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Title	Harry A. Moyer, Park City, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann. Saving the legacy tap no. 613
Alternative Title	Harry A. Moyer, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah
Creator	Moyer, Harry A., 1920-
Contributor	Bahlmann, Benjamin; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date	2002-11-22
Date Digital	2015-09-16
Access Rights	I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah.
Spatial Coverage	Africa; Sicily; China
Subject	Moyer, Harry A., 1920- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern
Description	Transcript (115 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Harry A. Moyer on November 22, 2002. This is from tape number 613 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project
Collection Number and Name	Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010
Abstract	Moyer (b. 1920) was in the aviation cadet program at the University of Akron at the time of Pearl Harbor. He was called to active duty in January 1942. He discusses his flight training at length. Other topics covered include joining the 33rd Fighter Group, Africa and Sicily, aerial combat, his views on General Montgomery, contact with Sicilian civilians, the merits of various aircraft, Anzio, being stationed in China, marriage, and duty as a flight instructor. 115 pages.
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Genre	oral histories (literary works)
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Extent	115 pages
Language	eng
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Topic	Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945)
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Title	Page 66
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OCR Text	Show HARRY A. MOYER ovember 22, 2002 BEN: Did you ever hit armor? Did you ever hit a convoy or tanks did you ever encounter ... HAR: Mostly, the stuff that we saw was just an area in Italy. Because they said, Here s a crossroads, go hit the fourth quadrant. Put your bombs over there. Go strafing there. Strafe north of this road," or whatever. So that's what we did. Mostly it was foxholes type of things out there. We've got frag bombs, which were clusters for against troops, and then when we were bombing with 500 pounders that was probably against trench tanks or that type of thing. Impalements. And then we were on patrol over the beachhead, and the Germans would come through- 109's and 190's- and I was on patrol on, I guess about the 17th or 18th. We had a radar patroller, you know, but the guys were coming in pretty low, so he couldn't pick up the strafers, you know, the 1 09's. But we'd pick them up and they'd head out towards the valley, and towards the pass out there, and so we'd pick them up and they'd always be heading that way. I picked up two of them, and was chasing them. One of them was getting away, and I was closing in on another. BEN: Just you, or are you flying the lead, or an element lead? HAR: I didn't fly in a lead- I patrolled. So I had this guy, and I was firing at him and knocking him down, and here comes a Spitfire - passed me like this! He comes like that, he's going in front of the other guy in front of me. It's going to be fun getting away. BEN: And he's signaling you keep on coming? 65
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