| 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 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025394 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS ovember 11, 2004 DAN: Can you be in ROTC and the National Guard at the same time? BILL: That's right. Yes, you could. They never asked me whether I was in both of them but there were several other people that were in ROTC at the university, but they were also in the National Guard. And they didn't interfere at all. In those days-I was in the National Guard for three years, and we were never called out for the duty that they're being called out for today all the time. You just couldn't do it today. If you're in the National Guard you have to expect to be called to active duty. But in those days we had a summer camp we had to go to. But the summer camp was at a different time from the CMTC, so I could go to both summer camps at different times. So it worked out very well. DAN: At some point they used to call the National Guard the State Guard. BILL: Well, I think that that was during the war because during World War II they called up all the guards. In fact, the National Guard I was with was the 145th Field Artillery, Battery A. It was in Salt Lake. And they had other batteries in different places around. And they would-right after the war started-I mean after the war in Europe started, and way before we got into the war, they were starting to build up the army. And one of the first things they did was to start calling on the National Guard. And the unit that I was with in the National Guard was called in, but by that time I was out, and I had gone. But it was called to active duty about September of 1940, and it stayed on active duty. And it went all the way down through New Guinea, and the Philippines, and places like that. And they-well, I guess it wasn't really until about '46 that they were released. But during that time then the governor had nothing to call on for other emergencies that 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025394 |
