| Title |
Robert B. Forsgren, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, January 14, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 560 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert B. Forsgren, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Forsgren, Robert B., 1922- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-01-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Europe; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Forsgren, Robert B., 1922- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Adjutant General's office; General George Patton |
| Description |
Transcript (21 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Robert B. Forsgren on January 14, 2003. This is from tape number 560 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Forsgren (b. 1922) recalls his Salt Lake City boyhood and describes being drafted into the army in 1942. He was assigned to Third Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and served there and at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, before heading overseas in January 1943. Forsgren reminisces about serving in the Adjutant General's office under General George Patton. 21 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
21 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/s647694z |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020409 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s647694z |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020392 |
| OCR Text |
Show ROBERT B. FOR GRE J ARY 14 200 BE : I was going to ask if the food ever improved? BOB: The only time it improved was we come home (laughs). And then we were on one of those liberty ships and it was so rough, you lost your appetite. But anyway at the war's end, we went to Bad Tolz. This was the SS headquarters, which was where they were training and all that. It was a fabulous place. We had an Olympic-sized swimming pool, clay tennis courts. We converted the soccer field into a ball diamond. We had a wet and dry cleaners. We had a movie theater and we had pretty good chow there. It was fabulous. You could get 100,000 men in the quadrangle there. Of course, you could look out and the Bavarian Alps were there. It was just beautiful, oh, a beautiful country. The water was the greatest water. Oh, it was a fantastic place. It was really, really good. That was just a little town there. We'd get liberty and go into town. But nobody had anything in their shops or anything. You'd just go in there. That was a great place there, I tell you. We stayed there and I think the war was over. I remember I had a three-day pass to go to Paris. That was the first day I was on the train, was when they bombed Hiroshima with the atomic bomb. So, I wrote my folks that I'd be home in a few months. That was in August. Yeah, that was August 'cause the war ended in May. But I should've stayed longer. Well, another thing, I was the head guy. I had about five guys working under me. We did all the battlefield appointments there. I was in the Adjutant General's office there, and I had five guys working under me. My brother, Jim, was over there. He was in the light tanks. He was in the tank corps. I knew his unit was going to be sent to the Pacific. That was in May. And so I asked the major if we could get him to come to our office. He said, "Oh, yeah." So, in about ten days, he was working for me. That was probably the worst mistake I ever made (laughs). I couldn't get him to work. 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s647694z/1020392 |
