| 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 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
892976 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-4-85 sl:5 big one. And when they first started to take it. And you didn't really ·land on any place. I remember the Japanese were holding La and Salamoa, that was about right across the bay - the ·straits, a little ocean, from Australia. That's about as far south as it got. Right there. And when we landed, we landed maybe about 500 miles around them. Up the coast from them. That ~.s about . the way we fought the war in the Pacific. They just by-pass, land o-n some ·other place so they were--s--and then try to starve everyting in between and hold their positions. And that's about it. We landed there. And I remember the l ~emember the 41st landed about, oh,maybe 400-500 miles up from us, at Olandia. Yeah. So there really asn't anybody that our division that . There was maybe 4 or 500 miles north of us or west, whichever way that island faces, they were up the coast from us. And then1here wasn't nob~dy south of us. So all you do is sit - and in between you hold thep::,sition and then you try to chase everybody away from it. They just - you just the idea you just starve them to death. Is all they were doing. Except for - oh, about the first month or so, when they - when they tried to take us out, like attack you there-- after that all there was was patrol work. A-- L You mean, the Japanese tried to move you out. GA Yeah. L What did they do? GA They were only about the first mnth. When we landed, it wasn't |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/892976 |
