| Title |
Kenneth R. Madsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston Erickson, February 5 - 8, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 178 to 182 |
| Alternative Title |
Kenneth R. Madsen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Madsen, Kenneth R., 1925-2003 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-02-05; 2001-02-06; 2001-02-07; 2001-02-08 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Germany; Utah County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Madsen, Kenneth R., 1925-2003--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; World War, 1939-1945--Medical care |
| Keywords |
Froidenberg Farm; Alsace-Lorraine; Wounded; Lawyers |
| Description |
Transcript (126 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Kenneth R. Madsen on February 5-8, 2001. This is from tape numbers 178, 179, 180, 181, and 182 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Madsen (b. 1925) details his family genealogy and recalls his childhood in rural Utah. He was inducted into the army when he turned eighteen and was assigned to the 86th Infantry Division and sent to Louisiana for jungle warfare training. Sent to Europe, instead of the Pacific, Madsen saw combat in France and Germany. Other topics covered include descriptions of the Alsace-Lorraine area, the deaths of fellow soldiers, the "Froidenberg Farm" skirmish, being wounded and receiving medical care, and his long convalescence including time spent at Bushnell military hospital in Brigham City, Utah. Madsen also talks about going to law school, being recruited by Ernest Wilkinson when he was a Senior, and joining the firm of Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker, which specialized in Indian claims cases. He left there for a job at AT&T, from which he retired. 126 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
126 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/s6zw3k5k |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Medical care |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022305 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3k5k |
| Title |
Page 72 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022248 |
| OCR Text |
Show THR.MADSEN till serving overseas whose name was Arthur Shaw. When he came back th y married and they did. I kept in touch with her for quite sometime and then I lost touch sometime after she was married. I know she had two children. r uit Anyway, she came down and the people in the hospital who saw us over a period of tim 1 started to think that we were brother and sister and, with our coloring I could easily see how th y could make the mistake. And when I say she was a very lovely lady-I don't mean to say that I was her counterpart-but as soon ... Oh, one thing I forgot, when I woke up from that surgery my leg was bent at a right angle at the knee and I was in a cast at a right angle. And if you've ever slept in a bed with your one leg out on a chair-that's what I had to do for the next-quite sometime. Again, the cast was so strong that I don't think you could have broken it with a sledgehammer. In fact, one day I had been up to the surgery ward and they had taken the old cast off and put a new one on and it was still kind of wet so I had to go back to my room in a wheelchair and one of the GI's volunteered to push me back to my room. Unfortunately, I was on the first floor and the surgery was on the second floor. What am I trying to say? They weren't corridors, but the floor was slanted from one floor to the other. WIN: Ramps? KEN: Yeah, a ramp. I guess there were stairs. I never saw any stairs but there must have been stairs and, well, probably elevators but I didn't ever see them. Anyway, this Gl-and I have to say I appreciated him, and still do-he decided that he would take me for a little ride. So, we did take a little bit of a ride on the second floor and then when the time came for him to take me down to the first floor-at the end of each ramp on the first floor there was a flight of steps, about five or 70 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3k5k/1022248 |
