| 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 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029538 |
| OCR Text |
Show KEITH RICHARD ON PRI 2 2001 KEI: It was old buildings and anyway we were greeted and that where we tayed f r almost two months, a month and a half, or so. BEC: And that was not far from where you landed? KEI: It was within ten miles from there. So after about a month and a half we were taken in American-made airplanes, manned by Russians. The planes were Lend-Lease planes from America to Russia. They were old bucket seat, parachute C-47s. It was cold. There was no heat in them. I remember how cold we were. Anyway, we flew to the northern tip of the Sea of Okhotsk to a Siberian city called Magadan, which is a mining city, where we were introduced to the fact of where all the prisoners, many, many prisoners of Russia were taken (prisoners of the Russian "Gulags"). We stayed just ... we were in a compound that was, well, housing (laughs). We did stay there overnight. Magadan is where the Siberian mines are you hear about all the time, where they send all the political prisoners and other prisoners. We saw hundreds and hundreds of them walking to and fro on the street, to the mines and back from the mines. Hundreds of prisoners- men, women, and children were there all together, in groups of about 75 or 100 people at a time. So that was part of the Gulag Archipelago in Russia. From there we flew down to Karbarisk on the mainland and then went clear across Russia through different cities: Chita, Ticktae, Irkust, Novosibirsk, Alma Ata, and finally down in southern, what then was southern Russia, Tashkent. We were sent to a camp in Tashkent, the city of Tashkent. We took over an old officers barracks. That was our camp for a long, long time after that. First off there were just several crews of us, and then there were crews from B-29 bombers from China that had crashed into Russia. 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr/1029538 |
