| 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 18 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024519 |
| OCR Text |
Show MELL WI J L 16, 20 1 thr ugh th area for about three or four miles. The land along th canal wa flat and mooth but when it rained, it turned into blue gumbo mud. BBL: Uh-huh. MEL: Because the land was practically worthless, the man who owned it wanted to sell it for just about any price. Let's see-what was it? Ten dollars a lot-that's what I think it was-and you could take any lot you wanted. So-was it ten dollars? No. It was a hundred dollars for a two hundred and fifty foot lot. So I bought five lots in a row for five hundred dollars total, for which I paid ten dollars down and ten dollars per month. And that was my landing strip (laughs). And that worked out really well, because a couple earlier people that came down there helped me out financially a little bit to keep their airplanes down there too, so we were able to build a little wooden hangar and a couple of things like that. BBL: too good. MEL: BBL: MEL: Wow. How about that? That's funny. Except when it rained, it wasn't No, but we had that pretty well figured out, too. Oh, did you? We just didn't fly when it rained (laughs). So we had, oh, three or four airplanes down there. We had mine, Charlie Moser, who had a Thomas Morse Scott down there, and even the county sheriff had his airplane down there. BBL: MEL: BBL: MEL: Oh, is that right? So it, it got to be pretty popular. Well, am I talking too much? Oh, not at all. This is perfect. We got to selling rides on weekends up there. 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc/1024519 |
