| Title |
Ray D. Free, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, May 22, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 16 and 17 |
| Alternative Title |
Ray D. Free, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Free, Ray D., 1910-2002 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-05-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; Marshall Islands; Philippines; Japan |
| Subject |
Free, Ray D., 1910-2002--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Artillery operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
7th Division, 57th Field Artillery; Attu; Kwajalein; Leyte; Okinawa |
| Description |
Transcript (55 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Ray D. Free on May 22, 2000. This is from tape numbers 16 and 17 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Free (b. 1910) recalls growing up in the Sugarhouse area of Salt Lake City, describing the effects of the Depression on his family, his many childhood illnesses, and participating in the ROTC. He served an LDS mission to Germany and traveled extensively before coming home to study at the University of Utah and work at the family business, Hygeia Ice Rink. He enlisted in the army in January 1941 and was assigned to the 7th Division, 57th Field Artillery. He participated in combat at Attu, Kwajaalein, Leyte, and Okinawa. After the war he was in the reserves and retired as a Major General. 55 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
55 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/s6b877bd |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Artillery--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025569 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b877bd |
| Title |
Page 47 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025559 |
| OCR Text |
Show RAY D. FREE M 22,2000 WIN: Once you got back, what did you did for a career? RAY: Well, I often laugh and tell people I'm a jack of many trades and a master of nothing. WIN: But you did found a bank. RAY: I went back to the ice business, of course. WIN: The ice business was in decline by this time. RAY: Well, yes, but we survived, and we put in different types, cracked ice and so forth, and peddled it to restaurants and grocery stores and things like that. And then, of course, as time went on I built the ice skating rink. WIN: The Hygeia Ice Skating Rink in Sugarhouse? RAY: Yes. WIN: That was a famous place to go when I was a kid. RAY: It was a great community effort, I thought. We felt like we were doing a community job there. It wasn't tremendously profitable, but we stayed afloat all the time. Made a living out of it, and a few little dividends. Always on the black side of the register. WIN: A good place to be. RAY: And, of course, I became interested in many community things. As president of the Chamber of Commerce in Sugarhouse twice back in those years, I was involved with getting the state to sell the property to the city, although Horace Sorensen was really the 46 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b877bd/1025559 |
