| Title |
Harold S. Madsen, Pleasant Grove, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, September 6, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape nos. 530-532 |
| Alternative Title |
Harold S. Madsen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Madsen, Harold S. (Harold Stanley), 1926-2006 |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center; Bahlmann, Benjamin J. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-09-06 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
France; Belgium; Germany; Czechoslovakia |
| Subject |
Madsen, Harold S. (Harold Stanley), 1926-2006--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American |
| Description |
Transcript (85 pages) of an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann with Harold S. Madsen on September 6, 2002. From tape numbers 530, 531, and 532 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Madsen (b. 1926) discusses his childhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was drafted into the army in August 1944 and received basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas. He was shipped to England and crossed the channel in an LST to Le Havre. In January 1945 he was assigned to the 3rd Army, 90th Infantry Division, 359th Infantry Regiment, B, in Belgium. Madsen describes his combat experience and his activities in post-war Europe. Interviewed by Benjamin Bahlmann. 85 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
85 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/s689380j |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029831 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s689380j |
| Title |
Page 10 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029755 |
| OCR Text |
Show HAROLD . MAD EN PT MB R6 2002 ships that had been attacked in Pearl Harbor. So we listened all day all afternoon to these reports. And then the next day, when we went to school-it seems to me it was the next day-we listened to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They gathered the students together in the auditorium, it was junior high school, and we heard him talking about this day of infamy and he then declared war on the Japanese. BB: That would be ... were you a freshman in high school, I guess? HSM: Yes, probably ninth grade in junior high. BB: Right, that's how they did it. Did you know that was going to affect you? I mean, by the time you graduated you knew it was going to affect you? HSM: Oh, we knew immediately it was going to affect us in various ways. And I had wanted to be a pilot. BB: Why' s that? HSM: It was just, you know, young boys want to be firemen and pilots (laughs). BB: Was that pre-war thought? HSM: Pre-war thoughts. BB: Had you been in an airplane? Or had you seen them? HSM: My neighbor, with his brother, had built an airplane. And he took us for a ride in the airplane he had built. And we flew around, over our place, and it was just like a miracle to see all that. BB: How old were you when that happened? HSM: I was probably seventh or eighth grade. BB: He was on the cutting edge of things, building airplanes, I guess. 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s689380j/1029755 |
