| 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 28 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025415 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS November 11, 2004 all lined up. And the engineer soldiers were, first of all, trained as infantrymen. And then after going through infantry training, then they were trained as engineers in their specific speciality such a bulldozer, or crane operators, and all those things like that. DAN: Did you have a speciality at that point? BILL: Well, my speciality was unit commander. That's what-normally, they're called engineer unit commanders, or infantry unit commanders, artillery unit commanders. And I was an engineer unit commander. Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, and all the way up to Colonels could still have the same military occupation specialty. Well, then after that, we went out to the Pacific. If somebody had come to me when we were getting ready to go and said to me, "You know, we'd like to have you stay here on the permanent party. We can fit you in right here, and you don't have to go overseas." I wold have said, "Get lost. This is a chance of a lifetime for me. This is my big adventure, a big adventure." DAN: You wanted to go. BILL: And I think everybody else was in the same boat. That was the big adventure. We wanted to go. DAN: Had you traveled much outside of Utah before you went to West Point? BILL: No. I had been in the National Guard, and had gone down as far as California. DAN: Yeah. Okay. BILL: That's the furthest I had gone. DAN: Okay. BILL: But it was something that~verybody was really ready to go, at least in our unit here. But 26 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025415 |
