| Title |
Lowell S. Flamm, Pleasant View, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, February 14, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 183 and 184 |
| Alternative Title |
Lowell S. Flamm, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Flamm, Lowell S., 1923-2011 |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2000-02-14 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Rexburg, Madison County, Idaho, United States; Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana, United States; France; Germany; Austria |
| Subject |
Flamm, Lowell S., 1923-2011--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
12th Armored Division in Europe; Le Havre; Maginot Line; Herrlisheim; Adelmannsfelden; Strasbourg; Colmar; Frankfort; Danube River; Black Forest; Free French; Occupied Austria |
| Description |
Transcript (83 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Lowell S. Flamm on February 14, 2000. This is from tape numbers 183 and 184 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Lowell Flamm (b. 1923) recounts stories of his parents in Rexburg, Idaho, and recalls growing up in Billings, Montana, during the Depression. He joined the National Guard at 15 and served two years. He was drafted in March 1943 and accepted into OCS, eventually ending up with the 12th Armored Division in Europe. He discusses Le Havre, the Maginot Line, Herrlisheim, Adelmannsfelden, Strasbourg, Colmar, Frankfort, the Danube River, the Black Forest, and occupation duty in Austria. His stories of army life include the cold, propaganda and rumors, a wartime birth, being wounded, close escapes from death, army nurses, fighting with the Free French, and experiences with German civilians. 83 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
83 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/s6v71ht1 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026680 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v71ht1 |
| Title |
Page 28 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026623 |
| OCR Text |
Show w AMM LOW: That became UT P. I was th r until about th nd h 1 h r 1 you can imagine this: two thousand young Gis all coll g kid all d ing 11 nd all a sudden, they called us right after Christmas and said-well thi wa in March f '44- "We're disbanding the school." We'd just finished the quarter I guess. "We're disbanding the school, and you're all called up." Now, all of these kids were potential officer material, but only one guy out of the whole two thousand got sent to OCS and the rest of us became cannon fodder. We were all sent to the Twelfth Armor Division, which was at Camp Barkley in Abilene, Texas. And we immediately started our training then in the armored infantry. I was in the armored infantry. I can remember writing my mother a letter when I got into the anti-aircraft telling her "Well, this isn't so bad, at least they didn't put me in the infantry." And here, I ended up in the armored infantry because I had chosen to go to ASTP. But, in thinking about it, in retrospect it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me, because, if I'd have gone to OCS at that time, I'd have ended up in the Pacific, and the chances of me being dead-there was probably a sixty percent chance of a second lieutenant dying. So, probably I'm here today because I made that choice. And we were told when we went to-I'm trying to remember, Camp Barkley-when we went to Camp Barkley our officer told us that we would be in combat by July of that year. Now this was the end of March. So they already had plans for us. So, since we'd all been through basic, it was just a matter of learning the equipment, and the drills, and the squads, and so forth. At the time I was a private first class. They didn't even know that I'd been in the National Guard and had been a corporal but that's a later 27 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v71ht1/1026623 |
