Skip to main content

Box 2

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Paul Franke

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Franke (b. 1919) recalls growing up in Utah during the Depression, working at Kennecott until he was drafted in 1944, and working as a machinist in the army. He was discharged in 1946. 48 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Austin Garner

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Garner (b. 1919) recalls growing up in Southeastern Idaho. He joined the National Guard and was stationed on the West Coast. 36 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Lucile Georgell

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Born in Salt Lake in 1925, Georgell worked in an arms plant in the early days of the war. She reminisces about life in Utah. 35 pages
Dates: 2001-2010

Vern Glade

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Glade (b. 1920) was drafted into the army in 1942. He served in Alaska in a harbor craft detachment unit. 40 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Joan Gould

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Joan Gould (b. 1919) took her nurses training at the Seton School of Nursing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She joined the Navy and served aboard the hospital ship USS Samaritan, which was stationed offshore during the landings on Iwo Jima, Peleliu, and Okinawa. 49 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Conrad O. Hansen

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Hansen (b. 1923) recalls growing up in Salt Lake City, working at the Remington Arms plant, entering the army in 1943, and landing on Iwo Jima on D-day, plus two. 48 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Masami Hayashi

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Hayashi (b. 1923) recalls growing up in the small farming community of Fort Lupton, Colorado. He attempted to join the Air Corps but was classified as 4-C, or alien. His classification was later changed to 1-A and he was drafted into the army and assigned to the Military Intelligence School at Fort Snelling. The war ended while he was on a transport ship to Manila. He was a translator in the prosection section responsible for trying Japanese war criminals until he was discharged in 1946. 31...
Dates: 2001-2010

Cora Lee Johnson

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Cora Lee Johnson (b. 1920) talks about her family's history as Canadian pioneers and growing up in Thistle, Utah. She joined the U.S. Coast Guard and was assigned to the post office in Palm Beach, Florida. She was later transferred to San Diego. 54 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Dennis Johnson

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents Dennis Johnson (b. 1921) recalls being in ROTC at East High and the University of Utah. After graduation from the university, he was trained at Fort Sills and then assigned as a forward observor to the Fourth Infantry Division, which served in Europe. He recalls his experiences in Germany and his time in Korea. 63 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010

Frank Johnson

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Frank Johnson (b.1917) enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939, three days before Hitler invaded Poland. He was stationed in Seattle when the Japanese bombed the fleet at Pearl Harbor and was later transferred to Boston. He finished his service time in Ketchikan, Alaska. 38 pages.
Dates: 2001-2010