| Title |
James M. (Jim) Powell, Park City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 11, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 647 |
| Alternative Title |
James M. (Jim) Powell, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Powell, James M. (Jim), 1923- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-03-11 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Italy; Wyoming; Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States |
| Subject |
Powell, James M. (Jim), 1923- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American; United States--Army--Mountain Division, 10th |
| Keywords |
Skiing |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Becky Lloyd with James M. Powell on March 11, 2004. This is from tape number 647 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Powell (b. 1923) was born in Powell, Wyoming, a town named after his ancestor, John Wesley Powell. He spent most of his childhood in Twin Falls, Idaho, and was working at Lockheed when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He volunteered for the ski troops and was sent to Camp Hale, near Leadville, Colorado, where his unit, the 10th Mountain Division, trained for three years before being sent to Italy. He describes his experiences in the Apennines Mountains, getting wounded, and the end of the war. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s69s3q93 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021762 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3q93 |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1021754 |
| OCR Text |
Show JAM M. (JIM) POWELL MAR H 11,2004 uch a good fighting outfit we were going to invade Tokyo. So we suddenly got ord r that took me away from the glacier climbing school. We were put on a ship and sent back to the United States. We were to go across the United States and get on boats and sail to Japan. So we were kind of a grim bunch of guys at that point, because that was the end of our fun. We all knew that taking Tokyo would be very difficult. So here we were on this liberty ship, sailing across the Atlantic. This is the really very exciting thing that happened. I had been a physics major at the University of California. I had a professor in physics, Emilio Segre. In one class, this is in freshman physics, he wrote, "E = mc2 ," on the board. He said, "That's a very important thing. Think about what that means." That's all he said. In my fraternity, one of my fraternity brother's father was the head of the physics department. So that's sort of the setting for the scene. We were two or three days out from New York Harbor when over our ship's PA system came the announcement that a very powerful bomb had been dropped on a town we had never heard of, Hiroshima, that blew up the whole city. Nobody on the ship believed it. They thought it was a joke. But several people on board ship, knowing I was a physics major, asked what I thought. I said, "I've got to think about that." I went down to my bunk and lay down and thought, trying to put things together. My fraternity brother, whose father was head of the physics department was going off to New Mexico every weekend. I would ask him, "What are you doing in New Mexico?" He would change the subject. I was thinking, "What in the world would cause a physics major to go to New Mexico? What does New Mexico have?" Snap. Space. No people. Then I thought ofE = mc2 that Segre had taught. It turns out the Segre was one of the five men who developed the atomic bomb. He was working on it when he was teaching us. My fraternity brother was 22 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69s3q93/1021754 |
