| 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 43 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026723 |
| OCR Text |
Show A.J K V R PT MB R 29, 200 h n w w nt t Au tralia which I had not gotten to. Th n we cam h m and w nt t hina. W spent am nth in hina with a group from alt Lake here. We fl w fr m h r to Los Angeles, from Los Angeles to Korea. We spent two nights over in Korea. Then we flew over and landed in Tientsin, China. What they call it no, is Tianjin· the communists changed it to Tianjin. We went up to Beijing. BEC: Did you get to Peking during the war? JAC: Once. BEC: Was that on R&R? JAC: Well, they were running trains up from Tientsin to Peking. This is when the Communists and Nationalist were having trouble, so we'd have guards on the trains going up and back. They put outposts at the bridges and that, so that the Communists wouldn't blow up the bridges. So it was more or less to protect the traffic going up there. So I got up there briefly. I rode the train up as a volunteer on it. I got to see Peking, but not extensively, like when we went back to Peking and Tianjin. BEC: So it was more of a business trip, then. JAC: Well, it wasn't really R&R. In fact when I got home from the service, I still had all my furlough pay coming, because I never got on furlough from the time I went in, in '42, until the time I came back in '46. So I got my back furlough pay. BEC: You mentioned that, when you were in New Zealand, that was kind of a laid back time? JAC: Well, it was supposed to have been R&R. BEC: That six months you were there? 42 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xm0dsc/1026723 |
