| 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 86 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027015 |
| OCR Text |
Show REECE B. ROBERT ON M R H 7 2002 BEN: Interesting. The Russians were kind of a rough bunch. Th y went thr ugh a l t of bad stuff. REE: Now here's another rumor. The rumor said that the Russians would send in these half wild Mongolians and so forth to scare the population to death so when the regular Russians come in, they were all going to be docile, and so forth. That's just a rumor. I did start my own rumor, once. I went out and come back about an hour later. They said, "Hey, did you hear anything?" I said, "Yeah, we're going to get Red Cross parcels tomorrow." I have no idea if we were going to get parcels or not. But, sure enough, the next day we got them. Now my rumors were really Grade A (laughs). BEN: Did the Red Cross parcels ever stop, or did you have them all the way until ... REE: We had them all the way up just about until. .. they claimed the reason we didn't get as many as we should have is because of the transports. What they said was the Germans wanted the American force to furnish trucks to haul the stuff up. And they said, "We're not going to do that." That's according to the rumor. BEN: When did you finally see your first American again? Or was it the British? Or who came first, other than the Russians? REE: We didn't' see anybody. BEN: How were you taken out? REE: We were taken out ... well, the Russians gave us permission to land in that air field. So we marched in and we came in. They were transport planes and they came in and took us over to ... they had these camps in France that were kind of rehabilitation situations. See, I'd go around for seconds all the time till I got. .. between that and I'd get 86 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1027015 |
