| Title |
A. Jack Seversen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, September 29, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 637 |
| Alternative Title |
A. Jack Seversen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Seversen, A. Jack (Albert Jack), 1924-2015 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-09-29 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
New Caledonia; New Zealand; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands; Okinawa, Japan; China |
| Subject |
Seversen, A. Jack (Albert Jack), 1924-2015--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with A. Jack Seversen on September 29, 2003. This is from tape numbers 637.1 and 637.2 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Severson (b. 1924) discusses his childhood in Montana and Idaho. He enlisted in the U.S. Marines in October 1942 and was shipped to the Pacific Theater with the First Aviation Engineers. An injury put him in the hospital in New Caledonia while the rest of his battalion fought on Guadalcanal. He rejoined his unit in New Zealand and spent time on Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa. Among other duties, he worked as a demolition expert, defusing mines. After the Japanese surrender in August 1945, he went to Tientsin, China, for occupation duty. 43 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
43 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/s6xm0dsc |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026725 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xm0dsc |
| Title |
Page 14 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026694 |
| OCR Text |
Show .JA K VER E PT MB R 29, 2003 n had a tight wire. If you kicked the wire, it would set it off. You d think W 11, if I cut the wire it will take the strain off." But, the mine was made to go off either way. If you kicked the wire or if you took the strain off the wire by cutting it, it would go off. BEC: So either way, it would go off? JAC: Yes, it would. So you had to, kind of, look things over before you acted. BEC: How would you defuse that tight-wire mine? JAC: There was generally a way to lock it so it couldn't go off either way. BEC: In your training back in the States before you left, did you learn about these sorts of things? JAC: No. BEC: This was just something you learned on the job? JAC: This was just trial and error, so to speak. We found an interesting thing. This is backing up to when we were on Tinian. When you're in an offensive situation, you don't plant land mines or booby traps or anything like that. Well, there was this lieutenant during the offensive on Tinian. He and his men bivouacked for the night and he did put out barbed wire, mines and booby traps. He happened to make a notation of where he put them. Well, in the morning they moved out and left that stuff. So Island Command heard about it and they got us to go out there with this lieutenant to that particular location to take out these booby traps and landmines that that he'd planted. He was out there trying to show us what to do, what he'd planted. The darned fool tripped one of his own landmines and blew himself up. BEC: Oh, my gosh. 13 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xm0dsc/1026694 |
