| 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 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025419 |
| OCR Text |
Show COL. WILLIAM F. ROOS ovember 11, 2004 BILL: Oh, yeah; a little better for the officers. But as we moved further to the north in Guam there was just nothing but dense jungle, and still just teeming with J aps. And we ran into the Japanese soldiers everyday, almost everyday. And they mostly tried to stay away from us because, by that time, they were getting hungry. And they didn't have anyway to replace their weapons, or anything like that. So they were in bad shape themselves. DAN: Had they basically been abandoned? BILL: Well, there was no way that they could not be abandoned because there was no way that the Japanese could resupply because our navy was wandering around out there, and there was no possibility that they could be resupplied. DAN: Oh, so, they were trapped there? BILL: Oh, yes. They were done for. DAN: But they wouldn't surrender? BILL: They wouldn't surrender. No, they wouldn't surrender. And they fought to the last guy practically. We actually set up a POW cage, and it looked as if they had about 15 or 20 in there. Most of them had been wounded, and had been patched up by our medical people. They were certainly treated better than American prisoners captured in the Philippines. They had little gardens and raised their own vegetables. DAN: So when you say we ran into them. BILL: Our men. DAN: Yeah. You mean, an exchange of gunfire? BILL: Yeah. Yeah, quite often. 30 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2ftg/1025419 |
