| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 2, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Keywords |
WWII; World War II |
| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 2 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
The interview continues with Gavino's being drafted in 1943 at the age of eighteen and sent to New Zealand. He talks about combat in New Guinea and the Philippines, the behavior of conquered Japanese during occupation, and the condition of Japanese cities. Other topics covered include women working for Kennecott, postwar working conditions at the mine, unions and strikes, being evicted from company houses to make room for mine expansion, employment practices at Kennecott, Father Miersman, accidents and safety, family marriage customs, and Mormon religion and culture. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
123 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| 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/s60w0kgs |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; World War (1939-1945); Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893095 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs |
| Title |
Page 5 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
892974 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Esperanza y Gavino Aguayo 3-4-85 sl:3 convoy thats - you think about - at that time, you were reading about convoys that were going across the North Atlantic. Big Convoys and everything and submarine attacks and all that. And here we are in one ship, by ourselves. You know, going down .. (laughs) But it was a big ship. It was a - one of these regular passenger lines. General Pope (laughs) I remember General Pope. They c1aimed it was faster than a submarine so it didn't have to - it didn't - they didn't need a convoy. (laughs) Oh, When we spent all that time, we never, except for one time, I think about a spot of rocks, somewhere out in the middle of theocean. Never saw a speck of land until we hit Caladonia. L what happened there. GA What I can remember mostly about that is about a month after we were there, we hit a typhoon there and we were all living in these big, like hospital tents, you know, about maybe 50 or 60 people in a tent. And that typhoon just wiped those whole tents right off. It swept them away I've never seen anything like that. I never had the slightest idea of what a typhoon was. You know, like that. And we were rightoutside the capitol - and I remember they had these old - like - just like French village. Well, .it's a French island. Their homes werelike-that - you know, with a red tile roofs. And I remember watching those red tiles sailing across - for like - what do you call it. Frisbees? (laughs) But it--We spent time trying to save our tent. You know, holding the ropes and this and that, trying to |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/892974 |
