| 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 29 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019106 |
| OCR Text |
Show MARK COOPER JUNE 6, 2001 MAR: Yeah. A lot bigger engine. And the airplane, well, was about the size of the B-25, but it was a lot more powerful and it had automatic bomb release on it; they could open the bomb bay doors and set the timer for a certain timer and punch a button and it would drop so many bombs at a time then it would stop. BEC: Yeah. So it was pretty high-tech for the time. MAR: It was high-tech. And then we-well, then we were up to the A-26 base, they assigned us to Chanute Field in Illinois. ERM: No. First you went to Marietta at Florida. MAR: Oh, yeah. Then I went to Pensacola, Florida, to a A-26 base down there. And went from Long Beach up this way and the train stopped at Lexington for a ten-day delay. Went into Chicago, south of Chicago, and down across there, these old slow trains, and changed trains a couple of times. ERM: This is on a troop train. MAR: Went down to Pensacola, Florida, and they picked us up in a bus there and went over to the base there in Florida and I was there about three weeks, I guess-a month. And the A-26 squadron had already been made up, two squadrons, and they'd already left the field. So they decided not to make another squadron so they sent us back, my buddy and I, was assigned a crew and they sent us back to Chanute Field in Illinois. BEC: Hold on one second. END OF SIDE A BEC: All right, we're back in business. So it's Chanute Field? 27 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xh1qdh/1019106 |
