| Title |
Carl Joseph Santoro, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 28, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 670 |
| Alternative Title |
Carl Joseph Santoro, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Santoro, Carl Joseph, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-06-28 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Clearfield, Weber County, Utah, United States; Mare Island, Solano County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Santoro, Carl Joseph, 1925- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American |
| Description |
Transcript (39 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Carl Joseph Santoro on June 28, 2004. From tape number 670 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Santoro (1925) was inducted into the Navy in February 1944, and took basic training at Sampson Naval Training Station in Geneva, New York. He worked at Clearfield Naval Supply Depot as kitchen help, janitor, and boiler room personnel before being sent to Mare Island on a ship repair unit. Returned to Clearfield for MP duty prior to his discharge in April 1946. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 39 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
39 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/s6dc03zt |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027574 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dc03zt |
| Title |
Page 10 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027544 |
| OCR Text |
Show ign up when they said ' You re 4F. ' o I could have stay d ut f th military fi r v r because they didn't take you with hernias and stuff. But I got it repaired. I got it repair d in September. I was inducted in February. BEC: In February of '44? SAN: Yes. BEC: So where did you go for basic training? SAN: I went to Sampson Naval Training Station. That's by Geneva, New York, where the Finger Lakes are. BEC: What do you remember about that? That was your basic training? SAN: Well, the thing I mostly remember was that it was cold and wintry and we still had to run around the drill field at 5:30 in the morning. They figured we'd be eight weeks in boot camp, but we were there only five weeks. I never saw anything of the rest of the base because we never got off our area. We were in the G-Unit there. Of course, there's no ocean or lake there. Well, there is a small lake there. I'm trying to remember the name of the lake. It wasn't Geneva Lake, but it was one of the other ones. I remember that. I remember that Jell-0 had been a dessert in my home. Here it was made into a kind of a salad. They ruined it by putting cabbage strips or stuff like that in it. BEC: Carrots too? SAN: Yes, carrots and cabbage strips. I'd look for chucks of Jell-0 that I could get the cabbage out. Finally, I just said, "Hey, it isn't worth it. I may as well eat the cabbage and the carrots too." Once in a while, we were looking at mandarin oranges in it. Then I thought, "Hey, this is wonderful." I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I remember the camaraderie. Most all of the guys in my unit were from New York or the New England 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dc03zt/1027544 |
