| 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 66 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026995 |
| OCR Text |
Show REECE B. ROBERT ON R H 7, 2002 course you couldn't sleep because you'd get up and have to k ep warm. I wa th r fi r two nights and part of three days. . BEN: How many inside, do you figure? REE: It wasn't very crowded, it wasn't jammed together. I understand some of them were really jammed together. There was only about six or eight. BEN: And all of you all flyers? REE: All flyers. We got up to this ... now this is the time, and I said in there that we got some snow. Actually, what happened was there was a little kid out there by the car and there was a rusted tin can and a little water in kind of a sewage ditch or something. So I said, "Waser, waser. Give me some of this." BEN: So during those days they didn't give you anything to eat or anything? REE: No, all they had to eat was I did have this little tube of cheese. But I was thirsty. I was so thirsty. So he handed it to me and I got diarrhea or dysentery from it. Boy, what a mess that was. So I still had the problem when I arrived at this place. So they kept me there for two or three days, and I finally got over it, but they wouldn't let you out. Once a day they'd let you out to go to the toilet. Just once a day. So I didn't have any toilet paper, so under this pillow they had, which is made out of burlap, I ripped off some pieces, and decided I'd use that for toilet paper. So they called me in for interrogation, and as I mentioned there, this guy was a very nice guy and spoke excellent English. And he was showing me-they had books about that thick-and he was showing me. And I told them I was a medium bomber pilot, because I thought they knew, because they shot me down in broad daylight. He said, and he would watch my eyes to make sure if I would particularly focus in on a particular item. And sure enough, they had our unit there. They 66 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1026995 |
