| 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 13 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025400 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROO BILL: Flirtation Walk. DAN: I'm not familiar with that one. ovember 11 20 4 BILL: Well, it was a musical about West Point. And there is a walk called flirtation walk. DAN: At West Point? BILL: At West Point. And it's just below the parade ground. And it's a beautiful walk right down there by the Hudson River. And it's very secluded. And there is a sign on each end-Cadets and Their Guests Only. So even officers were not supposed to go down there on Flirtation Walk. And it was, as you might suspect, a place where there was a lot of flirtation go1ng on. And there was one place-they even had the walk down there-and just before it gets to the river there's a great big rock that hangs out. It must be about, oh, six or eight feet, and it hangs out over the little walkway. And that's called the kissing rock. And the story that all the cadets tell their girlfriends when they take them down there is, "Look, you know, if a girl refuses to allow the boy to kiss her the whole rock will fall down. Now, that's been standing there for a long time now. You wouldn't want to have that fall down on you, would you?" DAN: That's a great gimmick. BILL: So that's the kind of story that ... DAN: This sounds like an Errol Flynn movie BILL: Yeah, yeah. But I had been thinking about West Point, and trying to get an appointment. At that time most nominations to West Point had to come from a senator or congressman. The competition out there in Salt Lake for an appointment to West Point was just fierce, just 11 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025400 |
