| 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 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026106 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNEA.OMER PT MB R 17 2001 WAY: Big school. And so we put in ninety days there doing push-up running g ing to classes. They started us in the rudiments of navigation. They taught us some trigonometry. The taught us some ship identification, and plane identification and several different things. Navy regs, we had to try to figure out the regulations of the Navy (what you could get by with, what you couldn't). And so it was a very intense school out there. They gave us thirty minutes a day to write home, and the rest of the day we were under one program or another, around the clock. And lot of physical tests. Not many guys washed out there, but the real wash-out started when you got into primary flight. But I graduated high enough in that class of 240 men, my grades were high enough that I could have the choice of several different primary flight schools all over the southeast part of the country, several of them. And I chose to go to Olathe, Kansas, because it was the closest one to Salt Lake City! Because we were going to get seven days between pre-flight school, and primary flight, and I thought: "Man, with any luck, I could get to Salt Lake and say 'Hello' to people for two days, and then get back to Kansas." Which it really happened quite that way. So that was a real experience at that pre-flight school, and then I ended up over in Kansas about the last of November. WIN: This was of '42? WAY: Of '42. Right in the middle of winter. And our air plane that we were to learn to fly in was hi-wing, open-cockpit- 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79/1026106 |
