| 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 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030425 |
| OCR Text |
Show LOW: I just got put in charge of it by - I gues you w uld say - n c ity. I wa a sergeant and they needed a platoon sergeant so that's why. I got s rgeant fthe guard every seven days and we had corporals pulling sergeant of the guard· of cour e otherwi e we'd of had it more often because there wasn't that many sergeants around. And actually, in our outfit 8206, we had a- what we had up there in that outfit, we had a cement-hulled barge. There was two of them in the 2nd Logistical. There was one tied up to the deck in Pusan and we had the other one in the break water channel, behind the break water, up at Sockho. It was an old Navy repair barge, it drew about thirteen fill of water, it was cement hulled and it had a barracks on top of it. JAS: Okay. LOW: And we had flushing toilets, we had water tanks and we had the mess hall and everything on this barge. JAS: So you were able to take showers? LOW: Oh yeah, yeah. It was kind of nice that summer. The only problem was effected that half of the day I went into the outfit- when I went into it there was a bad storm coming off land and these fellows up there didn't know how to anchor properly to the, I guess you'd say, the catwalk out to it. And they didn't have it anchored properly and the wind- this is like a big sailand it blew it against the break water. So, we had to row boats back and forth to it all summer. When I went into it, the day I went into it, they had three boats trying to push it back to shore and the wind was so strong that they couldn't move it. So, they just let it go and it went against a break water and that's where it was all summer. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bp24v4/1030425 |
