| Title |
Wayne A. Omer, Holladay, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, September 17th, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 291 and 292 |
| Alternative Title |
Wayne A. Omer, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Omer, Wayne A., 1921- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-09-17 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Solomon Islands; Ulithi, Micronesia; Peleliu Island, Palau; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Omer, Wayne A., 1921- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Marines; Solomon campaign |
| Description |
Transcript (75 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Wayne A. Omer on September 17, 2001. This is from tape numbers 291 and 292 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Wayne Omer (b. 1921) details his genealogy and recalls his childhood in Holladay, Utah. He went to work for the FBI in 1941 and moved to Washington, DC. He enlisted in the Navy and begain flight training in Athens, Georgia. After being commissioned he transferred to the Marines and was shipped out to the Solomon Islands. After serving in the Pacific he was reassigned to a training mission in Santa Barbara, where he remained until the war ended. Other topics covered include serving in the Reserves, making jewelry, and working for Litton Industries. 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/s6s48r79 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026161 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79 |
| Title |
Page 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026101 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNE A. OMER EPTEMB R 17, 2001 So I went with my head kind of hanging to my foundry boss and said Thanks for this great opportunity, but I've decided on another track." So I went to Washington, D.C., about the first September of 1941. Think I got there about seventh of September. I went to work back there as a fingerprint classifier. Of course we had to do about a month of training. So I went to work with many others. There was three hundred of us on each shift -three shifts. So there was almost a thousand young men, mostly, working on the criminal files of the FBI. And I was assigned the swing shift, and I stayed on the swing shift for almost a year. But anyway, that's how I ended up in Washington. Lived in a boarding house. Two or three, several Utah guys, were there. So we all kind of hung together, lived in the same boarding house, several of us. Soon after we got there, my roommate (another young buck from Salt Lake), he knew a couple of politicians kind of. So he says, "Wayne, let's run down to Senator Murdoch's office. He's a democrat senator from Utah. See if there's any scholarships available." So he and I went down there and we both ended up with a little scholarship out at American University, Arts and Sciences, out on the edge of the district. Out in Maryland. So we both went to classes in the morning, then wen to work in the afternoon at the FBI. We were there just exactly ninety days when Pearl Harbor happened. And they started pouring it to us. They told us "You are now working six days a week instead of 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79/1026101 |
