| 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 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026001 |
| OCR Text |
Show B YD WIL I M ? '- BOY: They put the plan s all on top on th flight d k, and w had th full arn r deck lined up with cots. As they come onboard they all got a haircut and pray d d wn with decontaminant, and we gave them Navy skivvie and shorts to wear dungarees as needed, but most of them were in shorts and skivvies there. BEC: Right. And as you say, they're very skinny. What an interesting picture that is. BOY: They were carrying one English guy who couldn't walk, and they had him on a stretcher. He couldn't walk, but he was sitting straight up on this stretcher, just like this, holding onto the sides and looking around. He was just so excited to be out of Formosa. And he was sitting up while they was carrying him on the stretcher. We took the whole load of them into Manila, and then from there they got treatment and eventually sent home on other ships. But we got so we could talk to some of them. In fact, after the war, I was working in Safeway in Rigby, a grocery store, and my brother-in-law was working for Utah Power and Light in Rexburg and he came in one day and he says, "Hey, this guy in Rexburg said he was on the Block Island when they picked up former POWs off Formosa." I can't re1ne1nber his nmne. So I went up to see him and he was one of this bunch. BEC: Isn't that something. What was he doing in Idaho? BOY: He lived in Idaho; he lived in Rexburg. BEC: Oh, he was an A1nerican, not British? BOY: Yeah, he was an American. Yeah, some of these are-they're mostly English. BEC: Well, that's something. BOY: I might have said more English because I was thinking of the English; they made an assault on the island of Borneo when the Japanese were still holding Borneo. 19 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p86b54/1026001 |
