| 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 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026351 |
| OCR Text |
Show 0 LO LM going as fast as they could go. Th ld padr h d h was comical but it was kind of sad too in a way. h y they were primitive. WIN: So how long did you stay in New Caledonia? tt 11 ri iti ROL: About ten months. They funny part of it was, the reason I left th band th r . Tt somehow my orders were transferred to the air corps. It finally went through somehow. WIN: Before we get to that, you did mention more about the coral reef. ROL: Oh, yes. WIN: It is the second largest in the world and, of course, you had some experiences. ROL: Well, at the south end ofNew Caledonia we had heard that the sea life there was unbelievable, so we had to go out and see it. One Sunday we were able to get down there, and the reef was three or four hundred yards away from the actual shore. We had to wade out waist deep to the reef. Then the reef was just a short one, just a little one. Beyond the reef it went off very deep and that is where the sea life was. We were out there with goggles on swimming around looking at this unbelievable view there that was probably as good as you find anywhere in the world. We did a lot of horseplay and everything, and one of the guys started yelling, "Sharks! Sharks!" And we thought he was just kidding again. We still swam around out there and I looked out and there was this big fin not too far from me above the water there, and I found out he wasn't joking. There was a whole school of sharks there, maybe twelve. Those on the reef yelled, "Get in here! Get in here!" I know I had my arms going like a propeller. I looked up and I don't believe I had gained an inch. I have never been quite so scared in all of my life. I was in his world. I was in the shark's world, but I finally made it to shore. We made it back to the beach and 31 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62r5qxd/1026351 |
