| Title |
Rollo Fullmer, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 14, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 1 |
| Alternative Title |
Rollo Fullmer, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Fullmer, Rollo, 1918-2011 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-03-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, United States; New Caledonia; Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States |
| Subject |
Fullmer, Rollo, 1918-2011--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Military engineers--Biography; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Death and burial |
| Keywords |
115th Combat Engineers, 40th Division; 353rd Combat Engineers; San Luis Obispo; Camp White; New Caledonia |
| Description |
Transcript (40 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Rollo Fullmer on March 14, 2000. This is from tape number 1 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Rollow Fullmer (b. 1918) tells of his youth in Circleville, Utah, recalling his father's death in 1926 and the subsequent hardships suffered by the family. He joined the National Guard in 1941 and was placed in a medical unit with the 115th Combat Engineers of the 40th Division. He took his basic training at Camp San Luis Obispo before being transferred to Camp White, Oregon, with the 353rd Engineers. Fullmer describes his trip overseas on the to New Caledonia, where his unit was assigned to construction tasks. He was accepted into OCS at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where his unit participated in the color guard at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral. He was discharged as a sergeant in November 1945. 40 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
40 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/s62r5qxd |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military engineers |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026361 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62r5qxd |
| Title |
Page 26 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026345 |
| OCR Text |
Show was doing om barb ring and it ould g t h ir n it from that standpoint. As we pulled across th quator th h d n tu u . With four thousand people they couldn t take care of all t th t about twenty. Oh, they treated them rough. They would blindfold th m and th did t know what was happening. They would tell them they were going to dou th m ith boiling water, and they would put ice cold water all over them. They would scream because initially they couldn't tell. They had such a-it was quite a court I will tell you. Boy, they really run them over. Fortunately, I didn t get in on it. WIN: Was this just for entertainment of the troops? ROL: Yes. Incidentally, going over, our band did a lot of entertaining playing. We had a jazz-five. This Elmo Belnap that was in our band was unbelievable. He was six-five and his legs were shorter than mine. He was just proportionately out of sync. He would do a little song and dance, and he would have the crowd laughing so hard, you just couldn't believe it. I know eventually, by the time I left over there, I think he was better known than General MacArthur. WIN: At least for those four thousand troops on the ship. What did you do for entertainment on the way down that month? ROL: On the ship? WIN: Yes, on the ship. Did you have anything to do besides play your instrument? ROL: No, it was just a matter of getting there. WIN: Did you have reading materials, or did you just sit around? ROL: Yes, we had a little reading, but it was mainly just wait and wait and wait. You would go to chow, and the smell would be so bad coming up from the down below the- 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62r5qxd/1026345 |
