| 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 87 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027016 |
| OCR Text |
Show REE E B. ROBERT ON M R H 7 2002 these big egg nogs and I d have some of those, so by the time I got out of that camp I wa pretty good. BEN: REE: BEN: REE: BEN: How did they decide who flew out first? I don't know. Your turn just came up eventually. We just marched out. Were you pleased to be back in the airplane? Was that a pretty good thing to be back in the air? REE: Well, I didn't ... all I was interested in was getting out of there. I wasn't interested in the airplane. BEN: They took you back to France, to the Lucky Strike camps, I guess. REE: Lucky Strike camps, or those kind of camps. Then when we got back to the United States, they put us up in some of these fancy hotels in Santa Monica, in California. We were there for a couple of weeks. Got further rehabilitated or whatever. BEN: You were there with guys who had obviously been there longer, I guess, some of those POW s had been there a good while. REE: Oh, interesting, one thing. I met one of these fellows that I'd gone through the final training with. And he was one of those, when they asked him what he'd like to do, he wanted to fly transport or utilities. Of course, a lot of these fellows didn't want to go to combat. So what had happened to him? They put him in as co-pilot (laughs) in a B-17. BEN: And you met him in the camp, or in the Lucky Strike? REE: No, I met him in the camp (laughs). See, he would have been a pilot, I guess, if he was chosen, but they put him in as co-pilot. 87 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1027016 |
