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Orem Heritage Museum video interviews of long-time Orem residents
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2251
Scope and Contents
Interviews discuss historical events of Orem and the lives of noted Orem residents during the 20th century. Topics include farming and fruit growing, World War II (reminiscences of serving in the military), industrial and commercial development, railroads (inter-urban line), Orem's World War II prisoner of war camp and host of other local history topics. The interviews also address the development and history of the United States Steel Corporation Geneva Works (formerly Columbia-Geneva...
Dates:
1983-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert L. Winkler interview with Herbert K. and Erika W. Commichaux
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2778
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an interview (64 pages) conducted by Albert L. Winkler and Corey Clement on November 9, 2001. Commichaux tells about his position as a company commander in the German Army with the rank of captain. He participated in numerous campaigns including the invasion of Poland in 1939. He fought on the Russian front from 1941 to 1945, was wounded twice, and was captured by the United States Army in 1945. Also included is an interview of Commichaux's wife, Erika, on the same...
Dates:
2001
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview of Howard Riley
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2993
Scope and Contents
Typescipt of an interview taken from the included audiocassettes. The interview was conducted by David Jones on 14 August 1985 for Dr. Ray Hillam's Political Science 379R course at Brigham Young University. Roley talks about joining the U.S. Navy out of high school and describes his experiences while on ships off the coasts of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Dates:
1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Max Snow teletype message and diary on the Second World War
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7509
Abstract
Contains the teletype message that declared the ending of the Second World War and the diary of W. Max Snow from his time serving in the military.
Dates:
1945 February-August
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Lee Allen
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 3162
Scope and Contents
Transcript (32 pages) and audiocassette recording of an interview with veteran Lee Allen conducted by Mark D. Bell for the Ray Hillam project, dated approximately 1985. Allen went to Vietnam in 1962 and was never wounded. He discusses the brutality of the enemy during the war. He says that the United States press did a poor job in reporting the war, failed to note how brutal the enemy was, and wrongly indicated that the war could not be won. He says the United States could have won the war...
Dates:
approximately 1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Calvin William Elton interviews
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3184
Scope and Contents
Interview conducted by Murray Duff on April 16, 1985 for the Ray Hillam war project. Elton enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1940, but he was used in ground combat in the Philippines in 1941. He was captured by the Japanese in 1942. He experienced the Bataan Death march for five days and was placed in a prison camp. Many men died every day because of disease and malnutrition. Elton talked about how he and his close friends kept each other alive. In 1943, he was sent to Japan....
Dates:
1985 April 16
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Timothy Hoyt Bowers-Irons interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3190
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a interview conducted by Richard Maynard on 27 July and 1 and 8 Aug. 1973 for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies LDS Chaplain Oral History Project. Bowers-Irons was born in Nephi, Utah, and served as a missionary to South Africa for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He graduated in psychology from Brigham Young University in 1942. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943 and was commissioned a chaplain in 1944. He served in Europe and was...
Dates:
1973
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ray T. Matheny interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3195
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of interviews and oral histories probably recorded in 1983. Matheny flew on a B-17 on combat missions over France and Germany during World War II. He was shot down over Germany in January 1944 and was a prisoner of war until the end of the conflict.
Dates:
1983
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Walter H. Speidel interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3174
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted on 28 March 1985 by Burt Speidel, Walter's son, for the Ray Hillam military history project. Walter was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was raised in Germany. He told about the Mormon missionaries that had to leave the country in 1938, and he was afraid that Germany and the United States would have to fight each other. He was in the Hitler Youth that had meetings on Sunday which made it difficult for him to go to Church....
Dates:
1985 March 28
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Gail E. Waller interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3175
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Kelly J. Drake on 6 Aug. 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Drake was in the United States Marine Corps starting in 1936 and later went into the United States Army in 1940. He served in North Africa for nine months and served in Sicily in 1943 with the ordinance section of the Seventh Army. He was later deployed to Germany in 1945 and met Russian troops on the Elbe River. Drake was sent home in July of 1945.
Dates:
1985 August 6
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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