| Title |
Reed Talmage Johnson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, September 2, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 710 |
| Alternative Title |
Reed Talmage Johnson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Johnson, Reed Talmadge, 1923-2009 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-09-02 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
New Hebrides; Philippines |
| Subject |
Johnson, Reed Talmadge, 1923-2009--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Dry docks--Design and construction |
| Keywords |
ABSD; Drydock; Electricians |
| Description |
Transcript (27 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Reed Talmage Johnson on September 2, 2004. From tape number 710 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Johnson (b. 1923) joined the Navy in December 1942. He took basic training in Farragut, Idaho, and attended electrician school prior to being assigned to ASBD-1 (Advanced Base Sectional Drydock) in Espirito Santo, New Hebrides. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 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/s6k37wqn |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American; Dry docks--Design and construction |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032362 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k37wqn |
| Title |
Page 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032348 |
| OCR Text |
Show RE D TALMAGE JOHN ON PT MB R2 2004 th saltwater going out in these tanks. As the air went in up cam th dock. Air lift d it up. We just removed the water. When the valves were open it flooded the tanks and th dock went down. With the valves closed we pumped out the water and all the ballast tanks would fill with air so up it came. I was on the generator watch and I could tell when we started coming up against the bottom of that battleship. Have you every heard steel scream? It does. After all the construction, the welding the twisting, and cutting and heating, and so on, and putting it in place, there's all this tension built up in the whole ship in the steel. As we started picking that thing up, not only the dock but the ship itself just twisted and screamed [shows his arm]. BEC: Look at that. You've got goose-bumps. REE: I shouldn't think about it. But it was just like steel screaming. It was picking up the weight of that battleship. [Editor's note: The USS California, BB-44, was one of the battleships severely damaged at Pearl Harbor. She had been refloated, repaired, remodeled and had rejoined the fleet. After several modifications California displaced between 35,000 and 41,000 tons, was 625 feet long and was more than a hundred feet wide. An online photograph taken of the California while in ASBD-1 shows repairs being made to a large section of California's port side starting about 50 feet back .from the bow.] I thought, "Oh, I hope this works." Anyway, I was down about a hundred feet in that engine room. BEC: That would have to have been really stressful too, wasn't it, getting those generators online just right? 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k37wqn/1032348 |
