| Title |
Keith Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 2, 2001: Saving the Legacy tape no. 202 |
| Alternative Title |
Keith Richardson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Richardson, Keith, 1923-2015 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-02 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Attu Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States; Russia |
| Subject |
Richardson, Keith, 1923-2015--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Great Depression; Cargo; Crash landing; Architects; Russian internment camps; Tashkent |
| Description |
Transcript (22 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Keith Richardson on April 2, 2001. From tape number 734 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mr. Richardson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July13, 1923. He discusses his childhood and the Depression. He joined the Navy in August 1942 and took ground training as an aviation cadet at Brigham Young University. Pre-flight school was in San Luis Obispo, California, followed by primary flight training in Pasco, Washington. He received basic flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and graduated as an Ensign in February 1944. Ordered to Aleutian Islands (Attu) from where he flew PV-1 Lockheed Venturas on patrol bombing missions conducting sector searches around Japanese territories. Shot down August 14, 1944. Describes crash landing in Petropavlovsk, Russia. Taken as an internee for over 6 months by the Russians. He describes his experiences during that time. In January 1944, the Russians smuggled the internees out through Iran where they were transferred to American custody. Continuing through Cairo and Naples, their group boarded Liberty ships back to New York. He was reassigned to North Island ferrying aircraft until discharge in April 1946. Mr. Richardson graduated from the University of Utah in architecture. His firm designed, among other buildings, the Pharmacy building at the University of Utah; Whitmore Library; Classic Bowling; and numerous schools throughout Utah and Idaho. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 47 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
47 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/s6pp17rr |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029564 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029521 |
| OCR Text |
Show KEITH RICHARD ON PRI 2 2001 KEI: We had a good, active family, family life. All of us participated in church activities and neighborhood activities but it was nothing special or outstanding, I don 't think. BEC: You said that you participated in acapella and some drama. Were you involved in some other extracurricular activities at school? KEI: Oh, yes. BEC: Did you do sports? KEI: No, I was in ROTC. They used to have the military in high school and I was in ROTC: Reserve Officers Training Corps (laughs). That was in high school. So I went that way rather than in sports. We did a lot of sports in church: softball, volleyball, and basketball. BEC: Did you like school? KEI: Oh, yes. I enjoyed it. I wasn't an especially sharp student (laughs), but I enjoyed school, yes. BEC: When you were growing up, the United States was going through the Great Depression. How was your family affected by the Depression? KEI: It didn't hit us until about 1931. The crash was in '29, and then right after that most of the construction and building essentially stopped. There just wasn't any need for construction. So we had to give up our home, which was fairly large, and moved to this small home. That affected us as far as crowding five children into a little house. We barely fit. It was tough. We had rationings and we didn't have the best of food, but we had lots of soups and beans and what have you. We never did go hungry. Clothing was short. It was very hard on my parents more than us. They really had a hard time making 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr/1029521 |
