| 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 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025095 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21,2000 WINN: You had training in ROTC on that same weapon, right? ROYCE: In ROTC, but not on that weapon. It was a 105, and it was gunnery. It was knowing the mathematics of gunnery and how to handle it with the different charges of rounds and so forth. Anyway, the first one that came to me was the man that was in charge of the aiming circle to lay (survey) the battery; the one that was supposed to orient in all of the six guns. He came to me, and he really wanted me to help him. He asked, "How do you lay the battery?" Here they were getting ready to go into combat, and he didn't even know how to lay the battery with the aiming circle. Anyway, I was able to show him. So I gradually built up a circle of friends because I had some savvy and could help them understand what it was saying in the manuals--even some of the gunnery, but they had done a pretty good job with the cannoneer stuff working with the guns and the ammunition. They were doing a pretty good job with that. But with the gunnery and the forward observers, they didn't know anything about that. All of officers were infantry officers. Some of them were regular army and had been in a long time and wanted to retire. They didn't want to go overseas. The company commander had been assigned simply because he had been to West Point. In West Point they gave them a little survey of all of the different units, so he had a little smattering of artillery. That was the only artillery training he had actually had. He was an infantry officer, basically. He was sort of saddled with having to make this outfit into an artillery outfit. Anyway, we went overseas on a Liberty ship--nineteen days on the water. We zigzagged. We were in a convoy and went through the Straights of Gibraltar and landed in--I remember going through the Straights of Gibraltar. We were excited about the dolphins. We had three dolphins that would go on each side of the ship. They would go on one side. Then they would go down under the keel, and up on the other side, and down under--that sort of stuff. It was so exciting. Anyway, then we went and landed at the port city ofOran, Africa. We were based there 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025095 |
