| Title |
Max Eugene Harding, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, March 4, 2006: Saving the Legacy tape no. 757 |
| Alternative Title |
Max Eugene Harding, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Harding, Max Eugene, 1925-2012 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2006-03-04 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
New Caledonia; Philippines; Hawaii |
| Subject |
Harding, Max Eugene, 1925-2012--Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Warehouses |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Max Eugene Harding on March 4, 2006. From tape number 757 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Harding (b. 1925) was born in Provo, Utah. He discusses growing up on a farm, and his education. He was drafted in 1943, attended basic training, and was shipped to Noumea, New Caledonia, where he worked in a warehouse. He was also assigned to a post in the Philippines, where he was wounded and evacuated to Guam, then Hawaii. After his recovery he was assigned as an MP in the motor pool. After his discharge in 1945, Harding worked for Sears Roebuck for thirty-five years. 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/s6059j08 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029516 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059j08 |
| Title |
Page 34 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029506 |
| OCR Text |
Show MA EUGENE HARDING R H 4, 2 06 now at Fort Hasey on the Island of Oahu. So I got hold of an th r chaplain wh wa coming by and said, "I'd be ever in your debt if you'd let him know that I m h r . ' H came to see me. Then it wasn't too many days when I happened to see an article in the paper about a chaplain who lost his life at Kahuna Falls on the big Island of Hawaii. It was Chaplain Durham. He was over there with another chaplain and they'd had some LDS nurses go with them on a hike. When they were crossing over the top of the waterfall, he slipped and fell about three hundred feet to his death. Well these people still took good care of me. I never had trouble going to meetings. I had transportation. I wanted to go to that funeral. I got there. I got to meet some more of his family and Crawford Gates and a lot of them have been around here that were in the Days of' 4 7 musical things and some stuff. In fact, he led our LDS Serviceman's Choir that sang at the Malakoa Chapel. I got in the choir there. It's an interesting thing to find people who think and believe like you do. It gives you strength. You know you don't have to be sneaky or watch this or watch the people behind you because they're true and they're loyal. I could run to them today, some of them. Even some of the scouts I've had. They see me on the streets and they want to talk. Well, as I had told you before, when I finally got out of that hospital, they had a work assignment for me. I didn't have enough points from combat or length of service to go home. [Editor's note: At the end of the war, men were discharged according to a point system. A man needed so many points to be eligible for discharge. He got points for length of service, time overseas, time in combat, medals or wounds received, number of dependents, etc.] So I was going to go over. .. did I show you on the back of that letter? BEC: Yes, you did. 34 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6059j08/1029506 |
