| Title |
Col. William F. Roos, Springfield, Virginia: an interview by Professor Daniel McCool: Saving the legacy oral history |
| Alternative Title |
William F. Roos, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Roos, William F., 1919-2008 |
| Contributor |
McCool, Daniel, 1950- ; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-11-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Guam, Mariana Islands; Germany; Korea; Vietnam; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Roos, William F., 1919-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Military engineers--Biography |
| Keywords |
ROTC; West Point; Engineers; Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (75 pages) of an interview by Daniel McCool with Col. William F. Roos on November 11, 2004. This is from the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Roos (b. 1919) reminisces about his childhood and education in Utah, including his ROTC experience. He was attending West Point when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he speaks at length about his experiences there. He was assigned to an engineering unit with the responsibility for turning the island of Guam into a military base. After the war he transferred to the Army Air Corps and earned a masters degree in civil engineering from the University of Iowa. He later served in Germany, Korea, Vietnam, and the Central Pacific. 75 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
75 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/s6vx2ftg |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military engineers |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025465 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg |
| Title |
Page 4 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025391 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS November 11, 2004 product of half Swede, a quarter English, and a quarter Danish. And I grew up in alt Lake. My high school was the South High School in Salt Lake. And, as a matter of fact we were out there about three or four years ago. Our high school had been built, oh, just about four years before I entered high school. It was during the Depression. But they scraped together enough good materials and everything that they were able to make a real beautiful high school. And that would have been in about 1931 maybe, right during the Depression. Yet that was a beautiful high school. And here just a few years ago we went by there, and we drove through-we went to the high school and got out and walked around. And that high school looks as beautiful today as it did there 65 years ago. And it just shows that those people like to take care of good things. And none of this graffiti, and junk like that, that that you see on all this stuff around here. DAN: You know it's a community college now? BILL: Yes. Somebody told me that it had been turned into a community college. Well, you've seen it then? DAN: Yes. I went to a play there last year. BILL: Oh, yeah. DAN: Yes. I've been there several times. And it's still in beautiful condition. BILL: Yes. Well, they believe in keeping it up. DAN: They do. BILL: And I was only 16 when I graduated from high school. DAN: How did you manage to get out early? BILL: Well, they had a-I understand years later, because everybody did it from Salt Lake 2 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025391 |
