| 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 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029543 |
| OCR Text |
Show KEITH RICHARD ON PRIL 2 2001 waited there. When there were convoys of ships come through Gibraltar, they'd attack. So we lost two ships there, but we ended up March the 8th finally back in the United States, in New York City. That's the end of our voyage there, after all that time. We left the 28th of January from Tashkent. We took from then until the 8th of March to go through Tehran, Cairo, Italy and so on, to catch the ship and finally get back to New York. So it took a long time, twenty-four days on the ship. They were slow. The convoy could only go four or five knots (the cruising speed of the slowest ship in the convoy) and they zigzagged all the way. BEC: Were you seasick? Probably everybody was. KEI: No, I didn't get real sick. I was half-sick for a while, but everybody got food poisoning at one time on the ship there. Everybody. It was a mess. Anyway we got back to New York the 8th of March. We were safe and sound in American hands on American land. We were glad to see the Statue of Liberty. They had us stay out in the bay. We came in the late afternoon one day. We had to stay out a day on the ship and not go ashore until the next day until they got a berth to put the ship. Then they took us in closed trucks to Floyd Bennett Field, a naval station. There we were debriefed, called our parents on the telephone, things like that. It was good to be back home. That was six months we were in Russia. BEC: Let me go back to these Russian camps you were in. You said the food was pretty lousy? KEI: Oh, yeah. BEC: You said at first when you first landed, a couple of your crews had some badly injured guys and some who where burned. 27 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pp17rr/1029543 |
