| Title |
Malcolm J. MacGregor, Park City, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, January 3, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 476, 477, and 478 |
| Alternative Title |
Malcolm MacGregor, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
MacGregor, Malcolm J., 1923- |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-01-03 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England; France; Germany; New York, United States |
| Subject |
MacGregor, Malcolm J., 1923- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; Prisoners of war--United States; Prisoners of war--Germany |
| Keywords |
D-Day; 702nd Bomber Squadron; Bombardier; POWs |
| Description |
Transcript (121 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Malcolm J. MacGregor on January 3, 2002. This is from tape numbers 476, 477, and 478 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
MacGregor (b. 1923) recalls his childhood in rural New York and describes learning about Pearl Harbor and attempting to enlist in the Air Corps. He was drafted into the army and was assigned training as a combat engineer. Shortly after that he was transferred to the 8th Air Force and sent to bombardier school. MacGregor talks about his training and the trip to England. His first mission was on D-Day with the 702nd Bomber Squadron. He was shot down over Germany and describes his capture and treatment as a prisoner of war. 121 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
121 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/s63n42p9 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Prisoners of war |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021587 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63n42p9 |
| Title |
Page 32 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021495 |
| OCR Text |
Show Malcolm J. MacGregor Janua 2002 MAL: It wasn't the Salt Palace, I don't think. It wasn't called that. I think it was som thing before that. The only definitive memory I have about Salt Lake I guess is I did meet my crew before we went to Boise. I think I remember around Christmas time we were walking down alt Lake and my copilot, named Pinkey, ... BEN: Pinkey? MAL: Yep. He had red hair. He was a big ex-football player for Texas Christian University. Pinkey had his wife with him and they were walking down the street. He was smoking a pipe and he wasn't used to people saluting him because, like me, he hadn't been an officer for very long. All of a sudden somebody saluted him and he had his wife in his left arm and he threw his pipe up in the air so he could salute. When the pipe came down, of course, it broke on the sidewalk. That's a memory I have. Pinkey was kind of disgusted. He didn't know we had all that saluting stuff. Air Force was not trained to do much saluting. BEN: That's funny. MAL: In fact, later, I got in trouble over that but I was in London. I was in London on leave and this was about halfway through my tour so I had probably close to 20 missions. I had medals and stuff. I was in London and I didn't see this guy but, apparently, he was a major in the Quarter Master Corp and he started to chew me out because I didn't salute him. He stopped just in time because I was about to tell him to go to hell. If they court marshaled me, then I couldn't fly. At that time, we were short of crews and I was essential so I knew that my colonel wasn't going to court marshal me for a chicken shit thing like not saluting. BEN: Yeah, they'd let things slide by a lot more. MAL: Oh, yeah, I was a second lieutenant at the time. I was about to get my first lieutenant 30 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63n42p9/1021495 |
