| 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 89 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025738 |
| OCR Text |
Show Robert . Irion ptember 20'h 2 02 ROB: There an exhilaration. Yeah I have to admit it, you get a certain high wh n y u can really do some damage to something that's an enemy weapon there. When your going after it your heart beats faster, your blood pressure probably goes up, you get a pounding and it's a high. BEN: Have you hit trains? ROB: Oh, yeah! BEN: Any ones that stand out? ROB: Well, probably the first one I hit made me think about it more because I thought, "Wow, here I am a railroad man and I am out here shooting at trains as one of the first things I'm shooting at!" BEN: Did you ever get the boiler? ROB: Yeah. Yeah. I did on one. I've got some tape if you want to look at it, but we'll go back to your things here. BEN: How about getting hit from things exploding, is that a worry or not, do you know? Getting hit by your own ordinance? ROB: Yeah, yeah. I have one real good friend died just this last year that, before I got to the group, about a month before I got there, they went down and strafed a train and he picked out a couple of cars in this thing that, evidently, were loaded with ammunition. And it blew sky high! He said, "All I can see is wheels, car parts, everything, flying by in front of me." And of course some of them would hit him, too. And he's flying into a ball of fire that caught part of his surfaces on fire. Burned the fabric off of them. He had things like that happening to him. 87 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bs0rd1/1025738 |
