| 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 60 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029457 |
| OCR Text |
Show Michael choenfeld 6 ctob r 2009 At the same time they were trying to do some flanking maneuver with maJler groups, but Tomsac's machine gun was basically keeping this big crowd from really flanking us heavy. So they were trying to take it out with a vehicle. I think the final tally of vehicles they drove down there were twelve before one hit the position. He stayed in the position with the gun up until that vehicle hit the position. If it weren't for him, I don't know what would have happened that day, but it was pretty heroic on his and his team's part. We were able to get him a Bronze Star for that action because literally as those vehicles are hitting those sandbags, he's backing out of it still shooting the last rounds in his belt. The unfortunate thing with that whole situation was there were several civilian casualties that were in these vehicles strolling down this road that went out for about a half mile. Eventually the entire company gets consolidated, but we're starting to get hit from our left flank now from this mosque minaret. Third Platoon is starting to take some casualties. I can't remember how we swapped-1st came in and took my position-I just don't. Things were kind of really confusing. I do remember, because I kept going up and down these stinking stairs of this building where the company commander was on top, the XO and the artillery officer, the forward air controller, they were trying to get us air support, they were trying to get us artillery support. I'm going up there trying to give the XO positions he can shoot with mortars. I tried just all these different things, but I'm so sick and tired of going up and down these stairs. I was just beat. And one instance I get up there and the next thing I know the company commander's saying, hey, we've got to give these guys some support because Warrant Officer Castiglia, he's going to go out and they're going to go rescue all these civilians out there. Now what crazy ... who came up 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bz883z/1029457 |
