| Title |
Heber Baumgartner, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 24, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 445 & 446 |
| Alternative Title |
Heber Baumgartner, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Baumgartner, Heber K., 1920- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-04-24 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Belgium; Netherlands; Germany; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Baumgartner, Heber K., 1920- --Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Heber Baumgartner on April 24, 2004. From tape numbers 445 and 446 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Baumgartner was born on 21 May 1920 in Salt Lake City. He discusses his family, schooling, and the Depression. Inducted into the army on August 1944, he describes boot camp at Camp Hood, Texas, and being shipped to England on the Queen Mary. He served in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. He sustained a knee injury from a shell concussion and was transported to a hospital in England before being sent back to the United States. He was discharged from Mitchell Hospital in San Diego in November 1945. Recipient of the Purple Heart. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 43 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
43 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/s6x65q10 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027678 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x65q10 |
| Title |
Page 21 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027655 |
| OCR Text |
Show HEBER BAUMGARTNER PRIL 2-t 2002 down-we'd crawl down there and live fire was shooting over us. And w d g t t th pillbox and take a grenade and I don't know if I threw it in to the fellers that wer firing at us or not. But I wasn't going to have that baby roll back down into the trench. We'd do that, things like that and there was one lad that they wouldn't let throw a grenade you know. In training, we'd pull the pin and throw it to teach us how to do it. He would hang on to it, when he went to throw it, it would go up and down. We had dummy grenades at first, and then the live one and there was no way he could do it. We had goldbrickers when we'd hike out to our camp, out to our programs. They would drop out, before we got off the company street. BEC: Something started hurting? HEB: Oh, yes. I knew one fellow who was thirty-four years old. I was twenty-five. He was thirty-four and we'd been in training for a few weeks. One day, somebody started calling him "Pop". You know, he'd get a kick out of it. All the sudden he got old. He said, "Oh my back! I got a daughter at home; fifteen." He says, "I got a daughter at home, fifteen. I'm an old man!" BEC: Oh really? HEB: He got discharged. BEC: Oh, really? HEB: Medical. Bad back. Somebody found out somewhere that you can't legally diagnose a bad back. BEC: Isn't that something? HEB: On our twenty-mile marches and our ten mile marches, I made up my mind that they weren't going to beat me. I finished every one of them. And I carried the same 21 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x65q10/1027655 |
