| Title |
Don Arave, Hooper, Utah: an interview by Joel C. Calderon, May 14, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 378 |
| Alternative Title |
Don Arave, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Arave, Don, 1923-2005 |
| Contributor |
Calderon, Joel C.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-05-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Philippines; Florida, United States |
| Subject |
Arave, Don, 1923-2005--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Construction Battalion; Seabees |
| Description |
Transcript (22 pages) of an interview by Joel C. Calderon with Don Arave on May 14, 2002. From tape number 378 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Arave (b. 1923) joined the Seabees in November 1942. He received training in Virginia and joined the 84th Seabee Battalion. Later he joined the 1011 Construction Battalion in Florida where they built courses for Navy men training for underwater demolition. He was sent to Hueneme, California, for overseas training and was shipped to Samar, Philippines, in early May 1945. He was there until discharged, November 1945. Interviewed by Joel C. Calderon. 22 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
22 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/s6d81dh2 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035447 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d81dh2 |
| Title |
Page 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035431 |
| OCR Text |
Show DON ARAVE 14,2002 tho e day . That wa hard to get u ed to. That' another rea on I volunt r d to 1 av with that detachment, I gue . [Editor's note: One of the greate t and la ting effect of World War II on the United States was the breaking down of regional difference . During the war, millions of men found themselves training in ba es or working in defense industries in one or more areas of the country they would have never seen otherwise. Not only did they get to know different kinds of people and ways of living but also got to sample other kinds of food. If hamburgers were unknown in Virginia, tacos and pizzas were unheard of in Utah. It is no surprise that in the decades after World War II, former servicemen took the best of these "exotic" foods back to their hometowns and opened restaurants and hamburger stands that eventually formed the basis of the fast food industry.] I'd been all over Camp Peary and I didn't want to stay there any longer so I joined Seabee Construction Battalion 1011. Lt. Hewitt was the commander of the detachment and he was holding a meeting for everybody that wanted to sign up. So old Hewitt got up there and said, "Any man that doesn't want to sail with me, let him stand up now! We're going to knock them Nazis right off their feet! We're going to kill them Japanese wherever we go!" He knew all the time where we were going. After he'd gotten everybody all fired up, he had the detachment signed up in no time. Later, this guy from New York, the same place where Hewitt was from, said (mockingly), "Sail with me?" That was after we'd been there a few weeks in Florida. Hewitt was old "blood and guts" (laughs). The way Hewitt had been talking, a lot of us thought we were going to war, but we were sent to Florida. I remember it was in early June. It was just as hot as can be. We got on the train and rode overnight through Georgia and Florida. Man, the next day was a hot son of a 7 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d81dh2/1035431 |
