| 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 26 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029542 |
| OCR Text |
Show KEITH RICHARD ON BEC: You were there another two months, then, because of that. .. KEI: Because of Drew Pearson. So he's no friend of mine (laughs). APRI 2 2001 So anyway we ended up in Tehran and were taken to the hospital. We were there a couple of days while delousing took place and finally we could take a hot shower after that. Then we were flown from Tehran, to Saudi Arabia to a camp. I don't even know where it was. From there were sent to Cairo, Egypt, where we were taken aboard trucks. We were in American hands since Tehran, at the American air base. So we were then in the control of the Americans. From Cairo, we landed at the airport and they had another convoy ready and took us down to Attica, the southern part of the Suez Canal to a rest and recuperation camp there. It was out in the middle of the desert. We stayed there two weeks and we went back to Cairo and flew from there to Naples, Italy. Naples had just been bombed the year before badly. Everything was shot up and port was in bad shape, and the airport. But they had rebuilt it during that last year and we were put aboard a ship in Naples Harbor. It was an old liberty ship. Liberty is a type of ship, a cargo ship, that they built for all the convoys running between the U.S. and Europe. They had so much cargo; they built these cheap little liberty ships that were just like corks. During the next few days, they organized a convoy of forty-two ships in Naples. We came through the Mediterranean Sea and out through Gibraltar and back to New York City in convoy with these forty-two ships. Outside of Gibraltar, our convoy was attacked by German submarines. We lost two ships in the convoy right there just outside of Gibraltar. Along the west coast of Africa the ocean is very deep and all the shipping had to go through Gibraltar to get into the Atlantic. The U-boats stayed out in deep water on the west coast of Africa and just 26 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr/1029542 |
