| 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 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025105 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21, 2000 been doing recon work for, I got him to go up on the OP with me. We got into a regular fire fight. They saw us, and they saw the radio on my back, and that is what they really wanted to get. They were with burp guns (a rapid fire machine pistol). We were looking out over this edge like this, and there were trees like this. And they burped the guns right across us like that, and the leaves just fell down around us. The executive officer was sitting right here, and I was sitting there, and we were out on a point. They really had us pegged. Soon after that some mortar fire started coming in. He got real scared and took off and ran back into a defilade position back there. He was lying on his back kind oflike this without his weapon. He had a tommy gun, and I just had my little carbine because I had a radio on my back. He had left his tommy gun. And I grabbed it and took it back there. And I slammed that thing down on him and just hit him like that. I said, "Man, you keep that weapon with you when you are up here. We could very well get into a worse fire fight. You are going to need that." I really bawled him out. Anyway, we went back to the guns, and the very next day they promoted me to corporal. I don't know whether they had a position or not, but they did it anyway on the TO even though they didn't have a position. Over time they promoted me to buck sergeant and then to staff sergeant. I had those because those positions opened when people would get killed off. You asked about 1944. At the end of 1944 we had to the rear area back to Montecatini for R & R--not far from Pisa and Livorno. Montecatini was a nice resort area. Then we went back on the front. Right after we got back on the front I got hepatitis-something I got back in the rear area. I was pretty fastidious with my K-rations and C-rations. I traded my stuff. I was anxious to get the candy and the lemonade, and I traded all my other stuff for that. Anyway, so I ate right. When it comes to food, I want to say two things about the food on the front. People would go without here in the United States. "You can't have turkey this Thanksgiving. It has all got to go to the troops overseas." Overseas the cooks (often shell-shocked Gls ), didn't put the turkey in soon enough, and they served it anyway. It was essentially raw when they served it. At least 28 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025105 |
