| 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 70 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032761 |
| OCR Text |
Show JAME CLARE LAMPH M R H 4 9, 2004 face where it went in and come out blew an eye out and popped ut th t p f hi h ad. There were little holes under his chin that hadn't popped out the top of his head. Well, the kid that was sitting on the crossbar of the bicycle his little butt and hi legs were full of little holes, his back was shredded. The kid that was pedaling the bicycle, his legs and his arms and his buttocks were all shredded. So I handed the doctors the little tool they would use to try to probe in to get shrapnel out, and then we'd bundle the kids up, and they'd be sent to a hospital over in the nearby city. Maybe one of them made it. I can still remember that like it was yesterday, and they were just coming in. But the guys with the bullet holes, I can't remember; there's nothing. One of our own people had played with a pistol and shot himself through his belly, and the bullet came out the back; it never hit an intestine or anything else, and he was back to work in three days. Shot him right through the gut, never hit nothing, and he was back to work in three days. He used APC tablets to hold the pain down. Crazy. Okay. I used to walk up in that bomb dump I was telling you about, the big bombs. I thought, "I'm sure glad those big ones weren't dropped on me." Man, they were big. Of course, they were what we call blockbusters. And I know that the airmen always told me when they dropped those big ones, the airplanes would jump thirty feet straight up. Now, I'll tell you one more story about the desert. Flying over the desert one time on one of these milk run trips, like I said, we'd haul stuff back and forth all the time. Just for playing around, we always would go for an airplane ride just to kill time, from point A to point B, to point C, to point D, and then back. It was a big run, milk run. This one day I was standing up in the cockpit of this airplane-it's a C-47-and the pilot and co- 70 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6224wtv/1032761 |
