| Title |
Allen R. Ervin, Roy, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, August 4, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 694 |
| Alternative Title |
Allen R. Ervin, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Ervin, Allen R., 1923- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England, United Kingdom; France; Belgium |
| Subject |
Ervin, Allen R., 1923- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; Mormon converts--Biography |
| Keywords |
Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC; D-Day |
| Description |
Transcript (59 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Allen R. Ervin on August 4, 2004. From tape number 694 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Ervin (b. 1923) was born in Port Arthur, Canada, and moved to Wisconsin as a young child. After high school he was employed in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) until he entered the Navy in February 1943. He worked as a mechanic assigned to a LCVP prior to being assigned to a SLT 54. Ervin participated in the invasion of France on a LCVP crew delivering trucks and picking up prisoners and wounded soldiers. He was discharged in February 1946 at the rank of 1st Class Petty Officer. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 59 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
59 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/s66x1d4t |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; Mormon converts |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029681 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66x1d4t |
| Title |
Page 4 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029625 |
| OCR Text |
Show ALLEN R. ERVIN T 4 2004 kid and th re was all this excitement and all that stuff. Then aft r th y built th r ad it was very easy for people from Chicago and Milwaukee to come up to Eagl Ri r in th summertime. Consequently, because of the easy access availability of the roads many of them built homes on the lakes. Well, they bought homes on the lakes and they wanted them to look nice so they cleaned up the shoreline. That caused the fishing to go from great down to mediocre. There was no place left for fry to hide when the big fish were after them. That was something conservationists seemed to forget. Anyway, when I was a kid growing up in Eagle River, my thing was going out and playing in the woods. I fished and camped in the woods. I did everything Boy Scouts do now, except I did it on my own. We didn't have Boy Scouts to speak of. I can remember setting snares out for rabbits. When I was a kid, I didn't have a gun. My dad wouldn't give me a gun because I wasn't old enough for a gun. So I didn't really have any opportunity to go hunting. In Wisconsin every year without fail hunters seemed to kill at least a hundred thousand deer; a hundred thousand deer every year! Of course, the deer there are smaller than the ones they have here in Utah. Nevertheless, they're good eating, let me you tell you. When I got older I used to take my dad's twelve-gauge shotgun and I'd hunt partridges. I had to learn to do it all by myself, nobody was around. I'd just go out in the woods. I had a Model-B Ford when I was a little older. BEC: Did you say a Model-T? AL: A Model-B. It was right after ... they had a Model-T, then they had the Model-A, then the Model-B. I had that. It was a nice car. I'd go out in the woods with that and do things. What we did was, when we were kids and wanted to play, we got all the kids together and played baseball. We played a lot of baseball. That's about it. 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66x1d4t/1029625 |
