| 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 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025107 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21, 2000 WINN: It hadn't moved? ROYCE: It was the frrst position we had been into after we had been on a rest. We went up there, and that was the position we would hold during the worst of the winter. We weren't trying to move. They would pot -shot us from the top of the mountains, and we would take potshots at them from down below-back and forth. And that's the way it went that winter. So I didn't miss an awful lot. Later, we had to fight the Germans off and out of those mountains. But there was a girl that I was associated with there and her name was Angelina. There were three families living in this farm house, and I enjoyed going in and visiting with that family. We sat around there and roasted chestnuts, and I enjoyed her. All this was before I went to the hospital. When I came back she was gone, and they said that she had stepped on a mine. WINN: Oh, boy. ROYCE: We were north ofLa Guardia--north ofFlorence at that time going up Highway 64. So I got a leave, and I went back. I had two days that they let me go back to Florence. And I spent one full day with the five different civilian hospitals looking for Angelina. I really liked her. We didn't have any "Mickey Mouse" or any of that stuff. I just enjoyed her family and all of that, you know. It was really good, but I didn't ever see her again. She wasn't in any of those hospitals. That's just another little aside. So then I came back, and we were in the attack up through the Apennines and going down to the Po Valley. As we went down into the Po Valley we had to move fast. We divided our six guns into two units of three guns. This corporal and I were the forward observers. He would work with that unit, and I would work with my unit, and the rest of the outfit just took care of the ammunition, finding new position, and moving forward. But instead of having them run the commands through the fire direction center, we made those calculations right there because both of us knew fire directions work. We also knew forward OP work. He kept his three guns going, and I kept my three guns going, and we just leapfrogged. We would just leapfrog. And we kept 30 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025107 |
