| Title |
Reece B. Robertson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann, March 7, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 498-500 |
| Alternative Title |
Reece B. Robertson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Robertson, Reece B., 1920- |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin J.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-03-07 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Germany; Wyoming, United States |
| Subject |
Robertson, Reece B., 1920- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Germany |
| Keywords |
National Guard; Bomber pilots; POWs; Barth, Germany |
| Description |
Transcript (104 pages) of an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann with Reece B. Robertson on March 7, 2002. From tape numbers 498, 499, and 500 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Robertson (1920-2009) attended the University of Wyoming and joined the National Guard Calvary Unit, which was activated in February 1941. He was trained to fly the B26, A20, and A26 aircraft and was assigned to the European Theater. He served with the Ninth Air Force, 115th Bomb Group, 67th Squadron at Braintree in Southern England. He was shot down on Christmas Eve 1944, and held in Barth, Germany, at Stalag Luft One, which was later liberated by the Russian army. Interviewed by Benjamin Bahlmann. 104 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
104 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/s6rr41bb |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027034 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026934 |
| OCR Text |
Show REECE B. ROBERT ON M H 7, 2002 BEN: That was all pre-war? REE: Yes, pre-war. BEN: You said the beet season was the most difficult. I m not sure exactly how that works-! know you have to top them-but do you remove that from the ground, or can you plow them up? REE: They have a special plow that plows them up in the fall, and then they're put into kind of windrows, and then we'd top them and throw them on the wagon or the truck. BEN: And that's the hard work? REE: Yes, the thinning was. I told my father one time, I said, "When I grow up I'll do anything to get off this farm. I'll even join the Army" (laughs). He laughed. BEN: During the harvesting seasons, did the community help each other, or just on your own farm? You didn't help someone else, and their boys didn't help you? REE: Sometimes we would do it that way, because if you were thrashing it would take a bigger crew, so we'd help each other. BEN: Were you much of a hunter? REE: No. What I did-We carried in the pickup was a shotgun, in case we had to shoot a pheasant to get it out of the road (laughs). Actually, when the hunting season was on, we were in school or working on the farm, so we didn't have too much of an opportunity for hunting. BEN: How would you get to school? You said it was four miles away. Was there a school bus? REE: A school bus would pick us up in the morning and at night. 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1026934 |
