| Title |
Lloyd T. Adamson, Brigham City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, October 20, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 132 |
| Alternative Title |
Lloyd T. Adamson, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Adamson, Loyd T., 1920-2006 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-10-20 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States; England; Germany |
| Subject |
Adamson, Loyd T., 1920-2006--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
National Guard; B-17 bomber; B-25 bomber; Ferry pilot |
| Description |
Transcript (47 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Loyd T. Adamson on October 20, 2000. This is from tape number 132 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Lloyd Adamson (b. 1920) recalls his youth in Ogden, Utah, and joining the National Guard when he was sixteen. After Pearl Harbor he applied for flight training and ended up flying B-25s and B-17s. Adamson discusses his missions over Europe and his postwar military career. 47 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
47 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/s6vd8xpk |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021731 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vd8xpk |
| Title |
Page 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021710 |
| OCR Text |
Show Loyd T. Adamson October 20, 2000 soon as I touched down both parachutes went out, and it slowed me right down immediately. And then my tail-gunner came up to me and he said another guy that's been hit has been following you in. I didn't know at that point that another B-1 7 was following me in. And so I figured he might not have brakes either, and I'm sitting on the runway. And I figured he might run over me. So I ran the airplane right out into the snow and I buried it right up to the axles. It was so heavy, you know. But I cleared the runway, and this guy came in behind me. And the ground crew got us into Lille France. We left the airplanes there, both airplanes. And the next night the fighters came over and strafed both and burned both airplanes up. So we lost both airplanes anyway. That was probably the most exciting mission. WIN: LOYD: WIN: Well, you survived even if the planes didn't. Well, that was what was important, to get the crew back. Yeah. LOYD: Now, sometime later, a man wrote me and he said that he'd searched through archives and he'd found that two different pilots in the gth Air Force had landed and used parachutes as brakes. I was one, and somebody else was another. And he wanted my story. And I told him to contact my navigator, and he gave a good story. The guy got all the facts from my navigator. Now, another thing, two of us had done it, but only I had a picture of it. There was an infantryman off watching. We were shooting flares that we had wounded. And he figured he was going to see a big crash. And this guy come up and he got a picture of it all. And I've got the picture. It's in that book that I give you there. Anyway, this man that wrote me put that all in 28 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vd8xpk/1021710 |
