| Title |
Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267 |
| Alternative Title |
Lee S. Manwill, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Manwill, Lee S., 1916-2008 |
| Contributor |
Kelly, Luke; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-07-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England, United Kingdom; New York City, New York, United States; Virginia, United States; North Carolina, United States; Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Manwill, Lee S., 1916-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Radio operators--Biography |
| Keywords |
radio operator; Governor's Island; Officer Candidate School; Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (30 pages) of an interview by Luke Kelly with Lee S. Manwill on July 11, 2001. This is from tape number 267 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Lee Manwill (b. 1916) ran movie projectors and served an LDS mission to England before being drafted into the Army in 1941. He served as a radio operator at Governor's Island, New York, before completing Officer Candidate School and joining the Army Air Corps. He then served in Virginia and North Carolina, retiring in 1945 as a Captain. 30 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
30 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/s6z91bnb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Radio operators |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025075 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z91bnb |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025048 |
| OCR Text |
Show Lee Man will J ul 11 200 l floor, and I forgot to let go of it. And I landed on my head on that c ncr t . nd, f course, I was unconscious for awhile. I do remember some fellow and I can't r n1 n1b r his name, that had come along. And he picked me up and carried me hmne with my sist r walking along side. Lot's of weird things happened. I went to school at the Lincoln School in the first grade. They didn't have kindergarten in those days. Since I already knew how to read, and everything the teacher at the end of the school year promoted me to the third grade. So we went to a different school, and we'd moved to another part of town. I went to the Pershing School. And I went there in the third grade, but I skipped the second. Anyway, a couple of my buddies that were in the fourth or fifth grades-older fellows that kind of took a liking to me, and they came from good families-decided to sluff school one day. And they asked me if I wanted to play hooky with them. And I said, "What's that?" And they explained it to me, and so I did. But there was a canal close by, a big irrigation canal. And these boys got an old barn door, and some timbers, and fastened them together and made a raft. And I went with them rafting up and down that canal. I couldn't swim a lick, and it's a miracle that I didn't die. I remember going rafting up and down that canal. And I think we did that the day we played hooky too. Anyway, they weren't really a bad influence. They were good kids. L UK: Any other stories? LEE: This town ofNafwhere I was born-! guess I was maybe five years old-and my 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6z91bnb/1025048 |
