| 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 102 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027031 |
| OCR Text |
Show EB.ROBERT 0 BEN: Would you be under review every year? Did you ha kind of thing to show that you ... R H 7, 2002 REE: Well I didn't know. I didn't have to. I was going to school and th y w re buying my books. And since I was married, I think they paid me $105 a month. BEN: When did you get married? How soon after? What year? REE: I got married, this is my second marriage. My first wife died. I got married the first time in '48. BEN: So a couple of years after the war. REE: Right. BEN: So then after graduating from the law school at the U here, then you went to California? REE: That's right. Well, you know, being a lawyer, you have to have the clients. And if you don't have the clients, you can make good if you've got the clients. But here I was, I had no background, no ins with anybody. So I met a friend of mine. I was out collecting bills and things like that, which was really tough, being a poor practice. So I met a friend of mine who went to law school also down in Salt Lake. He says, "Hey, the Immigration Service, I'm making an application for that. Why don't you go down and try it." So I went down to the Immigration Service-they have a district office here-they gave me an application and I filled it out. The guy called me in and interviewed me and got one of those, "Don't call us; we'll call you". I forgot all about it. About eight months later, I received a telegram: "Report to Los Angeles for a naturalization exam." So my first wife, she had all her family here and everything, and she didn't want to go. I said, "Look, I haven't got anything here." So I started working for Immigration. 102 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr41bb/1027031 |
