| Title |
Lloyd E. McCleary, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Joel Calderon, August 28th, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 298 |
| Alternative Title |
Lloyd E. McCleary, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
McCleary, Lloyd E. (Lloyd Everald), 1924- |
| Contributor |
Calderon, Joel C.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-08-28 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany |
| Subject |
McCleary, Lloyd E. (Lloyd Everald), 1924- --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 |
Dachau |
| Description |
Transcript (38 pages) of an interview by Joel C. Calderon with Lloyd E. McCleary on August 28, 2001. This is from tape number 298 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
McCleary was in the Army Reserves when the war began. He was in the 7th Army under General Patch and saw combat in France and Germany. 38 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| 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/s6fv0k97 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020563 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fv0k97 |
| Title |
Page 37 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1020559 |
| OCR Text |
Show LLOYD MCCLEARY u u t 2 2001 four or five men out of my company. This was still when I was a serg ant n w. JOE: Right. LLO: And they were prisoners of war. They were overrun in at little town called Inglesheim. I remember that vividly. And they ended up in the Tyrol in Austria cutting wood. That was their labor. The Germans parceled these prisoners out to small towns, and had a home guard. They weren't even a National Guard, they were the old fogies, you know, the World War I types. And they built a little stockade with a house in it, or around a house, and they'd keep them there and lock them up at night. And at daytime they'd bring them out and they'd go out and cut wood, or work on roads, or whatever they were going to do under the direction of these guys. Well, here they were down in a little town near Schwaz, Austria, which is just up the Inn River from Innsbruck. Not very far from Innsbruck. And they come out one morning and nobody's around. And so they're standing around and no guard comes and no guard was there. Usually there was one around at night. So they opened the gate and go out in the street and all the houses are closed and everything. So they finally found somebody and they asked, "What's going on?" And they say, "The Americans are in Salzburg." And these guys say, "Which way is Salzburg?!" They had a horse and wagon for this wood detail. So the five of them pile on the wagon and they go where these guys are pointing, where Salzburg is. They are like three 35 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fv0k97/1020559 |
