| Title |
William LaMonte Robison, Murray, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 1, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 675 |
| Alternative Title |
William LaMonte Robison, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Robison, William LaMonte, 1920-2011 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-07-01 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Philippines; Japan |
| Subject |
Robison, William LaMonte, 1920-2011--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Radar observation; Army Air Corps; Rescue operations; USS Indianapolis |
| Description |
Transcript (48 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Richard W. Johnson on June 3, 2004. From tape number 654 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mr. Robison was born May 31, 1920, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father farmed in Rupert, Idaho. Mont worked as a bookkeeper before enlisting in the Army Air Corps in March 1944. He received basic training at Sheppard Field, Texas, and attended radio operator mechanics school at Scott Field, Illinois. He was sent to Biloxi, Mississippi, to train with PBYs and shipped to California to crew up with a rescue squad. He was then shipped to Luzon, Philippines. He discusses his experiences, inluding dropping lifeboats to survivors of the USS Indianapolis and flying with bombers to provide rescue, when necessary. He participated in occupation duty in Japan before his discharge in 1945. Mr. Robison became a licensed CPA and co-owned the firm of Robison, Hill & Company for over fifty years. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 30 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
30 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/s6jx0h00 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033188 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jx0h00 |
| Title |
Page 8 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033165 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM LAMONTE ROBI ON J L 1, 2004 MON: I went to the LDS Business College for a short time but I didn t graduate from LDS. There's a long story about that. I can tell it. BEC: Sure, go ahead. MON: After I worked for the Standard Fuel Supply a while, they didn't seem to need me anymore. I accomplished all the bookkeeping that they needed done, catching up work and so on. So I went to work for Salt Lake Hardware. That was down on about 200 or 300 West on the West Side. It was one of the largest wholesale hardware stores of the time. After working for Salt Lake Hardware, I took a job with the H. W. Singleton Company to be their bookkeeper and office manager. I had been in the bookkeeping department at Salt Lake Hardware so I had learned a lot about bookkeeping. Then I was studying all the time about bookkeeping and accounting. So I worked for H. W. Singleton Company for several years as their office manager and accountant. Then, because the draft was pushing me and I didn't have essential employment, I quit my job with the H. W. Singleton Company and went to work for the Federal Reserve Bank in their accounting department. I don't remember how long I worked there, but they were soon knocking on my door again for the draft. I didn't want to be drafted into the Army Infantry, so before they could draft me, I enlisted in the Air Corps hoping to be a pilot. [Editor 's note: Men who voluntarily enlisted could, within the limits of the needs of the Services and their individual abilities, have some choice in where they served and in what capacity. They seldom chose the Army Infantry, which was regarded as having the poorest living conditions while also being unglamorous and dangerous. Men who waited to be drafted didn't have a choice and therefore went to places, like the infantry, that volunteers 8 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jx0h00/1033165 |
