| Title |
Todd P. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, August 5, 2004: Saving the Legacy tape no. 695 |
| Alternative Title |
Todd P. Smith, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Smith, Todd P., 1919- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-08-05 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany |
| Subject |
Smith, Todd P., 1919- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Todd P. Smith on August 5, 2004. From tape number 695 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Smith (b. 1919) grew up in Iowa, where he dropped out of school to join the Civilian Conservation Corps. He enlisted in the army in April 1942 and was assigned to the 90th Infantry Division, Company M. He trained in Nebraska, Texas, Louisiana, and the Mojave Desert. Landed at Utah Beach after D-Day and traveled across France into Germany. His job at regimental headquarters was filling out reports of soldiers missing, wounded, and killed. He was discharged in October 1945. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s6wd62mw |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034124 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd62mw |
| Title |
Page 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034118 |
| OCR Text |
Show TODDP. MITH 2 4 in after a while. The slaughter around us was so prevalent. Thes guy in Iraq ar g ing through that right now. You have to be in that sort of thing to fully und rstand it. I d b a terrible war correspondent. I'm not an Ernie Pyle. If I remember right, I still have my (unclear) or whatever you call it. It was a corporal's assignment signed by a lieutenant general. That was in the beginning. Later on, they quit that. Mine says, "Corporal, United States Army, so and so and so and so." It was signed by a general by the name of Patrick, who was killed, by the way, I think in the Pacific. But he was our regimental commander in Texas for a while. So I still have that. I still have my Army discharge with the campaigns and all that. You get a star for every campaign. I think I've got about five stars, which I'm happy about because I'm here to talk about them. BEC: That's amazing. TOD: I hope this is something that they'd appreciate. BEC: Oh, yes. Because you came into combat early in the invasion of Europe and drove across France with Patton, were in the historic relief of Bastogne, and went on across Germany. TOD: Well, you never know what's going to happen when you get into the service. You wake up one day and you're one place and you wake up again someplace else. We never knew what was going on with the whole war. We only saw one little piece of it. We didn't know what was happening ten acres from us. We knew what was happening when somebody was shooting at us. We got out of the way. But we never had the whole picture. BEC: I was wondering if there were a group of you clerks, did they call you clerks? 24 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd62mw/1034118 |
