| 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 50 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026133 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNE A. OMER WIN: So you, you didn't have your own airplane. WAY: No. WIN: You were just assigned - WAY: - Whatever was running. WIN: Whatever was available at the time. PT MBER 17 2001 WAY: Yeah, yeah. You'd just go over to operations and say, "Okay. This this this." And you'd go out and climb in the airplane and go. WIN: Apparently, not all of your sorties, or trips, were patrols. You had got in to some bombing. Where did that occur? WAY: Well, most of that was our assigned missions down to Yap, which was kind of a "milk run." The runways if you blew holes in them one week - they were dirt runways, two of them - if you go down and blow some holes on them with big, five hundred pound bombs and go down the next week, they're fixed. So we knew somebody was there. We just didn't know how dangerous it was whether they had ammunition to shoot at us, or what. It turned out they probably didn't. We never saw anything coming our way, but there were several bridges between- the Yap group was a bunch of little islands with some channels between them big enough that maybe they're ten miles long, I don't know. Twenty miles. But we'd go down, be assigned to blow some, try to drop some bombs. See if we could hit a bridge. You don't know how hard it is to hit a bridge! WIN: So you would not take torpedoes? You would take five hundred pound bombs? 48 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79/1026133 |
