| Title |
Emile Eugene Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 9, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 655 |
| Alternative Title |
Emile Eugene Wickham, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Wickham, Emile Eugene, 1923-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2004-06-09 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Morocco; Alaska; Hill Air Force Base, Weber County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Wickham, Emile Eugene, 1923-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps; Aircraft mechanics |
| Description |
Transcript (26 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Emile Eugene Wickham on June 9, 2004. This is from tape number 655 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Wickham (b. 1923) describes his youth as the son of a Caterpillar salesman based in Oregon, Utah, and Colorado. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and trained in Utah, Texas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Nevada. He served in Detroit, Michigan, before being posted to Casablanca, where he spent eighteen months as an aircraft mechanic. Discharged at the end of the war, he reenlisted and was sent to Alaska, where he met and married his wife before being discharged again in 1947. He worked at Hill Air Force Base, both as a mechanic and on the flight line, for over twenty-eight years. 26 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
26 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/s68w5ck1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023339 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5ck1 |
| Title |
Page 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023333 |
| OCR Text |
Show MIL WI KH M 20 ... flight t t g tting an aircraft pr pared for flight. hat wa working ut id 11 th tim 11 year round, winter summer whatever. It was still the b st j b. BEC: Because of the work or the people? EMI: All of it. People were just better there, it seemed like. I always did like that kind of thing, working on aircraft. It was just the idea. I worked on the F -84 the F -102, the TF -1 02, then the F -4. After I 1e ft, that's when they got the F -16. BEC: Did you ever get a chance to go up and fly in one of those jets? EMI: I didn't get a chance. I went out on a high-speed taxi check. BEC: Is that right? EMI: Zero to 145 knots, back down to zero in eleven seconds. That's moving. You could start it up, pull that throttle over and hit the after-burner to get its speed up in a hurry to get the wheel off the ground to see if they had nose wheel shimmy. He'd get the nose wheel off the ground. Then he brought it back down and pulled the drag chute to stop it before he hit the end of the runway. BEC: That must have been a thrill. EMI: He asked me if I wanted to go and I said, "Yes, I sure do." I would have liked to have gone up in one, but I never went that far. BEC: That's too bad. EMI: My brother, Robert, was a pilot and he loved that. He went to Las Vegas to pick up a lieutenant commander. He left Las Vegas headed for Amarillo, Texas, and his plane exploded over Lake Mead. BEC: Did they ever figure out what happened? 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5ck1/1023333 |
