| 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 24 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1023335 |
| OCR Text |
Show MIL WI KHAM 9 2 .. me a wh le m s of job for me to do. Finally old Bob Baumgartn r my £ r man, called down in the basement and said, 'Hey, Wick, come to 223· I got a job£ r you. went up there and he said, 'I want these put on the wall like this. It was grab bar for the bathtubs. I put every one in the hotel on. Then I was going to quit. I was going to go to England. I'd signed up and bought tickets and had our passport and everything to go to England in June. "Oh, no you're not going to quit. We'll give you a leave of absence. When you want to go to work, come down and see us." So I was off work. We went over to England and toured England and different places. We saw the Queen and that. My daughter was over there, stationed over there, she and her husband at the time. BEC: She was in the military or her husband was at the time? EMI: Both of them were in the military. She was in for seventeen years before she got a medical discharge. She's out right now on the medical. Anyway, after I came back, I'd been home for a while in the middle of August and I said, "Hey, I'm going back to work." I went down to the Hotel Utah and got my job back and started doing general maintenance work all over the whole hotel. BEC: How long did you end up doing that? EMI: Eight and a half years. BEC: Is that right? You had a whole other career. EMI: When they locked the doors to make it the Joseph Smith Building, that's when I got laid off and quit. That's when I got retirement out of it. So I was retired. BEC: Good for you. Did you take up another career after that? EMI: That was it. I was sixty-five then. BEC: You were ready to retire then? 23 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5ck1/1023335 |
