| 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 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025417 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS November 11,2004 BILL: You're thinking of the LST, landing ship tanks, and ... DAN: Yes. Well, the troop ship itself-was it a former liner, you know, a passenger ship that they'd converted? Was it a navy ship, or ... ? BILL: No, it was called the Adabelle Lykes I remember. It was a converted cargo ship. DAN: Okay. BILL: And it was about 10,000 tons. Now, that's a small ship now days, 10,000 tons. But they had it done over as a troop ship just like this-in a room this size they would put 15 people here. DAN: Just stack them up. BILL: (Laughing) just stack them up. And it wasn't very much fun. And it was hotter than blazes. And I remember going down there. Right at the first, when we got started, the men were getting sick all over the place. And as they would-we had to have our own men running the mess halls. And they had the mess halls way down about the third floor down there. And it was "Hot". It was hotter than blazes. And the guys would go through the thing with their mess kits out, and they would plop stuff on there like that (demonstrating). Then suddenly a guy would get sick and "Bloah", right there. And then you'd just have to clean it up and ... it's not fun being on a troop trip, I'll tell you. DAN: No, it sounds awful. BILL: It's no ocean cruise. DAN: It just sounds terrible. BILL: But we were very happy to get off that ship after our long trip in it. DAN: How long did it take? Did you disembark from San Francisco? 28 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025417 |
