| Title |
Robert E. Irion, Sandy, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, September 20, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 537, 538, and 539 |
| Alternative Title |
Robert E. Irion, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Irion, Robert E., 1923-2007 |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-09-20 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Scotland; England; Germany; Czechoslovakia; Kansas, United States |
| Subject |
Irion, Robert E., 1923-2007--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps |
| Description |
Transcript (142 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Robert E. Irion on September 20, 2002. This is from tape numbers 537, 538, and 539 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Irion (b. 1923) recalls his youth in Kansas and tells how he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in October 1942. He discusses his flight training in Arkansas, Alabama, and Florida. He served in the 505th and 339th Fighter Groups. 142 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
142 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/s6bs0rd1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025794 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bs0rd1 |
| Title |
Page 58 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025707 |
| OCR Text |
Show Robert . Irion pt m r 20'h 2 02 ROB: W ll it wa because he was a close friend. But we had lost well w had l t quite a few up to that time. Yeah. We probably lost - out of those twenty- ight - w probably lost almost twenty of them before that. BEN: From what I understand, I mean; you kind of get hardened. ROB: You kind of get to the point - BEN: - Did he just break through that? ROB: You get to the point ... You get numb. That's the only way I can describe it. You - somebody comes back from a mission and they said, "So and so got shot down today." And you get to almost like: "Oh? Oh. That's news, yeah." But you don' t get involved so much unless you are pretty tight with them. BEN: So did this affect you more? ROB: It did a little more than some just because we took leaves together. We went to London together. We tried to do a lot of things together from the time we'd been cadets. Like I say, he and this Ed Hesse, we all three had been good friends. And when Ed left us, why, Jonesy and I kind of hung together. Well, the alphabetical shuffle in the military did that to us. Because here we were always in the same group together because of our names being so close in the alphabet, Jones and Irion. But he was one I really hated to lose. We lost another one earlier, Lair Travis, the other guy that was lost of our five. He'd been shot down before that going down, again, ground strafing. And his best buddy was with him, Dick Thieme, and he came back and he was pretty upset about that because he was not convinced that they had made a very good attack on the place. 56 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bs0rd1/1025707 |
