| 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 41 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026721 |
| OCR Text |
Show A.JA K EVER E EPT MB R 29 200 BE : Why did you choo e the Marin s in the first place? JAC: I went and saw a movie. Well, no I chose the Marines because I thought the training was a little more, how would you say, more specific. That, and I figured that, under the situation, we had better training than if I'd gone into the Army. The Navy would have been my next choice, but, I didn't like to be on a ship. When a couple of times we had a submarine alert, the light would go flashing. One time we had bombs dropped near us. You can't dig a foxhole on a ship. BEC: Well, those are pretty much all of my questions. Is anything else that I should ask you or that you'd like to add before we turn the tapes off? JAC: It's hard to try to recount the day-by-day experiences. Some of them were repetitious; some of them were different situations that happened. I did come out of the service with a positive attitude about what I wanted to do. I didn't want to roust around doing this and that and the other. I got into a secure situation. I worked at the University of Utah for thirty-four years. I felt very secure up there. It was a good environment. BEC: But you're thinking that being in the service gave you that clarity to say, "I just want to settle down and be in something steady and secure." JAC: That's right, and also my early situation with my folks moving around from here to there. We never grew any roots any particular place until we moved to Salmon. My dad bought a little piece of property and built a little house on it. We were more or less camping out there too, because he never finished it. BEC: Is that right? When your parents finally moved here to Salt Lake, did they wind up staying here until they passed away. JAC: Yes. 40 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xm0dsc/1026721 |
