| 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 42 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1024543 |
| OCR Text |
Show M LLEWI l 2001 again was with another group that totaled about thr e hundr d t Mi ula, M ntan , up to Montana State University. And there we were given in three months, what an rdinary college student would get in three years. And you had to pass-eighty-fiv p rc nt r better. And that was it. And, of course, this was all academic stuff. It was math all the way up to calculus. And no slide rules or anything like that; you had to figure it out by formula all through your head. We got geography, a little bit of navigation; got everything but flying (laughs). And so that part lasted three months and again I was extremely surprised when I found out I graduated amongst the top five. BBL: Wow. Just keeps getting better and better as you go along. MEL: Yeah. Well, I did have a lot of help, because one of my roommates there was a fellow by the name of Earl Lee. He and I became close friends through the service. And Earl was a graduate engineer from Nevada. So he helped me; he didn't do any problems for me, but especially when it came to physics and math and things like that, he told me how to do it and then I had to do it, which was good. BBL: Yeah. Helpful. MEL: So that worked out pretty good. And then when we finished that we were sent off to different flying schools. And, again, out of that three hundred, there was only about sixty-five percent of the group that made it out of that. BBL: Yeah. MEL: So I was sent down to Santa Maria, California, for primary flight training and that was kind of interesting because I was more experienced than my flight instructors were. BBL: Oh, is that right? I imagine so. 39 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk3bkc/1024543 |
