| Title |
Floyd H. Hogan, Bountiful, Utah: an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann, September 27, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 603 |
| Alternative Title |
Floyd H. Hogan, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Hogan, Floyd H., 1917-2012 |
| Contributor |
Bahlmann, Benjamin J.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-09-27 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States; Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Tunisia; Italy; England, United Kingdom; France; Netherlands |
| Subject |
Hogan, Floyd H., 1917-2012--Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy--Personal narratives, American; World War, Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944--Personal narratives, American; 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Southern--Personal narratives, American; United States--Navy |
| Keywords |
Truck driving; Saliors; Destroyer (Ship); Electricians; Army Air Corps; Kairouan; D-Day; Operation Market Garden; Paratroopers; Flight instructors |
| Description |
Transcript (122 pages) of an interview by Benjamin J. Bahlmann with Floyd H. Hogan on September 27, 2002. From tape number 603 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Hogan (b. 1917) was in Woods Cross, Utah. He discusses farming, family, growing up years, the Depression, schooling and jobs. He joined the Navy in the fall of 1935 and received basic training at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He was assigned to the USS Borie and achieved 3rd class petty officer in fire control. Assigned to the USS Lawrence for decommissioning. Finished his 4-year service on the USS Winslow until discharged. He returned to Salt Lake City and worked for Western Electric until January 20, 1942 when he joined the Army Air Corps. He first was sent to Mesa, Arizona, then Oxnard, California, for Primary training in Stearmans. He continued at Merced, California, for basic, flying BT-13s, and took advanced training in Stockton, California, flying T-6s. He was sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, to check out on C-47s and was then assigned to the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron at Pope Field. He joined the 314th Troop Carrier Group and was ordered overseas, where he was based in Kairouan, Tunisia, ferrying gliders. He participated in Husky One into Sicily, then moved to England to prepare for the D-Day Invasion. He describes his activities and experiences in and out of combat. He participated in Market Garden before returning to the States in December 1944. He was assigned to Stockton, California, as an instructor and was discharged in the summer of 1945. Mr. Hogan stayed in the Reserves and reapplied for his commission in 1947. He was assigned to Hill Field as chief of maintenance and retired as a lieutenant colonel with more than thirty years of service. Interviewed by Benjamin J. Bahlmann. 122 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
122 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/s6b29xct |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American; Arnhem, Battle of (Netherlands : 1944) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1031281 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b29xct |
| Title |
Page 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1031174 |
| OCR Text |
Show FLOYD H. HOGAN 21 PT B 2002 class petty officer. After I made third class petty officer a while why I wa s nt to a different destroyer, the 250, the Lawrence, USS Lawrence in San Diego Naval Destroyer base and put that ship out of commission. I was the fire control man. I had to dismantle all the fire control equipment that could be and put grease on it to preserve it. So I spent about, oh, I think at least six months or more there. BJB: That was decommissioning the Lawrence? FHH: Decommissioning the USS Lawrence. BJB: Where was that at? FHH: San Diego Naval Destroyer base, which doesn't exist anymore. It's all called the naval base. I've been down there many times since. I didn't recognize anything. It's all changed. Then I went to a brand new destroyer. These World War II four-stackers were 1,250 tons. I went to the US Winslow, number 359, which was brand new, 1,850 ton destroyer. Our guns aboard the destroyer, the Barie, were open four-inch guns. No turret. The Winslow had turrets. So I became a fire control man on that, on the Winslow, and served my last year and a half, or whatever it was, on the Winslow. BJB: How often did you get to actual practice? FHH: Every year. Every year we'd go out and have gunnery practice. In fact, when we had gunnery practice before I became fire control man, I was the pointer on the gun. I controlled the azimuth of the gun. When I became a fire control man, of course, I controlled the gun directory from the bridge. We also went out and acted as a tow ship for the battleships. We would tow a big target, floating target, I don't know how ... maybe fifty feet by fifty feet, canvas target, on 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b29xct/1031174 |
