| 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 53 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029450 |
| OCR Text |
Show Michael Schoenfeld 6 t b r 20 9 didn't want them to close to us. It was kind of a weird situation at lea t for me, b cau e we've got to kind of be friendly but at the same time we've got this mission to do. Anyway we continued to move. Then the sniper fire started and 3rd Platoon came across in front of me. Company commander just told me to keep going on the path that I was going on and he would go over there. Then all of a sudden the crowd just disappeared. There was nobody and it was a real eerie feeling. As we continued up we went past this big Catholic, it looked like a Catholic cathedral, but it was really probably a ... oh, I can't think of the name of the Christian religion that's been over there for centuries, but this Christian cathedral. We know it was that because it had a big cross on it. Parked right outside of it was this bus that was still running. We searched the bus. It looked like a military-type vehicle. We continued on and Comm was bad. I was told to hold up. I didn't particularly like the order, but we were probably three quarters, half a mile to three-quarters ahead of the rest of the company at this point. We generally had an idea of where we were at because of our GPS, but because of the map, I didn't know how good the maps were. Well, we're sitting there waiting and then just kind of weird things. A sheepherder goes through. We're in the middle of Baghdad-not in the middle of Baghdad, but kind of in the suburbs of Baghdad, but still, you know, it was fairly nice housing. It looked like a pretty decent neighborhood for being a slum. But just this sheepherder goes through. It was a surreal, kind of loose sheep. I just remember all the garbage. You could see where they'd been burning the garbage because there was no trash pickup. Then out of the blue this gentleman started walking up and down our lines. I could have swore he was British. He had red hair, fair complexion, and as he passed 11 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bz883z/1029450 |
