| 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 |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| 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 97 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1032788 |
| OCR Text |
Show J M LARELAMPH R 4 2004 t levision scenes. Also I run across what they call umbrella ant . hi on night I uJd hear a little sound it sounded like that [clicking]. We worked nights down th r b cau the base was just full of people and our shift was the night shift that the area was u ed in the day for the day shift. There was barracks down there, and they were two-stories high; and since it's in the tropics, they only had screens around the barracks to keep the bugs out. This one night I could hear that click sound. I took my flashlight, went out, and I found a trail of ants about six inches wide going towards this tree. Next morning, that tree-oh, half the ants were going empty towards the tree and the other row of ants were going the other way, like a highway, and they were hauling chips of leaves over their heads. That's why they're called umbrella ants. They cut a leaf off and hold it up over their heads and carry it back to the nest. I understand they used it to grow fungus to eat on, and also for heat down in their burrows. When we started the shift that night, the tree was all full of foliage. When we left the next morning, that big tree had been completely de-leafed. Those ants in that one night stripped that tree down, stripped it bare. What I used to do after I seen them, I went in and got the broom and I would brush the trail and destroy the trail. See, they go by scent. I'd brush about three feet of space off and watch their guards run out till they touched their antennas. They would run back and say yeah, it's okay; then all the ants would come across again. One night we was working on some flotation gear, and what blows the flotation up is C02 cylinders. This one night, I was the guy that did it. We had inflated the flotation gear to test it, and this one guy forgot to take the C02 cylinder off the great big old forty-man life raft, or twenty-man life raft it was. I walked by, and the lanyard that tripped the C02 had been undone, and it was lying across the floor, and I stumbled on it. 97 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6224wtv/1032788 |
