| 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 38 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025221 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNE KIMBALL MARCH 28, 2001 about this fellow who wanted to sell a Cessna 210, which I took and flew it and borrowed it to see what it was like. I thought it would be nice to have a plane. That week I was playing racquetball with some fellows and got hit in the eye. I got a detached retina and I was laying in the hospital for about ten days, over Christmas. I said to myself, I said, "Self, if you bought an airplane, where would you go?" I just decided it was plain foolishness. I'd just be paying for hanger fees and I said no. And then there were two fellows at the rotary club that were commercial pilots, both of them got killed, from their own planes, doing dumb things. So I didn't buy a plane. BBL: That's too bad. WAY: So I have not flown much. I flew a little bit, took my wife out and stuff, to just show-that's all. BBL: World War II? WAY: Looking back, how do you feel about your military experience during It was not bad. It was long. And then I did not have anguish or discontentment, or anything like that. I think flying was entertaining enough that I didn't have boredom. There was always something, someplace I was going or such. BBL: You didn't ever get shot at? WAY: No. Well as we flew over the Hump, the Japanese were down there, but I don't think we were shot at then at all. They were probably busy enough without worrying about us flying overhead. No, to me the good Lord was looking out for Wayne Kimball, even though initially I felt disappointed because I thought we would be on the ground around Texas, to check out in P-47s, but that isn't what happened. In fact, when we graduated we were supposed to fly B-40s and they brought in a bunch of Chinese 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60884j4/1025221 |
