| Title |
Lowell Elston, Finton, Michigan: an interview by Jason Hardy, August 23rd, 2005: Saving the legacy tape no. SL-746 |
| Alternative Title |
Lowell Elston, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Elston, Lowell, 1928- |
| Contributor |
Hardy, Jason; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2005-08-23 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Korea; Michigan, United States |
| Subject |
Elston, Lowell, 1928- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American; Military engineers--Biography |
| Keywords |
VFW; Veterans of Foreign Wars |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Jason Hardy with Lowell Elston on August 23rd, 2005. From tape number 746 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Elston (b. 1928) was drafted into the army in 1950 and trained with A Company of the 973re Army Engineers at Camp Carson before moving to Fort Riley to assist with flood cleanup. He was assigned to the 8206 Amphibious Training Command of the Army Engineers as an electrician. He was based in Pusan and oversaw operations at the NCO club. He was discharged at the rank of staff sergeant in 1952. Interviewed by Jason Hardy. 27 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
27 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/s6bp24v4 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Korean War (1950-1953); Military engineers |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030437 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bp24v4 |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030414 |
| OCR Text |
Show when I went into that outfit was they said, ' arg unless you like to fight, don t go to th NCO club," which I never did because they had a lot of fights. This outfit had moved a chartered NCO club up there so I didn't go to that. But then, about, I guess you would say about two months later, why they had a problem down there and it was closed and I ended up - by direct order from the commander - in charge of it. So I did the book work for the NCO club and I didn't have anything to do with the dispensing of refreshments (I should put it that way), but I did the books. We didn 't have any more problems, we didn't have no fights. I had good control. We had a good man that took care of the - what do you want to call it - enforced the behavior. In other words, he was the bouncer. He didn't drink and we didn't have no problems. So that was my main job. I did several other things over there - JAS: - What exactly ... Before we get into that, can we go back a little ways? LOW: Go ahead. JAS: When you were drafted, where did you go? LOW: I went to Fort Carson in the 973rd Engineers. JAS: Okay. LOW: And from there, we were called out- when I was in the 973rds I went through the Army Electrical School. JAS: And that was by your choice? LOW: And of course I had always been working at electrical before I went into the service, which was kind of unusual, to get into the school. Seemed like a lot of the people that went into the service didn't get what they'd been doing in their civilian life. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bp24v4/1030414 |
