| 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 54 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029799 |
| OCR Text |
Show HAROLD . MAD EN EPT MB R 6 2002 surrender. Well, they didn't have to do that but they did. This tank driver cam d wn and there was a beautiful white picket fence. He just straddled the thing and went bling, bling, bling, bling, and just mowed the fence down. It just really made me angry. I said this is idiotic. We're destroying something needlessly. Why is that idiot just destroying? Then he came to a house. Almost every house had a white flag. This house did not. So he drove the tank over and nudged it against the wall of the house until the wall caved in and the roof sagged down and I thought that beast, that idiot. Why is he doing such a senseless thing? BB: You mentioned two things that are kind of related there, like that person, knocking down fences and that and the other people who kind of got into a shell shocked state of things. Even though it may not have happened to you, could you understand it, though? I know you might have been angry, but could you understand someone who panics and runs away or someone who gets over aggressive and gets violent just for ... HSM: Well, it made us temporarily angry. They were trained the way we were and we were trained that if you stand up like this you are a target for small arms fire or for shrapnel and it's pure idiocy, it's suicide. We would hear, occasionally, someone would be killed during this and they'd say, "What happened?" "Well, this fool got up. He wanted to get up in a safer place. So he got up and started to run over to this safer place and they started shelling again and got mowed down with shrapnel." We just knew. We'd see somebody running like that and we would say, "He's lost it." We were probably impatient with him. BB: So even though people are shell shocked? HSM: Well, this shell shocked guy, he was just totally out of it. 53 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s689380j/1029799 |
