| 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 67 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026150 |
| OCR Text |
Show WAYNEA.OMER and out of his shop. p B R 17 2 1 And he had a big shop. We were doing work for a one-hundr d and thirty-fi different stores. We did work for stores in California, Nevada Arizona Idaho Utah. And so I spent eleven and a half-years with it. But he forgot to give me many raises. That's one reason why I decided to join that squadron - so I could join a few extra bucks. And so 1957, I finalOly screwed up enough courage to tell him I was taking another job. I had threatened a couple of times, and he'd give me a nickel raise each time, and so I quit the jewelry game and went to work as the first production assembler person for Litton Industries, when they opened a brand new plant here in Salt Lake City in 1957. And so, I was the first man hired to put things together. I was hired mainly on the basis of two things. The man that hired me was an ex-Marine captain, and that helped a lot; and the second thing is I was familiar with gold, and platinum, and the metals. The tubes, the radar tubes we were marking were all joined with either gold or platinum when you put them together. So I spent the next twelve and half years with Litton Industries, and helped them build the plant- I was number twelve in Salt Lake. But by the mid-sixties, we had a thousand people out there. WIN: That's a big place. WAY: And at that point, I was still the first guy in production. I was the production manager at that plant, and I had six hundred people reporting to me. But we changed 65 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6s48r79/1026150 |
