| Title |
Melvin Lewis, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 16, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 402 and 403 |
| Alternative Title |
Melvin Lewis, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Lewis, Melvin, 1917-2010 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-07-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Pakistan; South Pacific; Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Guam; Shasta County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Lewis, Melvin, 1917-2010--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Flight instructors; Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (77 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Mel Lewis on July 16, 2001. This is from tape numbers 402 and 403 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mel Lewis (b. 1917) grew up in Redding, California, and operated a private airstrip before enlisting in the Army Air Corps one day after Pearl Harbor. He flew with the 14th Air Force in Pakistan, the 5th A.F. in the South Pacific, and the 7th A.F in Saipan and Guam. He was also a flight instructor in Greenville, South Carolina. 77 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
77 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/s6bk3bkc |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024582 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024513 |
| OCR Text |
Show M LL WI .J 2 01 wa a littl arrangement out there that was made lik a clock spring that tra 1 d r a verni r scale and the vernier scale was marked off in n1il s per h tu·. W 11, th wind would push against that clock spring and force it back, then you could r ad y ur tnil per hour on the scale, and hope it was pretty accurate (laughs). BBL: Oh, really? Wow (laughs). MEL: But, this man who owned the airplane, I didn't know it at the time- I didn't even figure that part out until later-but he was scared to death of it and he wanted to get rid of it. BBL: Oh, he was trying to dump it on somebody? MEL: Yeah. So I had a total of about an hour and fifteen minutes of instruction time with him before he turned it over to me (laughs). BBL: Really? MEL: Oh, yeah. I think after the end of the hour and fifteen minutes, I was flying it every bit as good as he was, and totally confident. BBL: Is that right? So all that practice did pay off, then. MEL: Oh, yeah. But I had a couple of problems here right off of the bat. One of them-okay, now, how do I get back to San Rafael? I came down here in a Greyhound bus but how do I find my way back to San Rafael? And one of the first things I found out is when you're up in an airplane, everything looks totally different than it does when you're down on the ground. So I figured, well, okay, the first big prominent landmark would be the Sunnyvale Blimp Hangar and that sits right on Highway 101. So I knew that Highway 101 ran north, right directly into San Francisco and at Vanness A venue, I knew that. And then as you go west on Vanness A venue, that would take you 10 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc/1024513 |
