| Title |
Royce Flandro, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, March 21, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 2 & 3 |
| Alternative Title |
Royce Flandro, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Flandro, Royce P. (Royce Pendleton), 1922- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-03-21 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Algeria; Italy; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Flandro, Royce P. (Royce Pendleton), 1922- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Artillery operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
ROTC |
| Description |
Transcript (44 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Royce Flandro on March 21, 2000. These are tape numbers 2 and 3 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Flandro (b. 1922) was in the ROTC at the University of Utah. He was called to active duty in 1943. He discusses his training in an artillery unit, and serving in North Africa and Italy. 44 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s6j69g4j |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Artillery--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025122 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j |
| Title |
Page 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025092 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21, 2000 We learned gunnery. We learned how to work in a fire direction center. So we were learning new things with both some new equipment and some old equipment. So we got some good training during that time. And, of course, the new close order drill, the extended order drill. So the curriculum was good. We were ready for the war. Of course, right after we were all inducted we were sent to various places to get basic training. It was kind of odd that in that group many of us had had ROTC. It was odd that they would send us to basic training, but I guess that was their policy. We were really ready for other things, but we took basic training. I was glad to be sent to Camp Hood, Texas, in the tank destroyers. There I learned about tanks and anti-tank warfare, and laying mines and munitions. Then we had commando tactics. We learned commando tactics where we had to be prepared to enter in behind enemy lines and get into their tank parks, and destroy their tanks right in their tank parks, then how to get out safely and defend ourselves and that kind of thing. So we got that kind of training at Camp Hood. WINN: This would have been spring of 1943. ROYCE: Yes, that was 1943. We finished up, I guess, sometime in June. WINN: Then after Fort Hood training where did you go? ROYCE: After Camp Hood (it is now Fort Hood) they had this policy for the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). They realized they needed more technically trained soldiers. So they figured, "We've got a lot of these people now in training, so let's get them where they get more training as we'll need them down the road." So they started that ASTP program. I think the navy had a similar program. So for one month after basic training we were sent to Texas A&M University where they had kind of a staging area for people who were going into this. When I was classified--I wanted to go into medical--but I was classified in engineering. After all the different tests and so forth, they put me in intensive engineering. So after a month there we were sent to Pasadena Junior College in Pasadena, and we had 15 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025092 |
