| Title |
Cecil Payne, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Bob Stack, August 12, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 287 |
| Alternative Title |
Cecil Payne, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Payne, Cecil E., 1915-2007 |
| Contributor |
Stack, Bob; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England; France; Belgium; Luxemburg; Holland; Germany; Georgetown, Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States |
| Subject |
Payne, Cecil E., 1915-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Description |
Transcript (60 pages) of an interview by Bob Stack with Cecil Payne on August 12, 2001. This is from tape number 287 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Cecil Payne was born in 1915 in Georgetown, Idaho. He was drafted in 1940 and was a member of the 753rd Field Artillery group in Europe. The first combat he saw was the Battle of the Bulge, while supporting the 9th Army. He was discharged in 1945. 60 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
60 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6nw1hfs |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018501 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1hfs |
| Title |
Page 55 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018493 |
| OCR Text |
Show CECIL PAYNE u u t12,2 01 CEC: No, she was, well I guess she was just living there at the time. In v r did g t t find out- and I always felt bad about it, because I always felt I d like to know what h r dad was (I kind of got the idea in the SS, but I never really found out for sure). BOB: How did you make your way back to the United States? CEC: By way of Marseilles, France. We went back to Utah Beach, and we sat there for a few weeks, and then they sent us down to Marseilles, France, and we sat there for a few months. We didn't get out of Marseilles, France, until the middle ofNovember. BOB: Of'45? CEC: Of'45. BOB: And then you came back to this country? CEC: And then we got back here. BOB: Got on a train. CEC: No ... BOB: Did you come right back to Georgetown? CEC: Where did I go? Oh, I went to Fort Lewis, but it didn't make much of an impression on me. I didn't learn much there. I should have learned a few things, like what I could do with my G.l. Insurance- they told us that we had either convert it or to give it up. And I didn't know what I wanted to convert mine to, so I gave it up. And then, do you know the history of that? BOB: I do. CEC: That was ... 53 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nw1hfs/1018493 |
