| 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 23 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024524 |
| OCR Text |
Show MELLEWI JlJ 1 2 01 BBL: Good for life? MEL: Good for life. All you had to do to keep it up was g t a m di al certificate and stuff like that. But I've got that-still have that licens . BBL: Oh, that's cool. I didn't know they had something like that. MEL: Yeah. It was interesting stuff. BBL: Yeah. So that brings you-you were probably about twenty years old, about right now in our story, is that correct? MEL: BBL: MEL: BBL: Yes. Yeah. So that would make it about 1937? Yeah. Uh-huh. That's right, '36, '37. Yeah. And you said that you-did you continue going through high school all during this time? MEL: Yeah, off and on. I missed a lot of high school, but I was always able to make it up. BBL: Oh, really? MEL: 'Cause, I had-you know, the high school that we went to in San Rafael was a kind of a caste system. There was a very sharp dividing lane between the "has" and the "has-nots," there. And if you were one of the well-to-do families, or anything like that, you could do no wrong. If you were on the other side of the tracks, you could do no good. BBL: Oh. 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc/1024524 |
