| Title |
Boyd Williams, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 5, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 649 |
| Alternative Title |
Boyd T. Williams, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Williams, Boyd T., 1926- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-05-05 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Okinawa; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Guam; Formosa; Philippines; Ulithi, Caroline Islands, Borneo; Korea; China; Panama |
| Subject |
Williams, Boyd T., 1926- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Radio operators--Biography; Radio, Military |
| Keywords |
Radio operator; Leyte; Manila |
| Description |
Transcript (44 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Boyd Williams on May 5, 2004. This is from tape number 649 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Williams (b. 1926) recalls his childhood in Rigby, Idaho, and describes enlisting in the Navy two days after graduating from high school in May 1944. He was a radio operator on the second Block Island (the first ship of that name had been sunk by a German submarine). He served in Pearl Harbor, Okinawa, Saipan, Guam, Formosa, Leyte, Manila, Ulithi, Borneo, Korea, China, and Panama. 44 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 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/s6p86b54 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Radio, Military; Radio operators |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026027 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p86b54 |
| Title |
Page 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025999 |
| OCR Text |
Show B YD WI LIAM 5,2 4 what you 'r sending is what the offic r giv y u am ag t th r hip . Wh nth admiral was onboard our ship that would be the fleet command and weds nd the am message maybe to all the different ships at th same time. Most the time it was all right but a lot oftin1es, one of them wouldn't receive it and you'd have to repeat it. BEC: I imagine when the admiral was onboard, it got a lot busier. BOY: Yeah, he brought a lot of his own officers onboard with him too. One of the things I didn't like to do, when I was on midnight watch, and I'd usually be the lowest guy there, third class, in the middle of the night sometimes there would be a message come over for the captain. Of course, he's downstairs in his compartment there sound asleep. Somebody has to go down and wake him up. But they'd have an orderly there. The captain's asleep in his bunk here and there's a curtain, and his orderly's sitting outside the bunk, wide awake, because he's in charge of anybody coming in to see the captain. So when they'd send me down to get the captain's okay on an outgoing or read an incoming message, I'd go down to the orderly and he'd usually say, "You wake him up." (laughs) BEC: Oh, my gosh. BOY: So the captain got to know me a little bit there. BEC: (laughs) BOY: Sometimes he'd have to get right up out of bed and get dressed and go up to the bridge. Other times, he'd just have to initial off on a message or something. BEC: But the orderly wouldn't go wake him up (laughs). BOY: Not usually. Sometimes they would. But the orderly was probably just a seaman, or s01netimes a petty officer. But, I don't know, I wouldn't pick one thing out 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p86b54/1025999 |
