| Title |
Earl S. Jarrett, Nephi, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, November 7, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 632 |
| Alternative Title |
Earl S. Jarrett, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Jarrett, Earl S., 1925-2012 |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin J.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-11-07 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Philippines; Okinawa, Japan |
| Subject |
Jarrett, Earl S., 1925-2012--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan--Okinawa Island--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (75 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Earl S. Jarrett on November 7, 2002. From tape number 632 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jarrett (b. 1925) was born in Nephi, Utah, and had a rural childhood, working on his father's farm. There were eight children in his family, all in a small two room house with no electricity or running water. Mr. Jarrett married in March of 1944, knowing that he would probably have to go into the service. He began his military service in August of 1944. After basic training and training as a basic infantryman, he was sent to Leyte Island, The Philippines. He fought against almost no resistance. Next he went to Ie Shima, where again there wasn't much resistance and then to Okinawa where there was very strong resistance. He was wounded on his 30th day on Okinawa and evacuated to, first Hawaii and then to San Francisco, CA. He was separated from the service in September 1945. Mr. Jarrett goes into some detail about his reflections at the end of the war, and about actions he'd participated in. He was also affected by the war for many years. Interviewed by Benjamin Bahlmann. 75 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
75 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/s66995m1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034517 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66995m1 |
| Title |
Page 37 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1034477 |
| OCR Text |
Show EARL . JARRETT OV M R 7, 2002 got wounded but we did get him out to the hospital ship.' I said 'How bad? He said "Well, it hit him in the leg and the stomach and I think in the chest with shrapnel. But he said, "I think he' ll live, but he did get hit pretty good." So that was discouraging news. I had his watch from when he graduated and a pin and two or three personal things. If he got hit first, I would send them back to my wife. Or if I got hit first, he would send my stuff back to his folks, or to my wife. So that was how we was standing at that point. So, anyway, I got them sent back. Course, my wife didn't know when she got it. I think I put a little letter that they were Verl's and he'd been wounded and that. But we stayed up there and then we moved back. Then we hit another position. On the top of there was kind of like a little round knoll. There'd been a big old church, a big building, quite a lot of stone in it, had been bombed or artilleried to pieces. And just off of the rim of that, then you had a few bushes and that and a few little clearings and we moved up that. As we're moving up there, we're going up like a deep "V" ditch, maybe four feet deep, and the guy I knew quite well, up ahead of me, they shot him and killed him dead right there at the end of that ditch. It just ended. He went to go out one way and they killed him. I went out the other way-because I'm not going the same place somebody just dropped dead-I went out the other way and we moved on. Then we got up there ... BB: Is the fire coming from the remnants of the building? ESJ: No. There was absolutely no fire there; they were hid down. We pulled around there and kind of hit a line and there was a little shooting each way. We wasn't seeing anything. Then we moved around and there was four of us by a bush, kind of around halfway or a little better, and it was a little muddy. It rained a little. These guys, this 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66995m1/1034477 |
