| Title |
Blandina Tuero, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 18, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 568 |
| Alternative Title |
Blandina Tuero, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Tuero, Blandina, 1921-2009 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-06-18 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Camp White, Jackson County, Oregon, United States; California, United States |
| Subject |
Tuero, Blandina, 1921-2009--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; United States--Army--Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Germany; World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American |
| Keywords |
WACs; Cooks; Military hospitals; POW camps |
| Description |
Transcript (28 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Blandina Tuero, on June 18, 2002. From tape number 568 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Ms. Teuro (b. 1921) grew up in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. She joined the WACs in March 1943 and moved to Des Moines for basic training. She received additional training there in the cooks and bakers school. She was assigned to Camp White in Oregon, which was a training camp and also the site of a German POW camp. She describes her experiences there. In mid-1945, Teuro was transferred to the Presidio in San Francisco, and then to Fort Baker, a nearby hospital, in 1946. After being discharged, Ms. Tuero worked as a cook for the Granite School District before retiring at age 71. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 28 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
28 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/s6pk2j8j |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029107 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pk2j8j |
| Title |
Page 3 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029081 |
| OCR Text |
Show BLANDINA TUERO J 1 ,2002 BBL: Where were your parents from originally? BT: They were from Mexico, both of them. BBL: Did they meet and marry in Mexico? BT: No, they met in Oklahoma. BBL: That's where they got together. BT: I grew up in that area, Paonia, Colorado- that's the name of the little town. [Editor's note: Paonia is about thirty miles northeast of Montrose.] I grew up there until my mother passed away. That happened when I was twenty years old. And as soon as I turned twenty-one, I came to Salt Lake City, Utah. I had another brother living here and I thought I would get a job in the city, but instead I ended up joining the WACs. They were W AACs at the time. [Editor 's note: Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the US Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, and converted to full military status as the WAC in 1943. During World War II, over 150,000 WACs served in primarily stateside non-combat roles, releasing the equivalent of seven divisions of men for combat duty. The WACs where discontinued in 1978 after women soldiers were allowed to serve in non-combat positions with men in regular Army units.] So I joined in March of ' 43. So I went to Des Moines for basic training. BBL: Okay. Let me back up for a minute. So did you go to school in ... BT: In Colorado. BBL: And you attended elementary through high school? BT: It was a one-room school with eight grades in it. BBL: So one teacher, then? 3 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pk2j8j/1029081 |
