| 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 101 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027030 |
| OCR Text |
Show RE E B. ROB RT 0 R BEN: Did it make you appreciate small town, big town or anything? REE: Not necessarily. Actually, I think about it sometimes but I don t think it changed me or changed my attitude or anything. 7 2 2 BEN: No opinions on freedoms, understanding freedoms better that was taken away from you for a while, anything like that? REE: No, not that. BEN: Okay. You mentioned the GI Bill. Did you participate in the GI Bill? REE: Yes, when I was in the service, I was in there, as a sergeant. I was making sixty dollars a month. And I had some friends who were in the cavalry, and they were out there making ten times as much as I was. And I thought, boy this is sure some mistake of mine. I could have stayed out of this thing and went to work in the defense industry and make all this money. But then when I got out, when I went to school, the GI Bill was what really put me through, because I didn't have enough money to put me through school, or at least I would have had to work a lot. So I figure that everything considered, I was glad that I did my service and I got the GI Bill, put me through law school. BEN: REE: BEN: REE: And law school, where was that at? I went to law school at the University of Utah. Oh, right here? Right, pre law, I had four full years, so I had enough to put me through pre-school and law school, and I took the bar. BEN: So the GI Bill extended the whole time you were in school, then? REE: Right. It was all the time I was in school. 101 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1027030 |
