| Title |
Mark Cooper, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 6, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 399 |
| Alternative Title |
Mark Cooper, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Cooper, Mark, 1915-2006 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-06-06 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Lexington, Dawson County, Nebraska, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Seattle, King County, Washington, United States |
| Subject |
Cooper, Mark, 1915-2006--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Aviation mechanics (Persons)--United States; World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Mather field; Ellington Field; Chanute Field; Navigators; Military aircraft; DC-3: A-26; B-29 |
| Description |
Transcript (55 pages) of interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Mark Cooper on June 6, 2001. This is tape number 399 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mark Cooper (b. 1915) enlisted in the Air Force in 1942. He was on a B-29 ground crew. 55 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
55 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/s6xh1qdh |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); War work |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019135 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xh1qdh |
| Title |
Page 20 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019097 |
| OCR Text |
Show MARK COOPER JUNE 6, 2001 the meantime I d quit and gone to work for the-well, yeah, I said I went to work for the truck lease service and that was where we were living when I went into the Service. BEC: MAR: ERM: MAR: BEC: ERM: BEC: MAR: Oh. Well our boy our oldest boy, was born in November of 1941. He's the one we lost. We didn't get to keep him We lost him when he was- at birth. You say he died at birth? Uh-huh. Oh. And then we moved out to this little house and it was about the time they registered everybody for the draft and stuff like that and I got classified 1-A. So my friend and I decided we were going to go down and enlist rather than wait for the draft and get stuck in the infantry or something. We went down to the recruiting center and there were all kind of officers in there, Navy, Army Marines, Coast Guard Air Force and everything. And I said, ' Well, what are you going to get into? ' And he said 'Well, I don't know." I said, Well, let's take it this way. We'll go in the place and the first one I'll go in and the second one you go in." He said, "Okay." So that's what we did. I went in the Air Force and he went in the Navy. BEC: MAR: BEC: MAR: Is that right? Yeah. A real scientific method there. Yeah. Real scientific (laughter). That was in the fall of 1942 and then October was our wedding anniversary, October the 2nd. And October the 5th I went into 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xh1qdh/1019097 |
