| 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 65 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026994 |
| OCR Text |
Show REECE B. ROBERT ON M R H 7 2002 killed. This was a couple of days later. I was afraid. I didn t want to t 11 him that wa my only crewman, because they would know that there was a new type of plane. BEN: So the A-26 was fairly new at this point? REE: Oh, yes. We were the first ones, I understand, to get them. I think I was the first one to go down, as far as I know. So I in my most snarly voice I could, I said,' I don't care where they are or what happened to them. They'll take care of themselves. ' The guy looked at me. He didn't ask any more questions. Well, apparently, they concluded that I was a B-26 pilot, because when we got out, when the war was over, we got our records from this prison camp. They had this sheet on me. That's where I got these pictures from. They had listed me as a B-26 pilot. And that was what I wanted to do. I didn't want to come out and say "B-26." I thought, well, they'll ... so anyway, that's what they did. BEN: So did you go through any interrogation of any sort? REE: Oh, yes. BEN: So after that they did, they somehow decided that you had a crew, at least. REE: Whatever they did. But we got back to this interrogation. Well, I got on this train that was to take us to this interrogation point, and I was on that train, I think it had gone clear across Germany. I was on that for part of three days and two nights. What they would do, at one time they would stop. What they'd do is they'd lock you in and then put barbed wire all around the cars. BEN: Just the boxcars? REE: Yes, just a boxcar, a plain old boxcar. Of course, we didn't have any-silly-there was a two-by-four, and we decided we'd put this up here and this will be the latrine up in this comer here. And, of course, some of the juices would run down the train. Of 65 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1026994 |
