| Title |
Kenneth Butler, February 23. 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Frances Merrill |
| Alternative Title |
Kenneth Butler, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Butler, Kenneth, 1923-2010 |
| Contributor |
Merrill, Frances; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-02-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
China |
| Subject |
Butler, Kenneth, 1923-2010--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Asia--Personal narratives, American; Radio, Military; Radio operators--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (20 pages) of an interview by Frances Merrill with Kenneth Butler on February 23, 2004. Part of the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Butler (b. 1923) was drafted in 1942. He had worked at Hill Air Force Base repairing radio equipment, so he was assigned to the Air Force and sent to California, then to school in Madison, Wisconsin. He served in the China-Burma-India theater of operations working in the control tower. Interviewed by Frances Merrill. 20 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
20 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/s6cn961t |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Radio, Military; Radio operators |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029703 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cn961t |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029687 |
| OCR Text |
Show KENNETH BUTLER February 23, 2004 KB: Port of Embarkation. From there we got on a plane and flew across the Atlantic· landed in the Azores, refueled, and made it to Casablanca. It was French Morocco in those days. And that's my first experience overseas at a city that wasn't as nice as the cities in the United States. It smelled so bad that I got sick to my stomach, and so did everybody else on the airplane. FHM: And what year would that have been? KB: It was 1944. FHM: Were you married at the time? KB: No. FHM: You were single? KB: Yes. FHM: Okay. Go ahead and explain-could you tell what the Azores is? KB: What's that? FHM: You went to the Azores, you said. KB: The Azores is an island in the middle of the Atlantic. And so that was a fueling stop. FHM: And what kind of plane did you go on? KB: Going across the Atlantic we were in a C-54 cargo plane, but going from Casablanca we were in a C-46. FHM: And what kind of plane was that? KB: It's a cargo plane, a small two-engine plane. And we flew from Casablanca, landed at Tripoli, got refueled there, went to Cairo, Egypt, and we stayed there for a day or so. Then we flew from there to Abadan in Iran, refueled. The temperature was 13 5 so we were glad to leave there. We made it to Karachi, India. At Karachi, I had my 21 st birthday. 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cn961t/1029687 |
