| 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 35 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026964 |
| OCR Text |
Show REECE B. ROBERT ON M R H7,2002 on and I noticed it was bent slightly (laughs). So, apparently he d tried to break into my airplane, maybe to get liquor or whatever, because it was a monotonous thing for them. BEN: Kind of go crazy up there. REE: Go crazy. They didn't have any movies or anything. So the next time, I flew from Greenland to Iceland. This was the first time this ever happened to me. Now there were three of us. We had a navigator, and my wings began to ice up. Now on these planes they had a rubber boot on the leading edge so you could expand and break off the ice. And they had also, on the propeller, they had a liquid that would spray on the propeller to keep it from icing. So this began to ice up. Now, that's the first time and the last time I'd ever flew a plane that had ... the conditions had to be apparently just right to form this ice. But, we immediately dropped clear down close to the ocean, really close, and we didn't have any problem. So I went to, as I say, from Greenland to Iceland, and then from Iceland, we went to Scotland. BEN: On that journey over there, any specific attitudes of flying over water? REE: No. BEN: It can be more concerning because if something happens over water, it's a lot more senous. REE: I'll tell you, when we were flying over the tip of Greenland, I looked down, and even though it was May, it was cold. I could see kind of like a blizzard going right over where I was flying. I thought, "Boy if I go down here, this is it." And I thought I heard one engine kind of coughing. It turned out to be my imagination (laughs). BEN: So you had a navigator on that one, of course. REE: I had a navigator. 35 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1026964 |
