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Show THI I AN I TERVIEW WITH ROBERT B. FOR GRENON JANUARY 14, 2003. THE INTERVIEWER I BECKY B. LLOYD. THI I THE PROJE T " A VING THE LEGACY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF UTAH'S WORLD WAR II VETERANS." TAPE No. 560. BEC: This is an interview with Bob Forsgren at his home in Bountiful, Utah. Today's date is January 14, 2003. This is part of the "Saving the Legacy Project". My name is Becky Lloyd. Let's start with when and where you were born. BOB: I was born in Brigham City, May 19, 1922. We lived there for a year. Then, because there was no permanent source of employment for my father, we moved to Salt Lake. He worked for Morrison and Merrill for about thirty-five years. I was reared in Salt Lake. I went to the Liberty School for elementary school, Lincoln Junior High, and South High. I graduated from South High in 1941. I went to the University of Utah for a year and a quarter and then was drafted into the military service. I went through the process at Fort Douglas, Utah, in January of 1942. For my basic training, I went to Camp Robinson in Little Rock. It was horrible. I hated the place. I went to town one time, and that was enough. Luckily, in being processed at Fort Douglas, they gave us some typing tests. I'd taken just one year in junior high. The qualifying amount was thirty-six words per minute, without error. So, that was a godsend to me because as soon as I got through with my basic training, I was assigned to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. I worked at Third Army headquarters for the duration of my service, which was about thirty months. We went overseas, I think, in January of '43. We were at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for about two months, until we could get a boat to go overseas. At that time, we found out that our commanding general was going to be George Patton. We were all terrified because we remembered the incident with the boy in the hospital, where he slapped him |
