| 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 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026011 |
| OCR Text |
Show B YD WILLI M , 2 4 state of olorado. H got that job. H s b 11 th r ab ut fiv y ar 11 . r g t rick t pens and notebooks and verything. I don t hav a ricket ph n (laugh ). ut h g t three kids. He's got two girls and a boy and a real neat wife. Lezli graduated from Idah Falls High School and went to BYU, started in nursing. he graduated from there. he didn't know for two years what she wanted to do, so when she graduated from theY after four years-she just had an associate degree for nursing-she took summer school and got an RN degree. Then a year or two after that she went to the Phoenix Institute and got her bachelors degree. That really helped her out, in her nursing. She was hired into the Intermountain Burn Unit there, and she's sti ll there. She worked up to sort of a shift manager. Then she went into case management for a while, then they wanted her back in the nursing unit. Now she's worked herself up as the Nurse Manager of the Burn Unit and Trauma. Anyway, there's about eighty nurses that report to her, so she's got a real good job. She likes the University there. I go up there every once in a while, meet her for lunch or something. Both n1y wives died there. The first wife died of cancer in the cancer section there. The second wife died of a real abnormal blood disease. Dr. Zone was in on it; he's the head of dern1atology there. BEC: That must have been a real sudden thing. BOY: Yeah. It didn't start out till that swntner of '96, she just sort of started losing interest and appetite. She always played tennis two, three, four times a week and she'd always like to golf tlu·ee or four tin1es a week and swim. Just one summer all of a sudden she didn' t want to as n1uch. Labor Day of '96, all of a sudden she started getting blisters on her hands and in her nose and on the bottmn of her feet, great big blisters. We got her into the ER at the University when we first noticed it. They thought it was a dermatology 29 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6p86b54/1026011 |
