Scope and Contents Henriques (b. 1930) joined the National Guard in 1947. He had been in the State Guard during World War II. In 1950 he was on a survey crew working for the Bureau of Land Management at thd Dugway Proving Grounds when a man came out and told him that he had been ordered to active duty because war had broken out in Korea. According to Henriques, 80% of the Utah Guard was called up on the first day of the Korean War. He recalls being processed and sent to Japan, then Korea. He was immediately...

Scope and Contents Howard (b. 1922) talks about family life and growing up in the Depression. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps and was inducted in 1942, taking his basic traing at Miami Beach, Florida. Having had pre-war experience as an aircraft mechanic, he was assigned to the Mobile Air Depot at Buckley Field near Mobile, Alabama. He was shipped to the Pacific in 1943 and describes being on the USS Sea Corporal when it was attacked by a Japanese submarine. He was...

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Howard (b. 1924) talks about her birth and childhood in Utrecht, Holland. She recalls hearing about the German bombing of Rotterdam and the surrender, which took place five days later. During the war she worked for a company that cleaned the homes of German officers. Topics covered include food shortages, German roundups of men and resistance workers, the black market, curfew, the liberation of Holland and postwar events, and converting to the LDS Church in the 1950s. 46 pages.

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Husband (b. 1923) recalls growing up in Salt Lake City. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and was shipped to the Pacific after finishing his training. 39 pages.

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Hyatt (b. 1922) recalls her childhood in Manti, Utah, and describes her nurses training and entlistment in the Army Nurse Corps. She met and married a fellow officer during her period of basic training and was shipped out to various bases in the Pacific. 15 pages.

Scope and Contents Gilbert Iker (b. 1927) describes his childhood and youth in Detroit, his father's involvement in an Army Corps of Engineers Reserve Unit prior to the war, and life on various bases after his father was called to active duty. He reminisces about his high school years at East High in Salt Lake City, when his father was stationed in Kearns. He joined the Navy in 1945 and was in basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station when the war ended. He was stationed near Hayward, California...

Scope and Contents James (b. 1922) recalls his childhood in Alabama. He joined the Navy in 1942, and was sent to Pearl Harbor, where he was attached to the fleet camera party, whose job it was to tow a target for gunnery practice. He requested and got a transfer to the USS Indianapolis, where he served throughout the war. He describes the torpedoing of the Indianapolis, being in the water with the sharks, and talks at length of the efforts of...

Scope and Contents Johnson (b. 1921) talks about his youth in Salt Lake City, including graduation from West High School, participation in ROTC, the effects of the Depression on his family, and working at the Denver and Rio Grand Depot. He describes being drafted into the army in 1942, his military training, traveling to England on HMS Samaria, and across the channel on the USS Nicholas Herkimer. He first saw combat near Cherbourg, France,...

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Mr. Johnson (b. 1919) speaks of living and working in coal mining towns in Carbon County, Utah during the Depression. He was drafted into the army, attended radio, telegraph school, and radar schools, and was detailed to the Pacific. He describes communicztions activities during combat and interaction with native people. He was discharged in November 1945 and returned to Utah where he worked for the railroad until retirement. 46 pages.

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Wilma Johnston (b. 1925) recalls growing up in the midwest, and going to work at Boeing in Wichita in 1943. Her job consisted of riveting sections of the wing on B-29 aircraft. She later moved to Wyoming with her mother and met her future husband, who was home on leave. 33 pages.