| 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 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024631 |
| OCR Text |
Show J L YTO .J y 12 2001 BBL: then I ju t want d t ask y u about ch ling a \\ell. id ) )U participate in any extracurricular activitie -and you said [i tball- and anything ther than that that you were involved in? JAY: I was in track. I ran track and football. I gu ss I was pr tty h a yin spmis because I didn't pay much attention to other kinds of schoolwork. My grad s weren't the best. So I don't know, according to my grades I don't know if I could ve gotten into a regular tech school or not. But, anyway, I n1ade it. BBL: Yeah. You did pass. That's great. And then I wanted to ask you you said this Commander Eddy. Like E-D-D-Y? JAY: Yeah. E-D-D-Y. BBL: Okay, I wanted to make sure I got that right. So you took the test, you were accepted, and then a couple of days after they told you to wait three months, they called you and said, "Come on, we need you to leave in a week." JAY: Yeah. BBL: And you were seventeen at the time. Did you feel young? I mean did you feel like, "Oh my gosh! I'm too young!" JAY: Oh no, I didn't feel young. I felt very capable of whatever. I didn't have any problem. I know my mother did not want to sign the papers giving her approval for me to go in, being seventeen. My father was very reluctant, but he said, "Well, since you had this opportunity to go into radio work and you seem to be interested in that, this might be a good thing to do." BBL: Right. 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb438n/1024631 |
