Scope and Contents Hart (b. 1916) describes growing up in a large family on a farm in Bear Lake County, Idah. He attended the University of Utah, where he studied economics, poetry, and writing. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship which was suspended when Britain entered the war. He attended graduate school at the University of Michigan and received his MA in English in the summer of 1941. He enrolled in an intensive Japanese language course and was invited to enter a program sponsored by the US Navy. Aften...

Scope and Contents Mr. Heath (b. 1923) discusses growing up in Holladay, Utah, during the Depression. He talks about his father's involvemnt in World War I. He participated in ROTC at the University of Utah and was inducted into the army in April 1943. He received training at Camp Sibert, Alabama and attended ASTP at the University of Pittsburgh before being assigned to the 90th Chemical Mortar Division, B Company, 1st Division, 1st Army, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He recounts combat experiences in...

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Lillian Crenshaw grew up in Independence, Missouri, and received her nurse's training at the University of Kansas. She was sworn into the army at Fort Leavenworth in November 1942, and worked as an operating nurse until her unit was shipped out to North Africa where hospital units were being formed to support the European invasion. Her unit followed the troops ashsore in Salerno, Italy. She spent her entire service time in Italy. 28 pages.

Scope and Contents Fullmer (b. 1925) discusses serving with the 69th Infantry Division, in Company C of the 272nd Infantry Regiment (the so-called "Battle Axe" Regiment.") He was assigned to a 12-man rifle squad and classified as a sharpshooter. By the time he boarded a troop ship headed for England he was a PFC. He describes moving through Germany with his regiment, being on patrol, and meeting up with the Russian army at the Elbe River. After V-E day he was transferred into Ordnance, where he...

Scope and Contents Rollow Fullmer (b. 1918) tells of his youth in Circleville, Utah, recalling his father's death in 1926 and the subsequent hardships suffered by the family. He joined the National Guard in 1941 and was placed in a medical unit with the 115th Comban Engineers of the 40th Division. He took his basic training at in San Luis Obispo before being transferred to Camp White, Oregon, with the 353rd Engineers. Fullmer describes his trip overseas on the to New Caledonia, where his unit was assigned to...

Scope and Contents Gividen (b. 1924) recalls growing up in Mapleton, Utah. He joined the civil air patrol and later, the Army Air Corps. He received his training in 1943 in Kearns, Utah, and Pullman, Washington, before entering flight training in Tulare, California. He was trained in the BT-13, PT-17 Stearman, Cessna PT-17, and the B-17. He describes crossing the Atlantic in January 1945 to reach Polebrook, England, where he was assigned to the 8th Air Force, 351st Bomb Group, 509th Squadron. He was shot down...

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Mrs. Greguhn (b. 1921) grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was married in 1937 and her husband joined the army after Pearl Harbor, serving in Iran. She recalls joining the WACS in 1945 and being sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas where she was assigned to a medical unit and received training. She worked as a surgical technician in Louisiana and Georgia before being discharged at the end of the war. 17 pages.

Scope and Contents Gurr (b. 1925) recalls his childhood in Utah and Nevada. He received an appointment from Senator Pat McCarran to the Annapolis Naval Academy, but turned it down because he was afraid the war would end before he graduated. He was sixteen years old at the time of Pearl Harbor and had dreamed of being in the armed forces since that time. He enlisted in the Marince Corps and trained in San Diego before being shipped out to New Caledonia and Guadalcanal. He also saw action at Bougainville, on...

Scope and Contents Hall (b. 1925) recalls his childhood in rural Utah and listening to the news about Pearl Harbor when he was in his first year of high school. He enlisted in the Merchant Marines because they had the shortest training period and he wanted to get into the war quickly. He received engine room training in California and ended up on a ship transporting troops from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. He later went from San Francisco to New Guinea on a liberty ship. He spent the remainder of the war...