| 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 38 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025113 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROYCEFLANDRO March 21, 2000 in the army." I said, "I want to go back to college." So I turned them down. They gave me another promotion over there, and that's what I mustered out on. That's the story as far as rank is concerned. I went back to the university. WINN: Did you get home before your brother? ROYCE: Yes,Ithinkso. Hewasmarried. Hewasmarriedsohewaslivingsomewhere. I don't really know. He didn't ever come back home. He was off somewhere. In terms of the timing, I don't know exactly when it was. I got home in September of 1945, and I was ready to go back to college. WINN: You got home just in time for school here. ROYCE: So I went back to college, and I went back into ROTC, and they made me a cadet colonel. I was the commanding officer of the cadet group. I was there as CO for two years, and then I got my commission. After that I went into the national guard. While finishing college I was an enlisted man, and I became a first sergeant in the "Sound and Flash" unit, an artillery unit in the Utah National Guard. Then I got my commission and was in the national guard. Then I went over into the army reserve and was later mustered out when I went to Indiana for an advanced degree. When I graduated from the University of Utah I became a school teacher. WINN: So you changed your major to education? ROYCE: Yes, to education, and I became a school teacher and a counselor. I went down to Provo, Utah, and taught there. WINN: What subject? ROYCE: I taught history. I was really in social science. I wasn't trained all that well in history, but I had other social sciences. I was teaching history there and learned a lot very fast. WINN: What grades were they? ROYCE: Senior high at Provo High School. The summerthatl graduated in 1948 I went back to--I hitchhiked from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico. I did a lot ofhitchhiking 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69g4j/1025113 |
