| 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 15 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1033172 |
| OCR Text |
Show WILLIAM LAMONTE ROBI ON J L 1 2004 MON: Yes. owe flew over and I was assigned to a crew then that alr ady had b n trained in Biloxi and all the other places back East for air sea rescue. o I was assign d to this crew. I was sort of an outsider in that crew because I hadn't trained with that crew to start with. BEC: But they had all trained together? MON: Yes. BEC: So you were sort of the odd-man out? MON: I've got a book on this Third Emergency Rescue Squadron, Fifth US Army Air Force Search and Rescue. It's titled, The Experiences of a B-17 Air-Sea Rescue Crew in the Far East. I'm included in the outline. BEC: Was this just written generally about your squadron or about one crewman that was on a crew? MON: Well, this is mostly about our crew. So, anyway, we went to Nadzab, New Guinea, which is the devil's quarters on earth as far as I'm concerned. It was terrible there. Of course, it was during the rainy season, too, so we were in muck and mud all of the time. Anyway, we then went from Nadzab, New Guinea, to Luzon in the Philippines where we were stationed. BEC: So Nadzab was just a stopping point for a while? MON: Yes. Well, it was really a point where we were assigned an aircraft and so on. Although, I don't know whether we got the aircraft there or waited until we got to the Philippines before we got the aircraft. But the interesting thing, if there is anything interesting about my story, is that when we flew to the Philippines, we stopped off on Peleliu, a tiny coral island in the Palau Chain. It was about the time that the USS 15 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jx0h00/1033172 |
