| Title |
Alan W. Layton, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, August 29, 2000: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 94 & 95 |
| Alternative Title |
Alan W. Layton, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Layton, Alan W., 1917-2009 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-08-29 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Layton, Alan W., 1917-2009--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Battle of the Bulge; POWs' |
| Description |
Transcript (65 pages) of an interview by Winston Erickson with Alan W. Layton on August 29, 2000. From tape numbers 94 and 95 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Layton (b. 1917) grew up in Oakley, Idaho. He discusses his early family life, schooling, jobs, and attending the University of Utah, where he participated in ROTC. He was called up to active duty and sent to Fort Ord, California, working on a survey crew. Assigned as a gunnery instructor at Fort Skill, Oklahoma, he joined the 770th Field Artillery Battalion. He entered combat at Brest, France, in late July 1944, and moved across France, Belgium, and to the German border. Injured by an exploding mine, he was evacuated to the States and eventually to Bushnell Hospital in Brigham City, Utah. He was separated from the Army in 1945, and subsequently started the Layton Construction Company. Interviewed by Winston Erickson. 65 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
65 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/s6g182wq |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Ardennes, Battle of the (1944-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035424 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq |
| Title |
Page 46 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035404 |
| OCR Text |
Show ALAN W. LAYTON T 2 2 00 in the State -I don't know whether thi ought to go in the record. You can dit thi out-but when a guy went on leave, he wa to take a prophylactic kit with him. That had all the stuff in it. Well, I had orne money, because in the camp we had a Battery fund and the revenue that came from the po t exchanges was broken down according to how many men you had in your unit. So I had several hundred dollars in my Battery fund. When the Colonel said, "We've got to get some of those kits." So I got a gro s of them. I learned that a gross was twelve dozen. Well, we had those in the orderly room when a guy would go on overnight leave from camp. Sometimes they'd leave camp and come back before a given time. Then the Officer of the Day, who was one of my officers in charge of quarters, would check this guy back in. See, venereal disease was really ... well, over in England ... back in the States, that gross lasted six weeks. I had a formation one night and I said, "Now you guys who are married"-a lot of them had their wives in Brownwood-! said, "We're not running a family planning outfit." I wanted them to know that those were for the unmarried guys. One of those guys was stealing butter from the kitchen. In those days ... I don't know whether you know about the rationing of gas, meat and butter. WPE: Tires. AWL: So you know about that. Over in England, those British gals were working during the night and they'd go into a farmhouse and get cleaned up during the day and get a little rest and they were back there at night. So the Colonel went with some of our other headquarters officers up there and they got the Bobbies, the British police, to tell these gals they had to move out. WPE: That's war. AWL: You get exposed to a lot of really bad stuff. 46 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq/1035404 |
