| 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 59 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029456 |
| OCR Text |
Show Michael choenf eld 6 t b r 2009 distance a bit. You could see them running around in the trench line and ho ting at u . We could see them launching RPGs, because RPGs don't have thi long range. Where these high buildings were was probably about a half mile away. You could see them up there launching the RPGs up through the air trying to reach over to us. They would get over to our position. So it was just kind of, the fight went on. The other thing they were doing, this Ba' ath Party house, what they were doing was hijacking vehicles. There was a side street that we couldn't see that connected into a road that came directly into Tomsac's machine gun position. I was back trying to organize things and Staff Sergeant Ivers, I think I was trying to bring 1 st Platoon in. I can't remember exactly. Maybe I was talking to one of my platoons. I know from when I left my lines to go out and help find 1st Platoon and direct them in, which was probably a stupid idea, but we had this fight going on. I didn't want to send anybody out. I didn 't want to send some Marines out there, so I said, "Okay, I'll go find them, sir," to the company commander and I went out to find them. I look back now and it was me out where Captain Massey had been driving through, getting shot at. Anyways, what they were doing was hijacking these civilian vehicles that were trying to get out of there. They were basically trying to do a suicide mission, driving a vehicle into Tomsac's machine gun position, because he was basically keeping this large group. I sent in [WA V13, -7:32] it was probably a couple hundred people. But it had to be 300-plus people that were over there. Really I just had one squad facing them. So we were pretty heavily outnumbered. And that didn't count what was going on further on, deeper into the battlefield, where these trench lines were going on. So we were taking a pretty good hit. 17 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bz883z/1029456 |
