Griffiths, Ray OH10_076

Title Griffiths, Ray OH10_076
Creator Weber State University, Stewart Library: Oral History Program
Contributors Griffith, Ray, Interviewee; Tesch, Robert, Interviewer; Gallagher, Stacie, Technician
Description The Weber State College/University Student Projects have been created by students working with several different professors on the Weber State campus. The topics are varied and based on the student's interest or task for a specific assignment. These oral history assignments were created to help Weber State students learn the value and importance of recording public history and to benefit the expansion of the Weber State oral history collections.
Biographical/Historical Note The following is an oral history interview with Ray Griffiths. The interview wasconducted on September 6, 1971, by Robert Tesch. Griffiths discusses the war in thePacific. He also talks about the fall of Corregidor and his experiences.
Subject World War II, 1939-1945; United States--History, Military; Philippines; Japanese; Prisoner-of-War camps
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA
Date 1971
Date Digital 2015
Temporal Coverage 1940-1971
Medium Oral History
Spatial Coverage Utah, United States, https://sws.geonames.org/5549030; San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States, https://sws.geonames.org/10630414; Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, https://sws.geonames.org/5477747; Corregidor Island, PH.40.B6, Calabarzon, Philippines, https://sws.geonames.org/1716797
Type Text
Conversion Specifications Original copy scanned using AABBYY Fine Reader 10 for optical character recognition. Digitally reformatted using Adobe Acrobat Xl Pro.
Language eng
Rights Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes, please credit University Archives, Stewart Library; Weber State University.
Source Griffiths, Ray OH10_076; Weber State University, Stewart Library, University Archives
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s6dbraw2
Setname wsu_stu_oh
ID 111538
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6dbraw2