| Title |
Douglas Woodford Hardy, Orem, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 29, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 672 |
| Alternative Title |
Douglas Woodford Hardy, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Hardy, Douglas Woodford, 1918-2010 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-06-29 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Sicily, Italy; Rome, Italy; Austria |
| Subject |
Hardy, Douglas Woodford, 1918-2010--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Artillery operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American; Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
ROTC |
| Description |
Transcript (33 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Douglas Woodford Hardy on June 29, 2004. From tape number 672 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Hardy (b. 1918) talks about his schooling, graduation from the University of Utah in 1941 in Sociology, and his participation in ROTC. He enlisted in the army in June 1941 and was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, Headquarters Battery of the 39th Field Artillery Battalion. He details his experiences in Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia, Sicily, and describes his brief tenure with the occupation forces in Austria. Discharged at the rank of Captain, he stayed in the reserves and retired as a Colonel after 32 years of service. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 33 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
33 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/s6tj0pq5 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Artillery--American; Cassino, Battle of (Italy : 1944) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030521 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj0pq5 |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030514 |
| OCR Text |
Show DO L WOODFORD HARDY J 29,2004 had any supper. I hadn t either. he said 'Come to my hom I th ught, · H r I ll just deliver her to her home." So we got in my jeep and she showed me how tog t through the streets of Rome to her home. I parked the jeep in front of her home. he went in and I went in. Apparently, she had a little boy. I didn't know I didn't ever find out whether she had been married and was divorced and her husband killed in the war or whether she was just a partner or what. But she had a little boy who was five or six years old. So she wasn't a little girl. She was a woman. I didn't know that until we got to her home. Then she fixed supper for us. So she had a little table like a little card table and put the food on it. She sat here, the boy sat there and I sat over here. It was such a small table that when I sat down, my knee brushed her knee. I looked at her and she smiled at me so I smiled back. We had a nice dinner. After the dinner, she took her little boy to a little room to the left of her bathroom and put the boy to bed. It was getting late. She went into the bathroom and she talked on the phone there for a couple of minutes and when she came out, instead of wearing clothes she had put on a white robe with the flats around, folded. She came over to me and as she did she unfolded the folds of the straps. That's all she had on. She took me by the wrist and pulled me towards another room, which turned out to be her bedroom. She lay on the bed all ready for me. Here I was in my military uniform, big boots right down to the shoe level with all my clothes on, but my mind said to me, "I'm not married." I had grown up believing that chastity was a very important thing and that you didn't indulge in sex until you got married. So that went through my mind again. It had happened before. So for a few moments, I lay on the bed by her but I was in my uniform. Here she was with her robe wide open. Wow. I kept thinking about it and thinking about it and then I thought, "I can't do this." I jumped 27 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tj0pq5/1030514 |
