| 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 33 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025108 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21, 2000 something going all the way down to Bologna, down those mountains that we pushed. Of course, it was a big push to get past the mountains. They were looking down our throats the whole way. Once we got past that, then it was real fast moving on down. We just kept that steady fire going down and out into the Po Valley. In the Po Valley we were still moving fast, and the Germans were starting to really retreat. But there was one whole battalion of Germans that got unified, and they ambushed our unit as we were going across the Po Valley. We were moving fast, and we were on the road. We didn't have our guns in position or anything. We were on the road moving fast up to our next position, and they ambushed us. We got a unit citation for that. We fanned out in position. And these guys had previous infantry training, rifle training, yet they were now artillery men. But they had infantry training. So we fanned out. And we captured a lot of those guys and brought them all in. We got a unit citation for that. Then we went on. And we went up over toward the Brenner Pass. And we wanted to keep the Germans from going back through the Brenner Pass, so we participated in closing that off. Then we were sent over to the border of Yugoslavia to the town ofGorizia, and that's where we were when the war was over. They asked us to go into Yugoslavia, so we went into Yugoslavia. And one day we went down, and we waved to their troops--their troops were there. We were two miles in from the border, and they had blown the roofs off of all of the houses. So there was nothing there for two miles in, but we got in there several miles. We were waving to them, and then they radioed to us and said, "You have got to come back out. You are not supposed to go into Yugoslavia." There could have been a really bad incident there because Tito had his partisans, and they were effective in maintaining the war against the Germans. But now that the war was over the communists were already beginning to take over. And Tito did not want Americans in Yugoslavia. So here we were 31 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025108 |
