| 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 13 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029091 |
| OCR Text |
Show BLA DI A TUERO J 18 2 2 BT: Well, they had never seen a woman in a uniform before. And th n wh n w g t to Oregon, we were the first ones there seventeen of us. That was amp Whit wh rc they trained the men to ship them overseas. [Editor 's note: amp White wa an Army training base built on a prairie area called the Agate Desert in Jackson ounty, Oregon, about five miles north of Medford. The US 9ls1 Infantry Division and other units trained here during World War II. It was also the site of a German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. Camp White was deactivated in April1946. There was a Camp White post office from 1942- 1960, when the name was changed to White City.] BBL: Tell me the name again. BT: Camp White. It still exists, but it's not a camp anymore. They call it White City. All they have there now is a veteran's hospital and sort of an old soldier's home. If veterans have no place to go and they were stationed there, they don't turn them down. They can stay there. I went back, it must have been in the late '70s-I can't remember exactly. The buildings are gone except for that little area where the VA is. There are no fences or anything like it was. [Editor's note: The Nature Conservancy has taken over a large parcel in the White City area as a nature preserve.] BBL: It was really different, then. BT: Let's see, our first prisoners came in, I think, in '44-the German prisoners. That's where they were bringing them, into Camp White. Of course, they were handpicked. We had six POWs doing the KP work; we didn't have to mop or wash. They did that. BBL: Oh, must have been nice. 13 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pk2j8j/1029091 |
