| 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 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024632 |
| OCR Text |
Show .J Y L YTO J Y: .J y 12,2001 And I can kind f ee th ir i wp int, b cau e they th ught, ell i r I wa n radio work I wouldn't be on the front lines wh r a if I \\ it d- , r lu tantl )', they sign doff. BBL: JAY: BBL: JAY: BBL: JAY: And you took off. Yeah. Gone in a hurry. So you signed here in Salt Lake. Where did you go from there? From Salt Lake, here, I went up to Farrigut, Idaho. Farrigut? I've never heard of that. Farrigut, Idaho, is a navy base they put together really quick. It was a training station that was just outside of Spokane, Washington. It was up by Lake Pend Oreille. I can't remember the name of the little town that was by there. But it was a beautiful part of the country, but in the wintertilne it was awfully cold. But when I went up there it was the first of May and it was quite nice. BBL: And you stayed up there for how long? JAY: I was up at Ferrigut for two months and then we supposedly graduated, if you want to call it that. But there they gave us all kinds of training and do you want to know anything about our training? BBL: Yes, I do. So this was when you first shipped out, you went up to Farrigut and it was a radio, or electronics-? JAy: No it was a-Farrigut, Idaho, was a basic training station where they sent all the new recruits. And at that station they trained them in the basics of seamanship, well just navy procedures and all. It was there where they taught us how to jump off of a ship. They had some swimming pools there and they had at least thirty 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb438n/1024632 |
