| 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 62 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035420 |
| OCR Text |
Show L W.LAYTO 29 20 Now my on, who you got acquainted with, wa a vice pre ident of ur mpany. He married a girl from Vancouver, BC. He'd ju t come off a mi ion and had b n with our company for a while and he thought if they moved up there they could get hi wife' parents to join the church. They came here sitting here crying saying, "We think we ought to move up there and see if we can't get her folks in the church." "What'll you do up there?" "Oh, I'll do some engineering work." Well, her folk never did join the church and his father-in-law finally died. But my son started this structural firm up there. On the Jordan River Temple, on Cougar Stadium, on several jobs, he got heavily involved with the attachment: How to attach the curtain wall or the stone on the building so it's never ever going to come off. You know this big Sears Tower in Chicago, built many years ago? A lot of the facade on that just fell down on the street. So the architects look to a structural engineer to be sure that the facing of a building stays in place. There's wind loading and there's a lot stresses involved on that. He had a lot of background there and set that up. Boy, he got jobs in San Diego, Portland, and Seattle. He's licensed in those states. He was telling me, "Dad, it's been a great place to raise a family. It's a little different in Vancouver. About a third of the people in Vancouver are Chinese." You can't believe the exodus of people from China (Hong Kong) over here thinking that. .. well, I've strayed. You'll have to edit a lot of this out. WPE: No, we'll keep it all. AWL: That little book, you can read it in a couple of nights and there're a lot of things in there. Tum right to the very back of the book. We've got a lot of pictures in the back. I wanted you to see ... you'll see Dave Pershing. I don't know whether you know of him or not. He's the vice president to ... you'll probably be interested in that. I finally got a degree. If you' 11 read that. .. 62 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g182wq/1035420 |
