| 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 40 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026123 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNEA.OMER EPT MB R 17 2001 anywhere on the island because there's so little real estate. So, they dragged it up out of the ocean, hauled it with trucks - this was all built in about two weeks - and graded the thing, so it was about two hundred feet wide and about three thousand feet long. And then they put a grader on it and made it real flat and smooth, and then anytime there weren't airplanes working off of it there would be sprinkling trucks, water trucks, going up and down, sprinkling it with sea water. The coral stayed hard and it was a good surface, much like a gravel surface. It was hard, it was smooth. But we had a couple of times that it rained hard for a couple of weeks steady. Fresh water hit it and it would get rough and holes would work into it like pot holes in the street, and then as soon as the rain ceased the graders were grading were grading smooth again, and then they used sea water to keep it hard. But one thing about coral- although we didn't do a lot of night flying - was that coral is phosphorescent. WIN: Oh, really? WAY: And at night, when you were flying around the islands out there, the beaches - which are coral - you can see them forever because - WIN:- Self-luminated. WAY: They were phosphorescent, you know, they are white. And so the runways are too. At night you can see them. Probably the biggest event at Ulithi was that at February of '45 we were still doing our work there, and all the once we got notice of the activity that picked up. We had a lot 38 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79/1026123 |
