| 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 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029539 |
| OCR Text |
Show K ITH RI HARD 0 P I 2 2001 They'd come from Manchuria, got over to Russia, and then they were ent t that me camp. That was a collection camp for American pilots from China and from Attu. We were at this camp for a good long time. But it was fairly good camp, but it was cold. This was November, December and January. It was very cold. We only built fires in the furnaces, little teeny fires inside of a big brick, so-called furnace and the heat radiated into the room from that furnace. But it never did get hot, just lukewarm. We were very cold. In fact we'd take the little throw rugs off the floor and put them on us every night to stay warm in our beds. It was just cold. During the day it was just terrible. BEC: Had they given you any coats? KEI: No. BEC: So, just what you got off the plane with. KEI: Yeah. They had a thin blanket in there on our beds and we'd put that around us in the day and sit around and talk. Anyway that was a pretty nice life there. We had lots of Russian food there, potatoes and borscht and goats meat, horse meat-any kind of meat they could get by the end of 1944-that was in October, November and early December. But December 7th, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we were taken in trucks to a train. The train was going to take us out of Russia. Well, we really didn't know where, but it was to western Russia, further west. By then there were 101 of us. BEC: All Americans? KEI: We were all Americans. We were put aboard a train at the town of Ashkhabad in southern Russia and went by train towards the Caspian Sea. They stopped the train in Ashkhabad and they gave us no reason why it stopped. Then we sat there three days on this train siding. We didn't know why and they didn't tell us why. Then all of a sudden it 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr/1029539 |
