| 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 8 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
892977 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-4-85 sl:6 much. It wasn't nothing. We had time. We went in. We dug in. And there was a river down about - down the coast from us. there. they ome out across the-- try to come out across the river, oh, for about 3 or 4 days, but they (laughs) The japanese were good fighters. They were no dummy - I think by that that time, they were getting desperate. They come acrossthe river, they just got cut up, they just-- they couldn't make- it. After that, it was just a matter of patroling and going you know just to see how far back they would pull back and~eing what they were doing. And everything else like that. I remember one time, we went - ah, and took a patrol. I wasi.n reconnasaince. We used to call it it's intelligence and reconassaince and i- thereas about maybe 20 or 30 of us in the platoon. I rememberone time, they split us up, about ten in each group. There were two australians in each group and about ten or twelve of us. And we had about 15 police boys. And thre must have been about 100 native porters who - god, we looked like one of those safaris inthe movies. We had one group to going down be beach, another group, the one I was in, went inland and went down the mountain. Parallel to the coast. -Just -the idea of seeing how far down - if there was any main concentrations of toops left, then how far down they went. We went down for about maybe 2 weeks. I don't know how far we went, I doubt if it was 20 miles. (laughs) You don't - you don't walk that fast. Until - until we met some more resistance. Ah. Then, I don't know. We just come out. |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/892977 |
