| 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 62 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032753 |
| OCR Text |
Show JAME CLARE LAMPH M R H 4 9, 2 04 he was the most perfect human I've ever seen. Everything wa ju t, ju t p rfi ct. H r skin was pure white. She was an Arab, which meant her body had ne er seen daylight" the prettiest black eyes. Oh, she was gorgeous. In the end she stood there crying. Then I thought, "Oh. Oh, I know why she's crying." So I went right up to her and looked her right straight in the eyes, put my hand over my face, and said in French, "I don't see you," and turned my back on her. And very sweetly and softly she said, "Merci, merci beaucoups." (Thank you very much.) She realized that I knew the law. The reason she was crying was she was dead. Her law says that an infidel had seen her face, and she was going to have her throat cut. But when I told her, "I don't see you," it absolved her of having to tell that she'd been seen, and she stopped crying. Divorce is the same way over there. If a man wants to divorce a girl he just puts his hands over his face and turns his back on her. That's a divorce. So she realized instantly that I knew the law and she didn't have to tell them. That's one of my favorite stories. Okay, how much have we got left? BEC: We've got probably about twenty minutes. JIM: Okay, so from that installation, "B"-location, the airfield was called "B". It was from that base that--The outfit that I belonged to was one of the world globe-trotting outfits. Our outfit, for some reason was called on to perform transport work anywhere in the world. From that base, they left one time, and they went and they had engine trouble and they dropped down into Egypt. The crew that went that day took a cattle train out to the pyramids and the sphinx and all the rest of the goodies around in that country of Egypt. Then they got the "engine trouble" fixed. Oh, engine trouble; we had "engine trouble" all the places around. Then they took off, and lo and behold, that group had 62 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6224wtv/1032753 |
