| Title |
Michael Schoenfeld, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by John C. Worsencroft, August 31 and October 6, 2009: Saving the Legacy tape nos. IA-3 and IA-9 |
| Alternative Title |
Michael Schoenfeld, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Schoenfeld, Michael |
| Contributor |
Worsencroft, John C., 1981-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-08-31; 2009-10-06 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Kuwait; Iraq |
| Subject |
Schoenfeld, Michael--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (40, 32 pages) of interviews by John C. Worsencroft with Michael Schoenfeld on August 31 and October 6, 2009. From tape numbers IA-3 and IA-9 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Schoenfeld was born and raised in Utah. His father was a thirty plus year veteran of the Marine Corps Reserve, which nurtured his interest in joining. He joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1986. Bootcamp was a great experience despite some of the challenges. He was activated after 9/11 and went to Iraq, experiencing SCUD alerts and passing by signs of earlier destruction during Desert Storm. He recalls the tragedy of losing his Staff Sergeant, their first casualty, in a humvee driving mishap. Later his unit was involved in a heavy firefight in an Iraqi neighborhood where he almost ran out of ammo before the Heavy Weapons commander rushed in with a load for the unit. Michael enjoys his continuing work in the Reserves and has no regrets. Interviewed by John C. Worsencroft. 40 pages and 32 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
40 pages and 32 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/s6bz883z |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029472 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bz883z |
| Title |
Page 47 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029444 |
| OCR Text |
Show Michael Schoenfeld 6 t b r 2009 were lucky to get out of there unscathed. No incidences other than gathered additi na] Intel. One thing that did occur, although we didn 't get a humanitarian service medal out of it, the battalion started a humanitarian service mission as soon as we had basically secured the town. Saddam Hussein had turned off the water several years earlier, except for those Ba'ath Party members. We had some engineers at the battalion level, talking electrical engineers or civil engineers that went in and tried to identify what they could do. We also worked on rations for them, even though we didn't have our own, per se, the battalion started identifying rations and getting it to some. I believe it was an orphanage that was identified and some other things that went on. It actually ended up being, with all the tragedy that happened to the battalion, there were some good things that came out of that. It would be kind of nice to see what that town was like now because it was pretty beat up when we got there. After that, we kind of fell in line again with the rest of 1st Marine Division as we moved up towards Al Kut. I believe it was Al Kut-I need a map now (laughs). Al Kut. Once again, we in this big long convoy, just thousands and thousands of vehiclesprobably not thousands and thousands; at least hundreds and hundreds of vehicles. Word had kind of come down that the regimental commander had decided to change plans. About this time, General Mattis said the regimental commander was moving too slow, and he ended up relieving him. But basically what had happened is we started heading towards Al Kut and the next thing you know, we're making this big U-tum with all these thousands of vehicles on this little two-lane highway to bypass Al Kut, because I guess there had been some Intelligence that the Fedayeen soldiers, much like they had been 5 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bz883z/1029444 |
