| Title |
James Clare Lamph, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 4 & 9, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 646 |
| Alternative Title |
James Clare Lamph, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Lamph, James Clare, 1921-2013 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-04; 2004-03-09 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, United States; Algeria; Tunisia; Italy; England, United Kingdom; Okinawa, Japan |
| Subject |
Lamph, James Clare, 1921-2013--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Great Depression; Army Air Corps; Cooks; Bakers; Parachutes; Thermite bombs; Forest fires; Ghost of Ramsbury Hill; Submarines |
| Description |
Transcript (125 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with James Clare Lamph on March 4 and 9, 2004. From tape number 706 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Lamph (b. 1921) enlisted in the Army Air Corps in January 1940. He attended cook and bakers school in Presidio, San Francisco. He served in Portland, Oregon, and at Westover Field, Massachusetts, prior to sailing on the USS West Point, which landed in Liverpool, England. He was sent to Ramsbury Air Base and reassigned as a parachute rigger. He also built gliders. He served in Italy, and the British West Indies before being demobilized at Fort Douglas, Utah. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 125 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
125 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/s6224wtv |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032817 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6224wtv |
| Title |
Page 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032721 |
| OCR Text |
Show JAME CLARE LAMPH M H 4 9 2004 paratrooper in on top of us. Of course it was all ballyhoo. But th r while I was there-- You know, England is famous for its fog. There wa on night whil we was there, that one of our guards, just outside our quarters hollered 'Halt! Who goes there? Halt, who goes there? Halt! Halt!"-- Bang! Because you're supposed to call halt three times, and if there's no response, you blaze away. He emptied his rifle. Of course, we heard that. Everybody became alert. Just a minute or two later the next guard-- The area was configured that there was a roadway around the top of the runway, around the field. That's how we got around. We came up from Ramsbury, up a hil, and turned left or right, and we could get around the field. Our side of the field had Americans on. Part of the other side of the field had English on. Another part had Canadians on. It was quite a conglomerate up there. It wasn't too long after that first halt, a second guard hollered halt. He hollered halt three times, then he shot. Then a minute or two later, a third guard didn't even holler halt. He just started shooting. We could hear this gunfire going all around the base as the guards picked up something. Then the firing stopped. So, I was on the team the next morning that went out to investigate why this guy fired. So everybody got together and the first guard says, "I just happened to turn around and I thought it was a paratrooper. I hadn't seen him." It was a moon lit night, just as bright as day; no fog. The first guard says, "I thought it was these paratroopers they told us about, and here was this guy out in the middle of the field. He didn't stop, so I tried to get him, but I couldn't. I missed him." The second guard made his report that he knew the firing was up there, and he was on alert by then. So he did his business at trying to get the guy to stop. Then he fired. The third guy had heard the firing and he put his rifle in the crotch of a tree, cause he knew whatever it was coming his way. He already had 30 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6224wtv/1032721 |
