| Title |
Walter Stewart, Benjamin, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, May 25, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 21 and 22 |
| Alternative Title |
Walter Stewart, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Stewart, Walter T., 1917- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-05-25 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Romania; Payson, Utah County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Stewart, Walter T., 1917- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Eastern |
| Keywords |
Ploesti; Oil refineries; Bombing; ROTC. Army Air Corps; 8th Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group |
| Description |
Transcript (61 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Walter Stewart on May 25, 2000. This is from tape numbers 21 and 22 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Walter Stewart (b. 1917) talks about his ancestors being early settlers of Payson, Utah, and discusses raising and selling racehorses. Other topics covered include the Depression, his LDS mission to Scotland, and ROTC. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was assigned to the 8th Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group. He speaks at length about his combat missions, the Ploesti raid, piloting the "Utah Man," the rescue of downed crew members, touring the United States on a morale-building assignment, and his post-war reserve duty. 61 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
61 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/s63f6nwq |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019033 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63f6nwq |
| Title |
Page 29 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1018999 |
| OCR Text |
Show WALTER TEWART Ma 2 2000 going on. What could it be? What could it be?" It was the allied invasion of northwest Africa-Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers. That's where they landed on 8 November 1942. They got their pants shot off of them. They were trained Germans that had been in the Afrikan Korps, and the Americans were green as grass. They got in there and were shot up and losing until a fellow named Patton moved in. He changed the whole thing. Our airplanes, the 329th, the 328th, and the 409th squadrons, stayed down there over Christmas. Probably about February they came back. In fact, all our Christmas presents went to them, and all their Christmas presents came to us. Finally, in February or so, they brought our Christmas presents back up to us. Then we rejoined with them, with our other squadrons. There are four squadrons in a group. WIN: That was Christmas of 1942? W AL: Christmas of 1942. I was allowed to go up to Scotland, my old mission of 1938. With no bombing and just one squadron we couldn't do much. We did go on two or three missions is all. The biggest missions were these on patrol. They were quite easy, although we were attacked by JU-88s. We got some shots in our airplane, but shot down one JU-88 and damaged another who flew into the cloud deck smoking. For Christmas of '42, I got permission to go to Glasgow for four or five days. I was going up to stay with a member family that had fed us many times and had been so nice to us. Before I left I went to the mess hall and said, "Now, I don't want any special favors, but you've got food in here for me for three or four days, and I'm going to visit a family with two little boys and one little girl. They haven't seen food anything like this in a couple of years, 28 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63f6nwq/1018999 |
