| 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 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1035433 |
| OCR Text |
Show DONARAVE ven orne Marine there, their demolition people and their boat p pl with th landing craft. 14 20 2 JOE: I thought it was the Coast Guard who drove those Riggin boat . [Editor' note: The Army, Navy, and Coast Guard and probably the Marines too all had men trained to pilot LCVPs (Land Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, aka, Higgins boats) and other landing craft and boats. During World War II, the US Army actually operated a larger fleet of cargo and troop ships and boats than the US Navy did.] DON: Well, those boats had to come in there at night and bring the guys in. They may have been Coast Guard on there but I didn't meet any of the Coast Guard guys. I met my cousin from the regular Navy there. There were quite a few soldiers that were training to go in on the boats and run the boats and one thing and another. JOE: They did the same things as the underwater demolitions teams, blow up the obstacles? DON: Yes, they did. They went in there and put in demolition units up against those blocks. Then we had to build big walls. That's what I did for a while, wheeling cement up and dumping it when I got off KP. The walls were six feet wide and about twenty feet long. They were all reinforced with reinforcement rods too. We'd build three of them in a row as part of it. They couldn't get tractors or tanks or anything through there until they blew everything up. It would take us about six weeks to build one of those (training) courses. [Editor's note: The Seabees were building defensive systems on the Fort Pierce beaches similar to those seen in aerial photographs that the Germans were building on the beaches at Normandy in order to train men forD-Day. The actual Normandy beach defenses consisted of boat-puncturing beach obstacles and pole-mines in the surf, minefields and barbed wire above the surf line, and concrete wall roadblocks across the 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d81dh2/1035433 |
