| 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 52 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021515 |
| OCR Text |
Show Malcolm J. MacGregor could see the flash of the gun. So I'd see the flash and I'd start counting and it to k b ut 17 seconds for the shell to get up to us and explode. So I'm doing this and counting off the seconds and one of the guys called up and aid "For Christ's sake, Mac, will you stop counting!" One of the guys, a gunner in the waist call d up and said, "Lt. MacGregor, we got the biggest damn flak hole back here you've ever seen." I said, "Oh, for Christ's sake, you get a hole the size of a fifty-cent piece and you go all to pieces." So, anyway, there was no more talk about it. We got home and got on the ground. I got out of the plane, went back and looked and there was a hole about a foot long and about two and a half inches wide. So I followed it back and there was a hole in the rear bulkhead going into the waist of the plane. I followed it forward and right in the center of our airplane, through the center of the catwalk, was a hole where an 88 millimeter had gone up through the center of the plane, turned on through the bulkhead and went out the waist. And it hadn't exploded. That's probably about as close that I got to being blown out of the air. BEN: That wasn't a proximity fuse, probably an altitude ... MAL: It was probably set for altitude. Whether or not it was also to be set so it would blow up on proximity, I don't know. But it didn't, it went on out. That one I remember. BB: How about fighters? Did your plane ever encounter fighters? MAL: Only at the time I was shot down. BEN: That was the only time. MAL: Kassel Mission. We had 39 planes that took off to go on the mission. Four of them aborted and 35 got near the target but I didn't have to go up to the bombsite that day because it 50 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63n42p9/1021515 |
