| Title |
David Lofgren, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, April 4, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 209 and 210 |
| Alternative Title |
David E. Lofgren, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Lofgren, David E., 1922-2006 |
| Contributor |
Kelly, Luke; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Germany; Philippines; Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Lofgren, David E., 1922-2006--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 |
FBI |
| Description |
Transcript (58 pages) of an interview by Luke Kelly with David E. Lofgren on April 4, 2001. This is from tape numbers 209 and 210 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Lofgren (b. 1922) was born in Butlerville, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. He attended Utah State University before going to work for the FBI in 1941. He entered the army in December 1942, and saw his first combat in Cologne, Germany, with the 342nd Infantry. After the war in Europe was over, Lofgren was shipped to the Philippines. 58 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
58 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/s67963xd |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021680 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67963xd |
| Title |
Page 31 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021651 |
| OCR Text |
Show D V DLOFGREN m ss hall kitchen and such out there, and they would cook dinn r r u . n th 1n around with the little girl playing the organ. I was teaching th m M rm n h t teaching us how to say it in German. And we had wonderful time. he only pla I r to go back to was to Pur lang, (?) Austria and see if that family was still there. I want d to tak my wife back, but I never got around to it. Then, of course, the war was over, and we were shipped back to- I think we shipped back out ofLe Havre. But, anyway, when I got onboard ship the mill worker had made my boxes. I had two of them. But this was the German officer's knife. And I don't think it had stuck anything bigger, or more hazardous, than a birthday cake. But when I got onboard ship they told us that they had set up this booth and were redeeming German cash because, see, a lot of us were using German cash in Germany. I had that, among other things, in my pocket. One mark was worth ten cents. No wait a minute. Yeah, a mark was worth ten cents; ten marks to make a dollar. And here I am with a - but once we got onboard ship they wouldn't trade. Here I sit with ... LUK: A fifty thousand mark souvenir. DAV: Of course, it was worth it. In Germany we ran into a number. Now that's a very unique looking thing. For what would you use aluminum foil? Our pilots would throw them out of the plane, and they'd unravel, and the German radar would go ... LUK: Would pick them up. DAV: And, so, a fighter pilot could go in and go "zzzzzzz, zzzzzzz," and the report would come to the Germans that we've got at least a hundred bombers coming in. And I have kept that. In the Philippines they had what they called- I got acquainted with a lot of Philipinos and |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67963xd/1021651 |
