| Title |
Mark Douglas Lamb, Ogden, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, August 20, 2005: Saving the Legacy tape no. 735 |
| Alternative Title |
Mark Douglas Lamb, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Lamb, Mark Douglas, 1956- |
| Contributor |
Erickson, Winston P., 1943-; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2005-08-20 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Crete; Panama |
| Subject |
Lamb, Mark Douglas, 1956- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; United States--Air Force--Biography; Panama--History--American Invasion, 1989--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Veterinarians; Food inspection; Operation Just Cause |
| Description |
Transcript (39 pages) of an interview by Winston P. Erickson with Mark Douglas Lamb on August 20, 2005. From tape number 735 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Mr. Lamb was born on September 24, 1956, in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. He discusses his schooling and growing up years. He joined the Air Force in December 1974 and took basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. He received veterinary technician training at Shepherd Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas for 26 weeks. He was then sent to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas, first as a food inspector, later as facilities inspector, and finally caring for small animals. He was then sent to Iraklion Air Station on Crete for 2 years as a master sergeant caring for animals. From there, he was sent to Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, Texas, where he switched to human care. He served in Panama with the 24th Medical Group and was on duty during Operation Just Cause to depose Manuel Noriega. His final assignment was at Hill AFB as superintendent of the aerospace medicine squadron. He ending rank was as Master Sergeant. Interviewed by Winston P. Erickson. 39 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
39 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/s66m58wf |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; Airmen; American Invasion of Panama (1989) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030096 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m58wf |
| Title |
Page 13 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1030079 |
| OCR Text |
Show MAR: an Angelo had eighty-thousand people. o it was a good- iz d t wn. WIN: So there were movies and entertainment to be found in an Angel . MAR: I got involved in intermural sports and a lot of stuff when I got there. I play d a lot of softball, football, bowling, golf and all those kinds of things. WIN: It sounds almost like a country club. MAR: Yes, pretty much. Then I moved to facilities inspections, like the public health department, where we'd go check restaurants and things like that. That was another part of my work and I also did small animal care. We ran an animal clinic for pets. WIN: So was this all at the same time or were these successive duties? MAR: We would usually rotate them about. They have us one place or another for about four months and rotate us through them. WIN: Did you enjoy that? MAR: I did. I loved it. WIN: Did you serve there the whole time you were in the military? MAR: No, no. I met my wife there, just after I got there. We got married in 1976. Karen Benstrom. Her dad was a retired chief master sergeant in the Air Force. So she was an Air Force brat. She was down living with her sister while her sister's husband, her brother-in-law, was in Thailand. He was also Air Force. I met her and we wound up getting married. Then we went to Iraklion Air Station, Crete, Greece. [Editor 's note: Iraklion Air Station was a non-flying United States Air Force facility located ten miles east of the city of Iraklion in the village of Gournes, in the north central section of the Greek island of Crete. The base, established in 1954, was closed in 1993.] It's an island in the middle of the Mediterranean. 13 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m58wf/1030079 |
