| Title |
Wayne Kimball, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 28, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 200 |
| Alternative Title |
Wayne Kimball, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kimball, Wayne, 1925-2009 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-03-28 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; India |
| Subject |
Kimball, Wayne, 1925-2009--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (39 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Wayne Kimball on March 28, 2001. This is from tape number 200 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Wayne Kimball (b. 1925) reminisces about growing up in Salt Lake City and working in the family laundry business until Pearl Harbor, when he enlisted in the Air Corps. He went to basic flight training in Bakersfield, California, and was assigned to air transport command, which was an aircraft delivery outfit. He later flew aircraft over "the Hump" from India. 39 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
39 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/s60884j4 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025225 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60884j4 |
| Title |
Page 19 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025202 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNE KIMBALL MARCH 28, 2001 They took half of our class, which included me, and assigned us to the air transport command, which was a downgrade as far as I was concerned because the assignment of those individuals was to deliver aircraft, any and every place, and so I was assigned back to Santa Ana, not the same airbase, but an airbase adjacent to the town of Santa Ana and from there I flew a lot of different kind of aircraft. People would buy the airplane in Texas, pick it up in California and fly it to wherever they purchased it in Texas. And I was also, as a co-pilot because-you have to be checked out in each aircraft. So I flew a B-26 bomber down into Mississippi; I flew a C-54 four-engine aircraft from Santa Ana up to San Francisco and that was what I did. But the next big assignment was to fly copilot in a C-46 over to Biac off the coast ofNew Guinea. And Walker Pierce, I was assigned to, he was much older-like twenty-six, but to me at the time that was much older- ! was about nineteen. So we took off the first time, it was either Christmas or New Years, and we were assigned to start out and we got out over the Pacific and we were called back because the weather turned bad in Hawaii. We only had just enough gas to get that far-it was like a ten-hour flight, something like that. Walker Pierce had flown as a civilian for the airlines so he was very knowledgeable. It was a real blessing for me to have that opportunity to fly with him. About a week later we took off again for Hawaii and we had a navigator with us, his first over-water flight. He would say, "Contact the other plane and see what their headings are." By the time we saw Hawaii, I was a nervous wreck (laughs). This guy was not sure where we were going. But we hit Hawaii and we flew, and I can't remember the exact sequence, but we flew from Hawaii down to Christmas Island, to Johnson Island, Tarawa Island-forgot. But we ended up finally in New Guinea and we were told to fly just off the deck because the Japanese had New 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60884j4/1025202 |
