station in Hawaii. He was discharged in March 1945. 52 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
52 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/s6gb438n |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; Radio operators |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024675 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb438n |
| Title |
Page 4 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024624 |
| OCR Text |
Show .J y L BBL: J Y: BBL: JAY: BBL: JAY: BBL: at the time? JAY: Uintah ch L wa that wa an 1 m ntary ch I? That was an elementary sch ol. Is that where you went to elementary? Uh-huh. Yeah. All your elementary years there? All my ele1nentary years there. .J Y 12, 200 I "K" through sixth, well, maybe not sixth. Was your mother working No. My mother was not working. She worked before she got married. She worked for the Nabisco Biscuit Company, but after she got married, she didn't work. BBL: And looking backward, then, who were the first people of your fatnily to come over to America? Was it way, way back, or was it pretty recent? JAY: No, the first people that came along were my mother's father came over as a young man and I guess he was, what, in his late teens, early twenties when he came over. And my mother's mother's fmnily were the Pettits, and they cmne overwell, I don't know-the 1600s. So they were one of the early ones here. I've heard say that they came over on the Mayflower, but I don't know. BBL: And you said your mother's father came over when he was a teenager? JAY: Yeah. BBL: Was that from England? JAY: Yeah, from England, uh-huh. Then on my father 's side, my father's mother came over from England when she was probably a teenager, something like that. I 2 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb438n/1024624 |
