| 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 54 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035412 |
| OCR Text |
Show AL W.L YTON AWL: I never fired my .45 during the war. WPE: After training, you never shot it? AWL: No. 29 2 00 WPE: You were wounded and you got shipped first to Paris and then to England. Then you came back to the US on a hospital ship as the war was ending in Europe. You ended up in New Jersey where you ran into one of your sergeants who'd been sent home with severe impetigo. He recognized you. I guess he knew you'd been wounded. Did you stay in New Jersey long? AWL: I was only there a few days. Then I was put on a hospital train that crossed the country and came into Bushnell Hospital. [Editor's note: Bushnell Hospital in Brigham City, Utah, was a US Army Hospital primarily for men who'd suffered amputations. Presumably Mr. Layton was sent there because of the damage to his leg and because it was close to his home. After the war, the buildings were used for the Intermountain Indian School, which has since closed.] In those days, there was a rail line that came off the Southern or Union Pacific that went right into Bushnell, in Brigham City. The other day (I met) in the Salt Lake (LDS) Temple, one of the guests at a wedding (who) had been in charge of the mortuary and the deaths at Bushnell Hospital while I was there. That was his assignment during the war. He told of the number of soldiers who passed away in the hospital at Bushnell. Fortunately, I wasn't one of them. WPE: No you weren't. Bushnell was a hospital for amputees. You didn't lose any parts, did you? AWL: No, but I didn't tell you. When I was in the hospital in Swindon, England, my chest wouldn't heal up. I had a bad hole on one side of my left nipple and one on the other side that wouldn't heal up. The surgeon, the colonel, came in one day and he said, 54 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq/1035412 |
